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CPA III
California Coastal Commission
Accounting & Finance
San Diego, CA, USA
Posted on Mar 22, 2025
Job Description and Duties
Under direction of the District Manager (CPM), the Coastal Program Analyst III (CPA III) helps to train and supervise a staff of CPA Is and CPA IIs performing a wide array of land use regulatory and planning related tasks. Also, the CPA III personally performs some of the more complex project analysis and report writing activities. The CPA III helps organize and coordinates the coastal development permit (CDP) and appeal work of the planning staff and helps to review planning staff’s work to ensure its accuracy, completeness and consistency with the California Coastal Act, Local Coastal Programs (LCP), and agency-wide standards. The incumbent may also be assigned other District responsibilities such as those related to coordination on local coastal programs (LCPs) and LCP amendments, enforcement, coastal development permits (CDPs), work flow management, records management, etc.
The incumbent regularly meets with applicants and representatives of other federal, state, and local governmental agencies, for the purpose of discussing the environmental impacts and Coastal Act and LCP consistency of development projects within the coastal zone; ensures that CDP and LCP related material assembled for distribution to the Commission is completed according to professional standards and strict time schedules as required by the Coastal Act and the Permit Streamlining Act; answers questions of the general public and other members of the staff concerning Commission programs, procedures and coastal resource issues; makes presentations before groups on the Commission’s activities; and presents to the Commission written and verbal reports on the consistency or inconsistency of proposed projects and LCPs with the provisions of the Coastal Act.
Identifies and analyzes potential environmental justice impacts in projects, and drafts environmental justice, diversity and inclusion provisions in Staff Reports, settlements, or other documents, consistent with the Commission's Environmental Justice Policy. Conducts tribal coordination and consultation for relevant projects, including communicating with and gathering information from tribes, assessing impacts to cultural and tribal resources and drafting findings in Staff Reports, settlements, or other documents, consistent with the Commission’s Tribal Consultation Policy.
The CPA III also makes recommendations to the CPM and DD on policy-related issues and upon ways to increase the effectiveness of the District office; meets with applicants or their representatives when problems arise with staff recommendations; works closely with office support staff to ensure smooth workflow and good relations between analyst staff and office support staff; supervises the preparation of various types of correspondence and reports assigned to analyst staff for completion; and does other work as required to promote the effectiveness of the Commission’s CDP and LCP related activities.
You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.