Description:

• Focus is on strategic planning and advise on managing the organization in a sustainable manner and supporting the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of the community.
• Encompasses natural asset or green infrastructure management, energy efficiency planning, climate change mitigation and adaptation planning, environmental risk assessment and management, social support and public health services, economic development planning, and other sustainability roles in the organization.
• Typically, in a corporate services department, or embedded in a department they service like an AM or infrastructure services department, utility, planning department, social services department, economic development office or similar.

Key AM Responsibilities:

• Support development of AM policies, strategies, and plans, the AM management system, and levels of service.
• Manage engineering-related AM life cycle activities, including project delivery.
• Support AM decision-making and analysis.
• Support risk analysis and management, and community resiliency planning.
• Integrate AM into organizational sustainability policies, strategies, plans, and sustainability practices.

• Develop climate-change mitigation and adaptation strategies for community infrastructure and infrastructure services.
• Assure community infrastructure and infrastructure services support community equity, health, and well-being, and economic diversity and resiliency, now and into the future.
• Manage natural assets.
• Support development and integration of AM and sustainability culture in the organization.

AM Roles:

As described previously, the generalist AM Roles described in the General AM functional area are focused on the whole of AM. The roles making up this and other AM Functional Areas would be specialist AM roles. These specialist AM Roles would be focused on only a portion of AM, as represented by the functional area they are found in. Generally, these roles would include subject matter experts in that functional area, often with backgrounds, skillsets, and experience in the related domain.

As mentioned, the roles are described in the form of a competency profile, including a title, description, key responsibilities, and expected competency proficiency in each of the AM Competencies. Expected competency proficiency is defined utilizing the AMCF Proficiency Scale. These generic roles can be used to assist in describing and assessing some of your organization’s own AM practitioner positions. Use the AM Competency Profile Template to create a customized competency profile with your organization’s AM position’s details.

Remember that these AM Roles might encompass a person’s entire job, or only a portion of that job. Several different people may have a piece of their job devoted to one or more of the AM Roles across one or more AM Functional Areas. Additionally, remember that any of the AM Functional Areas or AM Roles described can be delivered by external service providers or consultants as well.