Program Strategy and Management

• Manage finances and operations of the department.
• Develop and execute departmental strategic plan, support and direction including an annual budget to guide overall programmatic direction to improve organizational efficiency and impact.
• Management and evaluation of department staff and program-related activities.
• Grant proposal, implementation, management, reporting and tracking.
• Lead on developing annual program evaluations.
• Initiated and conducted a departmental merger of the Design and Advocacy Department and the Technical Services and Research Department in order to create efficiencies and streamline organizational goals using research to inform policy.

Policy Strategy and Implementation

• Strategic policy city-wide initiatives that involve trees in development, regulation and legislative issues.
• Communicate with developers, legislatures and other decision makers to keep the urban forest healthy

• Manage and engage a volunteer group of tree advocates around development, tree preservation and expanding tree canopy throughout the District.

  Technical Services

• Development and implementation of a mobile application and technological upgrades to address structural inadequacies including a new tree tracking application and GIS server to manage tree data in real time.   
• Oversee, conduct and refine: data collection, analysis, mapping, data tracking and related services to assist other departments achieve goals and objectives, and; to assist partners in their efforts as needs dictate.
• Unique scientific content creation for web pages and brochures.
• Translation of scientific expertise for a non-technical audience.

Outreach

• Creation a citizen science program to engage volunteers and further research capacity.
• Creation and implementation of a joint Partnership with Davey Trees to create iTreeLessons.com - a freely available middle school unit aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core.
• Increases outreach, awareness, partnerships and participation through development, implementation, and promotion of online mapping, CT application and web-based tree interaction tools.
• Oversee and implement a biennial research conference with 300 + attendees focused around Livable Communities.

Research

• Oversees existing research and builds organizational portfolio to increase research.  Partners with academic institutions, non-profits, for-profits and others to further organizational mission and operational objectives.
• Oversees annual fellowship competition for researchers in urban forestry.
• Provides data compilation, analysis, report language and related support for all publications.
• Monitors the conditions and extent of DC’s (and metro’s) urban forest through regular aerial and on-ground assessments and works with partners to build regional coordination/cooperation.