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About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Principal – Management and Funding Consulting to provide strategic leadership across complex client engagements, drive growth, and oversee delivery of high-impact consulting services to public agencies and utilities. This is a senior leadership role responsible for managing multidisciplinary teams, cultivating key client relationships, and advancing Stantec’s funding and advisory practice across California and the Western U.S. The role requires a combination of deep technical expertise, executive-level client engagement, and strong people leadership, with accountability for project performance, client satisfaction, and business development outcomes.

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted advisor to executive-level clients, including city managers, utility directors, and elected officials, on funding strategies, financial planning, and infrastructure investment decisions.
Lead complex, multi-disciplinary engagements, ensuring delivery of high-quality, on-time, and on-budget outcomes.
Provide strategic direction on funding, financial, organizational, and technology consulting services for public agencies and utilities.
Oversee preparation and review of complex financial models, business cases, and grant/loan applications, ensuring technical rigor and alignment with client objectives.
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of consultants, including direct people management, performance development, and career progression.
Foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment across disciplines and geographies.
Provide coaching and quality oversight to ensure consistent excellence in deliverables and client engagement.
Drive business development strategy and execution, including identifying opportunities, cultivating relationships, and leading RFQs/RFPs, interviews, and proposals.
Expand Stantec’s presence with key clients and partners, building long-term, trusted relationships.
Contribute to and help lead the North America Funding Program, including development of frameworks, tools, and market insights.
Position Stantec as a market leader through thought leadership, partnerships, and industry engagement.
Represent Stantec as a senior leader at conferences, workshops, and public forums.
Deliver presentations to boards, councils, and advisory committees on funding strategies and infrastructure planning.
Track and interpret federal and state funding policies and advise clients and internal teams on implications.

Requirements

Deep technical expertise
Executive-level client engagement
Strong people leadership

Skills

Funding strategies
Financial planning
Infrastructure investment decisions
Financial models
Business cases
Grant/loan applications
Thought leadership
Partnerships
Industry engagement
Funding policies

Location

California
Western U.S.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior Principal
Senior leadership

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision plans
Wellness program
Health saving accounts
Flexible spending accounts
401(k) plan
Employee stock purchase program
Life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
Short-term/long-term disability plans
Emergency travel benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Professional membership fee coverage
Paid family leave
Ten paid holidays
Vacation between 10 and 20 days per year
Paid sick leave

About the Company

At Stantec, we design with community in mind. We bring together engineering, environmental sciences, architecture, and consulting to solve complex infrastructure challenges and improve quality of life around the world. We approach infrastructure as an interconnected system—shaped by policy, funding, technology, and people.
Our Management and Technology Consulting (MTC) team is an industry leader in funding, financial, economic, and strategic advisory services for communities and utilities across North America. Join us and help shape resilient infrastructure and sustainable public services at scale.