Mayor Rick Blangiardi announced Friday that the City and County of Honolulu is currently accepting applications from highly-qualified individuals for the city’s chief resilience officer and executive director of the Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency (CCSR).

That post is charged with advancing the city’s mission to build more resilient communities across Oahu.

Honolulu’s next chief resilience officer will succeed Ben Sullivan, who left the city earlier this month to pursue other career opportunities, a city news release indicates.

“The increasing threats that environmental risks and extreme weather events pose to our island and our state means that the work our Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency does to serve our communities has never been more

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