- Facilitate communication between the stakeholder entities.
- Coordinate and provide liaison activities between the contractor’s team and the issuing entities’ team.
- Prepare grant reports in compliance with EDA and BSTF requirements for review and submission by issuing entities.
- Represent the Coal Country Coalition members at public and professional meetings at the local and regional level at the request and approval of the Coal Country Coalition.
- Identify and monitor critical coal-related activities and communicate those activities to Coalition members via periodic written summaries of the activity.
- Actively participate in key coal industry related meetings as directed and approved by the issuing entities.
- Coordinate and provide liaison activities between the Coal Impact Study contractor and issuing entities, including but not limited to bi-monthly progress review meetings/conference calls between the Contractor’s team and the issuing Entities’ team.
- Coordinate and provide liaison activities among various agencies and organizations in order to assist in the development of economic and workforce development strategies to address potential changes in the coal economy which have the potential to diversify and strengthen the regional economy.
- Work to build new relationships between initial Coalition entities and others who would benefit from the project objectives.
- Prepare meeting agendas, minutes, bi-monthly project updates, EDA grant reports and BSTF grant reports for review by issuing entities.
- Distribute bi-monthly project updates, minutes and other communications to stakeholders throughout the study period.
