Mayor Justin Bibb recently celebrated the news that Cleveland landed on the list of 25 municipalities picked for the Bloomberg American Sustainable Cities project. 

The project will embed a small team of people inside City Hall to work on environmental topics like reducing Cleveland’s carbon emissions. That group will be known as the “i-team.”

Don’t mistake the i-team for Fox8’s I-Team, the husband-wife duo of Ed and Peggy Gallek, whose specialty is putting city officials on TV when they’d least like to be. 

Instead, this i-team is the “Cleveland Innovation Team,” and the first task is hiring a director. The team will “unlock creativity from within city governments and the communities they serve,” according to the director job posting. 

One job for the i-team will be helping Cleveland claim its piece of the hundreds of billions of dollars in federal money available for infrastructure projects. Two possible projects include building more energy-efficient housing and investing in electric vehicles, according to a City Hall news release. 

Bibb has been working to burnish his climate credentials as mayor. He chairs the national group Climate Mayors and is expanding electric vehicle charging stations around the city. 

The Sustainable Cities project boasts $200 million in support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable vehicle of billionaire and three-term New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Other winning cities include Akron, St. Louis and Nashville, Tenn.

The i-team director will technically be an employee of Johns Hopkins University, which is home to the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation. The university tapped the Philadelphia-based executive search firm Koya Partners to find candidates. 

Inside City Hall, the director will report to an unnamed “senior government official” and work with the mayor “to ensure the i-team is delivering impactful solutions,” the posting says. 

The job listing doesn’t specify a salary range – a dollar figure that would no doubt be of interest to the other I-Team.