Senior Director Of Community Engagement; Remote

Community Engagement Professional

Data Bank is seeking an experienced community engagement professional to lead the company's non-elected stakeholder engagement strategy across established markets, expansion sites, and new market entries. This role owns the relationship between Data Bank and the schools, homeowner associations, sports leagues, chambers of commerce, labor organizations, faith communities, and civic groups that shape how a community experiences a new or growing data center.

The role executes Data Bank's Community Engagement Playbook end to end: building stakeholder maps, running listening tours and open houses, translating community feedback into charitable and volunteer commitments, and sustaining those relationships over time.

This is a highly cross-functional role. The successful candidate will coordinate closely with Data Bank's Construction team on project milestones and site-level impacts, with Corporate Development on the community context of newly acquired sites, and with Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability on aligning local commitments with broader environmental and community priorities. The role reports to the SVP of Marketing and will be expected to operate with a high degree of independent judgment while keeping internal stakeholders aligned.

Data Bank operates in a sector where public sentiment toward new infrastructure can shift quickly and where a small number of vocal opponents can materially affect a project's timeline and reputation. Candidates with direct experience managing community engagement in the face of organized public opposition, in comparable industries such as wireless and telecommunications infrastructure, energy and utilities, or other industrial or power infrastructure development, are strongly preferred.

The role also carries a light regulatory-monitoring responsibility: tracking Data Center Coalition (DCC) communications and meetings and other industry or business groups Data Bank joins, and flagging developments that could affect corporate development, construction, or community engagement strategy to leadership. This is a monitoring and reporting function, not a substitute for a dedicated government affairs role, and does not include outreach to elected or legislative officials.

• Build and maintain detailed non-elected stakeholder maps for each active or prospective Data Bank market, covering schools, homeowner and neighborhood associations, sports leagues, chambers of commerce, organized labor, faith communities, civic clubs, and related organizations.

• Plan and lead listening tours, one-on-one stakeholder meetings, facility open houses, and community update events across all three engagement scenarios described in Data Bank's Community Engagement Playbook: established markets with no expansion planned, established markets undergoing expansion, and new market entries.

• Synthesize stakeholder feedback into documented community needs assessments and use them to guide charitable and volunteer commitments, drawing on Data Bank's activity library and existing local partnerships.

• Own the stakeholder tracking log and feedback intake process for every market, ensuring commitments are tracked to completion and reported back to the community.

• Manage relationships with existing charitable and community partners and identify new partnership opportunities aligned with locally identified needs and available budget.

• Work with the Construction team to understand project timelines, site-level impacts, and hiring plans so engagement materials and open houses reflect accurate, current information.

• Partner with Corporate Development on newly identified sites to begin stakeholder mapping and…