Community Engagement Specialist

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

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Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Public Involvement Specialist to support public involvement planning and implementation across Arcadis projects. We're looking for a public outreach and communications professional with 5 to 10 years of applicable experience who can design and manage stakeholder engagement for water, engineering and design, and environmental projects. These projects may include environmental remediation, energy transition, built asset design and construction, and utility program management.

This position requires an engaging, creative, and collaborative person who has an interest and hands-on experience in issues management, public relations, environmental justice, technical writing, and public outreach within a fast-paced and deadline-oriented workplace. In this role, you need to listen to clients, regulators, and colleagues to clearly understand objectives and then design and manage communications for technical, public, and other audiences.

Role accountabilities:

Leadership:

In this role you will be expected to design and manage stakeholder engagement and public involvement with programs. This may require the need to infuse equity into engagement programs and manage environmental justice considerations as well as work to prevent escalation of issues and, as needed, manage crisis communications. You will also be responsible for tracking engagement and adapt methods to help achieve client and project objectives along with managing multidisciplinary teams.

Written Communication:

Written communication skills will be essential in this role as you will be responsible for scope of work and writing community involvement plans per regulatory and client requirements; this may include the design and or creation of public outreach materials (factsheets, posters, presentations, etc.)

Verbal Communication:

The individual in this role must excel in their public speaking as they will be responsible for designing and facilitating public meetings and community events (in-person and virtual). One of the primary responsibilities in this position will be to interface with clients, agencies, organizations, and community members during construction projects.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field such as environmental science, environmental policy, public relations, community planning, communications, or related

• Experience developing and implementing community involvement or public outreach programs

• Experience leading teams and working in collaboration with scientists, engineers, archaeologists, and other specialists

• Proficiency in developing communications tools and translation of technical content and for non-technical public audiences

• Experience as a facilitator and working in consulting or as a consultant

Preferred Qualifications

• Digital skills in the field, including social media, website development, video experience, and related

• Visual communications capability and/or design sense to suggest and develop visual content when an illustration, chart, figure, map, or similar would enhance a public outreach tool

• Experience in risk communications, crisis communications, and/or public health communications

• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communications skills, applied with clarity and confidence

Key Attributes

• Detail oriented, proactive, and collaborative communications

• Self-motivated, resourceful, and ability to work within diverse teams of communications and technical colleagues in person and virtually across the country

• Ability to respond positively to changing priorities and with high standards of service and excellence

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