Community Engagement Project Coordinator

About PRR

PRR is a full-service communications firm that serves the transportation, environment, and health sectors. We provide integrated communications services that help clients make informed decisions and build stronger, more inclusive communities. Our clients include government agencies at the national, state, and local level; nonprofit organizations; and mission-driven private sector clients. Our commitment lies in providing an environment where our team engages with intriguing and challenging projects while integrating their professional aspirations with personal values.

If you're seeking a career with a company that leaves a positive imprint on the environment, human well-being, and the communities our clients serve, PRR welcomes you.

This entry-level position sits within PRR's Environment Division and will primarily support community engagement and communications for water and wastewater infrastructure projects in the Puget Sound region. This role will support project managers in planning and implementing communications and inclusive engagement activities for a variety of water-focused projects.

This is a hybrid position based in our downtown Seattle office. The selected candidate is expected to work from PRR's Seattle office approximately three days per week to start, with in-person community outreach work throughout the Puget Sound region as needed. Many projects involve public meetings, open houses, and community events that take place in the evenings and on weekends, so flexibility to work outside standard business hours on a regular basis is required.

This role also requires travel to project sites, meetings, and events, so a valid driver's license and the ability to drive are required.

We prioritize candidates with demonstrated commitment to social and racial justice and experience supporting successful efforts to reach diverse audiences. Candidates with multilingual skills are encouraged to apply. Also desired: experience and strong interest in water infrastructure, clean water, environmental stewardship, waste management and recycling, or the built environment.

• Support implementation of communications and community engagement plans with strategies and tactics to reach historically underserved populations.
• Support equitable community engagement efforts to meaningfully involve historically underserved communities in decision-making, including people who are Black, people who are Indigenous, and people of color, people with disabilities, people living in poverty, and people who use languages other than English.
• Learn and convey project information and key messaging to the public at in-person events, including evening and weekend meetings, open houses, and community events.
• Maintain a working knowledge of regional and local public events in assigned project areas and coordinate reservations and logistics for participation.
• Plan and staff virtual and in-person meetings, briefings, interviews, and events, including some evening and weekend commitments.
• Coordinate and facilitate in-person door-to-door flyer distribution to property owners or businesses.
• Maintain databases to track contacts, events, and correspondence.
• Draft responses to questions and correspondence from community members.
• Create meeting agendas, take notes, and prepare meeting summaries.
• Research, write, and edit content for newsletters, press releases, fact sheets, informational materials, presentations, summary reports, online open houses, and websites.
• Coordinate with PRR's in-house specialty services, including our Creative Studio on graphic design and video needs, Language Services team on language access needs, and Research Team on demographic analyses and survey design and fielding.

• Support a variety of project teams at once, primarily on water infrastructure projects, including participating in project team meetings and collaborating with cross-disciplinary staff.
• Complete tasks within scope, schedule, and budget for projects.
• Provide regular status updates on assigned tasks to project managers.
• Ensure work is on time, on budget, and on target with objectives.
• Proactively complete tasks and troubleshoot any issues as they arise.
• Develop and manage task or event work plans.
• Coordinate project purchasing, including vendor engagement, tracking, and timely submission of expense documentation.

• Establish and support effective working relationships with PRR's clients.
• Professionally represent clients to the public and key audiences.
• Work to establish trust and respect with community-based organizations and community members.
• Provide responsive and timely information to clients.
• Maintain confidentiality of client information.
• Attend client meetings.

Administrative

• Maintain or exceed a 90% billable utilization goal. This means 36 out of 40 hours per week are spent on billable client work.
• Complete timesheets…