Community Engagement Manager, Data Centres (Australia)

Anthropic; Friendly Beaches; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Generous vacation and parental leave

Equity donation matching

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Community Engagement Manager in Australia to join our Public Policy team and establish Anthropic as a trusted neighbour from site selection through long-term operations.

The role requires developing a market-specific engagement strategy, building coalitions with councils, agencies, and community groups, and traveling regularly within the region. You will translate technical plans into local benefits and help shape the playbook for future markets.

Qualifications

• Experience in community affairs, public affairs, economic development, government relations, or related field.
• Direct experience engaging with local councils and state governments on infrastructure projects.
• Strong relationship builder with diverse stakeholders and trust.
• Ability to represent a company credibly in public settings (town halls, hearings).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; translate complex plans into plain language.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with local councils, government ministers, agencies, and community groups.
• Develop and execute a community engagement strategy for each market.
• Create external coalitions and host listening sessions delivering local benefits.
• Represent Anthropic in public forums, hearings, and community events.
• Monitor community sentiment and advise internal teams on risks and opportunities.
• Collaborate with Real Estate, Infrastructure, Communications, and Sustainability teams to align community input with project delivery.
• Oversee charitable donations and community investment within markets; manage nonprofit partnerships.
• Coordinate power, water, and land-use questions with Energy and Sustainability teams.
• Build scalable community engagement playbooks for all markets.

Skills

Community relations

Public policy

Stakeholder management

Communication

Travel readiness

Local government liaison

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

Anthropic is building AI systems that will shape the trajectory of one of the most consequential technologies in human history. That work requires physical infrastructure at significant scale, and building that infrastructure the right way means being a real, long-term partner to the communities where we operate.

We are looking for a Community Engagement Manager in Australia to join our Public Policy team and serve as Anthropic's on-the-ground presence in the communities where our data centres are sited, built, and operated. This is not a communications role or a government affairs role, though you will do elements of both. It is a relationship role: your job is to make Anthropic a trusted, visible, and valued neighbour, from the earliest stages of site selection through construction and long-term operations.

You will be the connective tissue between Anthropic's Policy and Infrastructure teams and the local officials, community organisations, economic development partners, and residents who have a stake in what we build. You will surface concerns before they escalated, translate our technical and operational plans into clear local benefits, and build the coalitions that allow us to move quickly and responsibly. Because Anthropic's infrastructure footprint is still early in its growth, you will also help write the playbook: the processes you build in your first markets are the ones we will use as we expand.

You will travel regularly within your region, up to 50% of the time, and occasionally to other Anthropic data centre markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain trusted, sustained relationships with local councils, state government ministers and agencies, regional development organisations, community groups, civic leaders, educational institutions, and workforce partners in the data centre markets you cover
• Develop and execute a community engagement strategy for each of your markets, spanning site selection, pre-development, construction, and ongoing operations
• Build external coalitions, host education and listening sessions, and design local solutions that deliver real benefits to the communities where we operate
• Represent Anthropic in public forums, town halls, planning hearings, community events, and local media
• Monitor community sentiment and local political dynamics, and advise internal teams on risks, opportunities, and the right pace and posture for engagement
• Partner with the Real Estate and Infrastructure team to bring community input into how projects are planned, communicated, and delivered, not just how they are announced
• Work with the Communications team to develop proactive, locally relevant messaging
• Coordinate charitable donations, community investment, and economic development commitments in your markets, including managing not for profit partner relationships
• Partner with the Energy and Sustainability team to explain our approach to environmental stewardship and respond to questions about power, water, and land use
• Build a community engagement playbook and repeatable processes that scale as Anthropic's infrastructure footprint grows

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in community affairs, public affairs, economic development, government relations, local council or state government, or a closely related field
• Direct experience working for or engaging with local councils, both elected councillors and council staff, and state governments on behalf of large infrastructure, construction, energy, or technology projects, with a working understanding of how local politics and community dynamics actually play out
• A skilled relationship and coalition builder who earns trust with a diverse group of stakeholders, and who maintains relationships through difficult conversations
• The ability to represent a company credibly in public settings — town halls, hearings, press interviews
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn a complex operational plan into plain language that a local official or reporter can understand and respond to
• The ability to work independently, get up to speed quickly on complex policy issues, and manage multiple concurrent engagements across different markets without losing track of any of them
• Based in Australia or willing to relocate there, and prepared to travel regularly across the region

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in community engagement specifically on data centre, utility, energy, or large-scale industrial infrastructure projects, or in local government
• Familiarity with land use, zoning, and planning approval processes at the local and regional level
• Experience managing corporate social responsibility programs
• Established relationships with economic development, workforce, or civic organisations in the markets this role covers
• Experience working with real estate, legal, communications, and policy teams at the same time
• A genuine interest in the communities where you work, not just the projects you are managing

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.