Community Relations Specialist

Arcadis; Highlands Ranch (CO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k)

Paid holidays and PTO

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Arcadis seeks a Community Relations Specialist to design and manage stakeholder engagement for power projects nationwide. You will prepare involvement plans, public outreach materials, and facilitate public meetings while tracking engagement to meet project objectives.

The role requires strong technical writing, experience in environmental matters, and collaboration with clients, regulators, and the public. Up to 25% travel is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as environmental science, policy, or communications.
• Seven years of applicable experience with regulatory agencies or similar entities.
• Experience developing community involvement or public outreach programs.
• Experience in environmental permitting or remediation and strong writing skills for non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder engagement for power projects, including plans and materials.
• Facilitate public meetings and track engagement to meet objectives.
• Interface with clients, regulatory agencies, and the public; manage crisis communications if needed.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Public outreach

Technical writing

Crisis communications

Digital tools usage

Education

Bachelor’s degree in environmental science or related

Tools

Social media tools

Website basics

Video production

Job description

Role description:

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Arcadis is seeking a Community Relations Specialist to join our team to support our power business across the United States. The successful candidate will design and manage stakeholder engagement for project and program teams. The position will require a candidate to work collaboratively with a diverse team of specialists and have the capacity to balance varying priorities. Arcadis offers a flexible working environment and follows a hybrid work structure, which allows for a combination of both in-office and remote work. Periodic travel will be required (up to 25%).

Role accountabilities:

As a Community Relations Specialist, you will lead all facets of stakeholder engagement, including preparing community involvement plans per regulatory and client requirements, preparing public outreach materials (factsheets, posters, presentations, etc.), facilitating public meetings and community events (in-person and virtual), tracking engagement and adapting methods to help achieve client and project objectives, and working to prevent escalation of issues and, as needed, manage crisis communications. This position will require experience in environmental issues management, public relations, environmental justice, technical writing, and public outreach. You will interface with clients, regulatory agencies, and the public, and be responsible for designing/managing project communications. As such, this position will require excellent written, verbal, and visual communications skills.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field such as environmental science, environmental policy, public relations, community planning, communications, or related
• 7 years of applicable experience. Associated experience with regulatory agencies and departmental roles with commercial entities may be considered equivalent.
• Experience developing and implementing community involvement or public outreach programs
• Experience in the environmental field, primarily environmental permitting and/or remediation
• Proficiency in writing with technical content and for non-technical public audiences

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with utilizing digital tools as part of public outreach, including social media, website development, and video experience
• Visual communications capability and experience in developing visual content as part of public outreach tools
• Experience in risk communications, crisis communications, and/or public health communication

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $79,920 - $153,180. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.