Engagement Lead, CHARM & Disaster Resilience

Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid holidays (12–15)

Professional development

Job summary

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Houston seeks a Community Engagements Lead to plan and execute communications and engagement activities for CHARM products. You will lead a small team, coordinate campaigns, and work with partners to deliver clear, impactful outreach.

The role requires five years of experience in communications and project management, strong writing and presentation skills, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholder-driven projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in communications, public affairs, marketing, project management, or a related field.
• At least five years of professional experience in communications, project management, stakeholder engagement, public outreach, marketing, event coordination, or related work.
• Proven ability to organize and manage projects, coordinate contributors, manage deadlines, and follow work through to completion.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to take initiative and manage multiple projects and changing priorities.
• Strong verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to professionally represent programs and products with partners and stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating events, workshops, conferences, stakeholder engagements, or similar activities.
• Strong writing and editing skills, including the ability to translate technical information into clear communications for different audiences.
• Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams and coordinate work across people with different areas of expertise.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

Responsibilities

• Plans, coordinates, and executes communications and engagement projects supporting CHARM products and initiatives.
• Turns product and program priorities into project plans, schedules, assignments, and deliverables.
• Tracks progress, follows up on outstanding work, and helps resolve issues that could affect deadlines or completion.
• Creates, edits, and coordinates communications materials, including presentations, reports, briefings, web content, announcements, newsletters, outreach materials, marketing collateral, and event materials.
• Works with the content writer, graphic designer, product team, planners, and technical staff to develop clear and accurate written and visual communications for different audiences.
• Plans and coordinates conferences, exhibits, product demonstrations, webinars, stakeholder meetings, and other CHARM engagement opportunities, including event logistics, materials, staffing, procurement, travel, and follow-up.
• This may require transport, set up, and break down of workshop, exhibit, and outreach equipment and materials including displays and presentation/AV equipment.
• Maintains CHARM web and digital content using WordPress or similar platforms and ensures communications follow Texas A&M AgriLife branding and accessibility requirements.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Public outreach

Event coordination

Written communication

Verbal communication

Team collaboration

Content creation

Multimedia coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in communications or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

WordPress

Jira

Confluence

Teams / Outlook

Job description

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Houston seeks a Community Engagements Lead to plan and execute communications and engagement activities for CHARM products. You will lead a small team, coordinate campaigns, and work with partners to deliver clear, impactful outreach.

The role requires five years of experience in communications and project management, strong writing and presentation skills, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholder-driven projects.