Senior Public Affairs Account Lead – Texas Field

Coover | Goss; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Coover | Goss, a Texas-based public affairs and local engagement firm, is hiring its first senior team member to own client relationships and run engagements in the field. This boots-on-the-ground role requires comfort in county commissioners meetings in rural Texas and strategy calls with corporate clients, and includes mentoring junior staff as the firm scales.

You will carry your own engagements, represent the firm in client meetings, public hearings, and build engagement strategies for

Qualifications

• Eight to ten years in public affairs, community or grassroots engagement, communications, political campaigns, or government relations.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with clients day to day and help lead engagements from strategy through execution.
• Lead local and community engagement on the ground: stakeholder mapping, relationship building, and direct work with elected officials, county and city staff, and community leaders.
• Represent the firm in client meetings, public meetings, and hearings.
• Build engagement strategy for permitting, zoning, and abatement fights, and adapt it as things move.
• Develop community goodwill strategies, plans and facilitate client engagement.
• Produce and oversee sharp written work: assessments, research briefs, stakeholder lists, memos, and client updates.
• Mentor junior staff and help set the standard for how we deliver.

Skills

Public affairs

Community engagement

Grassroots engagement

Communications

Political campaigns

Government relations

Texas politics

Strong writer

Job description

Coover | Goss, a Texas-based public affairs and local engagement firm, is hiring its first senior team member to own client relationships and run engagements in the field. This boots-on-the-ground role requires comfort in county commissioners meetings in rural Texas and strategy calls with corporate clients, and includes mentoring junior staff as the firm scales.

You will carry your own engagements, represent the firm in client meetings, public hearings, and build engagement strategies for