Strategic Community Engagement Lead—Data Centers

Stream Data Centers; El Paso (TX); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Family Leave

Short Term Disability

Long Term Disability

Training & Development

Wellness Resources

Job summary

Stream Data Centers is seeking a Community Engagement Lead to support growth and uphold responsible development in markets where we operate. This role establishes local ownership, stakeholder engagement, and scalable community relations practices across the full asset lifecycle, collaborating with Development, Construction, Operations, Legal, Marketing, Communications, and external partners.

The ideal candidate will be a skilled relationship builder, able to navigate complex community

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years in community engagement or related field.
• Ability to build trust with local officials, community leaders, and residents.
• Strong project-management skills across multiple sites, deadlines, and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including public meeting facilitation.
• Experience maintaining stakeholder data, issue trackers, dashboards, or engagement reports.
• Ability to work a hybrid schedule with in-office days.
• Ability to travel up to 50% within assigned market.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with priority civic and community stakeholders while supporting Development and Operations in managing project-specific relationships with elected officials, government staff, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, workforce boards, schools, colleges, faith leaders, HOAs, adjacent landowners, and other influential stakeholders.
• Develop site-specific stakeholder maps with priority ranking, sentiment baselines, and named relationship owners.
• Assess community dynamics before public disclosure and lead early, plain-language engagement to build understanding, address concerns, and establish trusted channels for accurate information.
• During the acquisition stage, profile prospective communities to assess site-related community risk, informing go/no-go decisions and site strategy ahead of land acquisition and public disclosure.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Public meeting facilitation

Project management

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in community development, public affairs, communications, political science, urban planning, nonprofit management, business

Job description

Stream Data Centers is seeking a Community Engagement Lead to support growth and uphold responsible development in markets where we operate. This role establishes local ownership, stakeholder engagement, and scalable community relations practices across the full asset lifecycle, collaborating with Development, Construction, Operations, Legal, Marketing, Communications, and external partners.

The ideal candidate will be a skilled relationship builder, able to navigate complex community