Public Involvement Community Outreach

• Community Outreach Specialist Public Involvement

• This position is responsible for supporting the coordination and implementation of public engagement and involvement programs for infrastructure projects. Assists with the development of communication strategies including materials and digital and print content researches and gathers data and creates and provides project messaging resources to educate the community.
• This role will involve assisting clients with social media assignments and supporting various civil engineering tasks. The ideal candidate will have a passion for public engagement excellent communication skills and experience in managing social media platforms.

• Responsibilities
• Assists in the development and implementation of communication and outreach strategies to educate the public and stakeholders on infrastructure projects. This could include research outreach strategies and best practices.
• Conducts routine investigations and collects data needed for effective communications strategies and/or to fulfill federal regulatory outreach requirements including environmental impact evaluations if applicable.
• Prepares and coordinates dissemination of outreach materials facts and information on project messaging to stakeholders according to the public outreach plan including external agencies associations and news organizations using print periodicals radio social and/or visual communication media.
• Tracks and maintains routine records and reports related to public involvement meetings public hearings and outreach events.
• Drafts speeches create and design presentation materials and/or compose correspondence for use in mailings meetings or other public consumption.
• Responsible for initial fact checking for reports articles and other publications.
• May help coordinate community meetings public forums working groups and other public meetings including scheduling determining location advertising and ensuring proper setup/tear down and relevant collateral materials according to client expectation and project goals and budget.
• May interact with clients to coordinate implementation of communication and outreach programs
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in Political Science Marketing Communications English Journalism or related field
• Assisting with social media (e.g. monitoring social media assisting with strategy and content development) with direction from moreexperienced staff.
• Modifying existing materials and documents using a basic understanding of Adobe (e.g. Photoshop InDesign InCopy) and Microsoft products (specifically proficiency with PowerPoint formatting consistency and editing templates).
• Developing maintaining and updating stakeholder database.
• Researching with direction from senior staff.
• Assisting with public outreach and events information gathering/research venue coordination logistics generating materials staffing) and interacting with clients the public internal partners and others.
• Using basic graphic design skills and following existing style guides.

Compensation Range:

Dont meet every single requirement Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At STV we are fully committed to expanding our culture of diversity and inclusion one that will reflect the clients we serve and the communities we work in so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

STV offers the following benefits Health insurance including an option with a Health Savings Account Dental insurance Vision insurance Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable) Disability insurance Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment 401(k) Plan Retirement Counseling Employee Assistance Program Paid Time Off 16 days) Paid Holidays 8 days) BackUp Dependent Care (up to 10 days per year) Parental Leave (up to 80 hours) Continuing Education Program Professional Licensure and Society Memberships

STV is committed to paying all of its employees in a fair equitable and transparent manner. The listed pay range is STVs goodfaith salary estimate for this position. Please note that the final salary offered for this position may be outside of this published range based on many factors including but not limited to geography education experience and/or certifications.