Community Engagement Specialist

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Public Involvement Specialist to support public involvement planning and implementation across Arcadis projects. Were looking for a public outreach and communications professional with 5 to 10 years of applicable experience who can design and manage stakeholder engagement for water engineering and design and environmental projects. These projects may include environmental remediation energy transition built asset design and construction and utility program management. This position requires an engaging creative and collaborative person who has an interest and hands-on experience in issues management public relations environmental justice technical writing and public outreach within a fast-paced and deadline-oriented this role you need to listen to clients regulators and colleagues to clearly understand objectives and then design and manage communications for technical public and other audiences.

Role accountabilities:

Leadership:

In this role you will be expected to design and manage stakeholder engagement and public involvement with programs. This may require the need to infuse equity into engagement programs and manage environmental justice considerations as well as work to prevent escalation of issues and as needed manage crisis communications. You will also be responsible for tracking engagement and adapt methods to help achieve client and project objectives along with managing multidisciplinary teams.

Written Communication:

Written communication skills will be essential in this role as you will be responsible for scope of work and writing community involvement plans per regulatory and client requirements; this may include the design and or creation of public outreach materials (factsheets posters presentations etc.)

Verbal Communication:

The individual in this role must excel in their public speaking as they will be responsible for designing and facilitating public meetings and community events (in-person and virtual). One of the primary responsibilities in this position will be to interface with clients agencies organizations and community members during construction projects.

Qualifications & Experience:

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Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. 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 and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. 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 salary range for this position is $80000 - $130000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.

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