Community Relations Specialist

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

We are more than 34000 people in over 30 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 Community Relations Specialist to join our team to support our power business across the United States. The successful candidate will design and manage stakeholder engagement for project and program teams. The position will require a candidate to work collaboratively with a diverse team of specialists and have the capacity to balance varying priorities. Arcadis offers a flexible working environment and follows a hybrid work structure which allows for a combination of both in-office and remote work. Periodic travel will be required (up to 25%).

Role accountabilities:

As a Community Relations Specialist you will lead all facets of stakeholder engagement including preparing community involvement plans per regulatory and client requirements preparing public outreach materials (factsheets posters presentations etc.) facilitating public meetings and community events (in-person and virtual) tracking engagement and adapting methods to help achieve client and project objectives and working to prevent escalation of issues and as needed manage crisis communications. This position will require experience in environmental issues management public relations environmental justice technical writing and public outreach. You will interface with clients regulatory agencies and the public and be responsible for designing/managing project communications. As such this position will require excellent written verbal and visual communications skills.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required qualifications:

Bachelors degree in relevant field such as environmental science environmental policy public relations community planning communications or related

7 years of applicable experience. Associated experience with regulatory agencies and departmental roles with commercial entities may be considered equivalent.

Experience developing and implementing community involvement or public outreach programs

Experience in the environmental field primarily environmental permitting and/or remediation

Proficiency in writing with technical content and for non-technical public audiences

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with utilizing digital tools as part of public outreach including social media website development and video experience

Visual communications capability and experience in developing visual content as part of public outreach tools

Experience in risk communications crisis communications and/or public health communication

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.

Together we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. 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 employer. 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 $79920 - $153180.

Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.

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