Staff Public Involvement Specialist

Immediate need for a talented Staff Public Involvement Specialist. This is a 12 months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Albuquerque, NM (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26-29831

Pay Range: $35/hr - $39/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform public involvement, public relations, and community outreach activities for clients’ capital projects.
• Develop and implement public involvement strategies, outreach plans, key messages, and communication materials.
• Coordinate with clients, project managers, technical teams, contractors, and field staff to understand project schedules, activities, and potential public impacts.
• Plan and coordinate public meetings, information sessions, stakeholder briefings, special events, surveys, and other outreach activities, including event logistics.
• Develop and distribute project communications, including fact sheets, brochures, handouts, newsletters, mailers, notices, presentations, website content, social media, videos, and other materials for project audiences.
• Communicate project and construction impacts, including traffic changes, access restrictions, detours, schedule changes, noise, and other potential disruptions.
• Conduct outreach with residents, property owners, businesses, community organizations, government agencies, and other stakeholders.
• Respond to and track public questions, concerns, complaints, and requests and coordinate with project teams to support timely follow-up and resolution.
• Translate technical and project information into clear, easy-to-understand communications for a variety of audiences.
• Participate in government briefings, community meetings, and project presentations to external groups.
• Maintain stakeholder contact lists, outreach records, issue logs, and other project documentation.
• Identify emerging or sensitive community issues and communicate potential concerns to project leadership.
• Meet with clients and project teams to develop key messages, themes, and individual or local outreach approaches.
• Perform other duties as assigned and comply with all applicable policies and standards.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Must have a minimum 4 years of experience in outreach planning, public relations, community outreach and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, community outreach, and ability to translate technical information into easy-to-understand messaging are key.
• Should have knowledge on communication strategies, coordinate public meetings and community events, create clear project communications, address public concerns, and collaborate with clients, project managers, technical teams, contractors, and government agencies.
• Experience and background from Environmental, Construction/Engineering, Energy & Utility, Transmission & Distribution, Oil & Gas, EPC and AEC is preferred.
• Bachelor Degree in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing or a related field from an accredited program. and 4 years strategic communication experience Required OR Master Degree in a related field and 3 years strategic communication experience preference
• Experience related to communication on behalf of engineering or construction projects a plus.
• Media-relations skills and previous experience working with media outlets to develop and deliver key messages and manage content (news, events, crises, etc.)
• Proposal writing experience strongly preferred.
• Experience in developing content for social media and news releases, as well as web design and coding (for both traditional and social media platforms) is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to understand and assist with the management of large-scale permitting and construction projects, and the necessary communications processes associated with such an effort.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Expert analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• High level of attention to detail with ability to perform quality reviews.

Our client is a leading Construction Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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