External Affairs Manager - Strategic Stakeholder Engagement

Job Summary

Dominion is looking to hire an External Affairs Manager to join the Strategic Stakeholder Engagement team supporting major energy infrastructure projects across Dominion Energy's footprint.  Responsible for development and execution of strategic outreach and stakeholder engagement plans for major energy infrastructure projects across Dominion Energy’s footprint.

Specific job responsibilities include:

• Works in close partnership with internal project teams and Corporate Affairs to ensure meaningful, transparent, and timely engagement with customers, communities, public officials, Tribal Nations (as applicable), regulators, landowners, and other stakeholders to support fair and timely project consideration. 
• Provides strategy across engagement planning, issue management, message alignment, and risk mitigation, while building trusted relationships and enabling project teams to advance permitting, siting, and development objectives. 
• Leads strategic outreach planning for a portfolio of major projects, developing engagement strategies, objectives, stakeholder maps, timelines, and resourcing plans aligned with project milestones.
  Designs and executes engagement programs that create meaningful two-way dialogue (e.g., public meetings, open houses, small-group briefings, listening sessions, landowner outreach, digital engagement, and feedback mechanisms).
• Builds and maintains stakeholder relationships with local governments, community organizations, business leaders, public service commissions/regulators (as appropriate), landowners, NGOs, and other impacted parties to support understanding and timely issue resolution.
  Identifies and manages stakeholder issues and risks, including emerging concerns, misinformation, and community impacts; develop mitigation and response strategies in collaboration with Corporate Affairs, Legal, Regulatory, Environmental, and project teams.
• Measures and reports engagement effectiveness using qualitative and quantitative indicators; provide regular updates to leadership on sentiment, themes, risks, and recommendations.
• Supports team by mentoring and promoting a high-performing, collaborative team culture focused on integrity, inclusion, and accountability.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

8+ years of related experience.  A Master's degree will count as one year of experience.  A partial year of six months or more experience will be rounded up to one year.

Specific knowledge, skills, abilities and experience:

• Experience in negotiation, consensus building, policy writing, policy analysis, and public speaking.
  Demonstrated success developing and executing strategic outreach plans
• Experience working in partnering effectively with project teams, Corporate Affairs, Legal, Regulatory, and other internal functions
  Considerable knowledge and understanding of legislative and/or regulatory processes, rules, and protocol of local government.
  Broad knowledge and understanding of company operations, goals, and objectives.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical information into clear, accessible messages for non-technical audiences.
• Excellent analytical, negotiation, and persuasion skills.
• Ability to build relationships and negotiate with the public, local officials, and business leaders.
• Ability to develop and implement strategies that accomplish organization goals and objectives.
• Ability to forecast needs.
• Ability to initiate plans and programs to enhance company image.
• Ability to achieve results and meet deadlines.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities with discipline, sound judgement, and attention to detail.
• Experience supporting large infrastructure projects, including permitting/siting processes and community engagem