Public Relations Specialist III: Senior Strategic Communications and Public Involvement Specialist

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Job Description

AECOM's West Region Strategic Communications Group is looking for a Public Relations Specialist III: Senior Strategic Communications and Public Involvement Specialist to assist in public involvement and community engagement.

This will be a hybrid position including a combination of both remote and in-office scheduling. It can be based in Austin, TX; Houston, TX; Dallas, TX or Phoenix, AZ. 

Job Responsibilities: 

• Serving as Public Involvement and/or Communications Task lead on projects with strategic communications needs.
• Communicating directly with client as a lead worker.
• Collaborating with Project Managers and office management staff on projects requiring public involvement and community relations.
• Creating Public Involvement and/or Communications Plans and helping project team strategize on best practices and risk communications.
• Guiding the preparation of documents and materials for use in communications.
• Leading implementation of stakeholder engagement and communication strategies.
• Planning logistics and facilitating public meetings, workshops, open houses, focus groups, pop-ups, stakeholder meetings and other community outreach events, both virtually and in-person, as well as evaluating and selecting venues and vendors.
• Coordinating with other AECOM and client staff to prepare graphic displays and layouts for public information.
• Engaging and informing stakeholders, communities, and residents on public or private projects in-person and/or virtually, or through written materials.
• Exercising sound judgment when communicating with internal and/or external clients or customers.
• Developing presentations for meetings with various stakeholders within a client’s brand guidelines.
• Providing acute attention to detail in the development and tracking of stakeholder communications.
• Managing the drafting of content for e-newsletters, stakeholder communication, fact sheet and exhibit content, and other materials as needed. Providing guidance and QC on materials produced.
• Management and QC of summary support for documentation of stakeholder meetings and public events.
• Assists clients with media outreach as appropriate.
• Other tasks as directed by the client to support public involvement and communications during projects underway in the community.

Minimum Requirements :

• Bachelors Degree in Communications or a related field + 4 years of public relations and/or related communications experience or a demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Experience managing multiple projects with multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Ability to understand technical project information, develop an outreach strategy related to that information, and oversee the tasks within that strategy to execution.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience leading public involvement and communications task on large infrastructure projects
• Experience working in or supporting the construction and/or transportation engineering industry
• Experience working with environmental justice or limited-English proficiency populations performing equitable engagement during community outreach activities.
• Familiarity with the Adobe suite of tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively work with various departments and levels within company.
• Intermediate skills with Microsoft Applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements :

• Bachelors Degree in Communications or a related field + 4 years of public relations and/or related communications experience or a demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Experience ma