Strategic Engagement and Project Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a proven communications specialist to support our growing strategic engagement practice. In this role, you will develop and execute approaches for strategic engagement support including leadership of stakeholder engagement activities, communications planning, facilitation of communications strategies, and creation of public outreach tools and content. Your expertise helps our clients to address their most critical water management needs in ways that build support, alignment, and success for their customers and area.

This role is integrated with our Management Consulting Specialty Practice that supports clients in better serving their customers, communities and the environment through improved communications, strategy development, connected planning, and management support.

You will serve as a key connection between understanding client needs, community values, and the technical solutions BC can offer. In so doing, you will be an industry leader known for helping our clients advance new and innovative initiatives that will move their organizational, water and environmental goals in support of their communities and stakeholders.

Detailed Description

You will work with our client teams and BC’s strategic engagement professionals, project managers, technical staff and client service managers across the firm. Your work will improve public awareness for the critical water, social and environmental investments our clients are leading as well as support stakeholder alignment and frameworks for implementation of communications and engagement strategies. Your work will improve our clients’ service to their communities, customers, partner organizations, elected officials and other stakeholders.

Expectations

• Design and facilitate consensus-building workshops and meetings to develop visions and frameworks for engagement strategy as well as development of project or utility plans, strategies, and goals that support organizational performance and decision making.
• Facilitate development of engagement goals working with internal and external stakeholders to inform direction in support of water management needs.
• Develop tailored and compelling communications plans that consider the unique needs of the endeavor as well as the audiences impacted or intended to be engaged and educated.
• Lead development of effective and resonant content – visual and written – from concept to production in various outputs or multi-media forms. Collaborate with graphic designers to develop compelling, audience-specific, and targeted visual messaging.
• Identify new opportunities with priority clients across multiple areas and support preselection positioning and education of services, scoping and negotiations in support of growth of this area of business.
• Provide responsive and diligent project management meeting BC’s quality standards and keeping projects on budget and schedule.
• Create and lead stakeholder surveys, interviews, and/or focus groups and manage the effective utilization of the input for strategies and product development. Conduct, aggregate, and interpret research on public perception, regulatory trends, funding, and a variety of technical and non-technical client needs.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously ensuring the appropriate level of effort is applied to each project.
• Effectively present new ideas and support alignment of teams through strong communication and presentation development and delivery skills.
• Support internal understanding, skills development and awareness on Management Consulting services and the integration of these services into all technical practice work.
• Support standards development and mentoring of staff in strategic engagement practices and techniques.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• 10 or more years of experience in strategic planning, communications, marketing, public facilitation, or project planning with stakeholder consensus-building and input emphasis. Prior consulting experience a plus.
• Professional degree in Planning, Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or related subject areas.
• Technical and non-technical experience in the water industry a plus.
• Self-starter, results-oriented, and able to work under tight deadlines.
• Proven experience guiding graphics and creative teams in creation of visual communications and approaches for reaching intended audiences.
• Travel as needed to meet client expectations, approximately 20-30% of time.
• Successful project/task management and experience developing new opportunities, a plus.
• Core and robust competencies in presentation development and delivery, writing and editing.

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