Strategic Planning & Communications Manager

As a strategic communications manager, you'll plan, design, and execute a variety of strategic planning, public involvement, and communications projects for our clients, working with cities and agencies. You’ll develop new business opportunities and manage existing client relationships. You’ll mentor our team of talented consultants to promote a culture of continuous learning and development. The project manager reports to the area manager.

• Develop and grow relationships to expand our client base in the Puget Sound region through a commitment to quality and service.
• Participate in identifying and winning new business opportunities by working with clients, teaming partners, and internal delivery teams.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams in planning, design, and implementation of public involvement for all sizes of water and transportation projects, including activities such as preparing outreach plans and messaging, providing engagement data analysis and reporting, and facilitating public events and committees.
• Partner with public agencies to design community engagement programs that build awareness and support for public infrastructure—water, wastewater, stormwater, and transportation.
• Mentor and guide mid- to junior-level consultants to deliver high-quality work.

• Minimum fifteen years of experience managing communications efforts for cities and utilities.
• Bachelor's degree in communications, environmental planning, marketing, political science, or other subjects related to public outreach or infrastructure.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• This hybrid job operates between an office environment and a field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones and copy machines. May require occasional exposure to work environments that may include inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements.
• While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.

Salary Range: 130,000 – 160,000