Responsibilities

• Media Relations: Lead day-to-day media relations, including reporter engagement, media monitoring, response planning, briefing materials, and message development.
• Issues Management: Support sensitive communications matters in close coordination with legal, operations, senior leadership, and outside advisors.
• Complex Communications: Support and guide communications for high-profile, sensitive, or highly complex projects.
• Discretion: Maintain confidentiality and sound judgment when working with sensitive business, client, project, or personnel information.
• Creative Content Generation: Draft and edit compelling external materials, including press materials, statements, talking points, website copy, social content, and project narratives, continually pushing for innovative ways to tell Clark's story.
• Technical Distribution Strategy: Drive the tactical distribution of content by applying a deep technical understanding of digital algorithms, SEO, LLM search behaviors, and platform analytics to ensure maximum visibility.
• Marketing Strategy: Plan and manage Clark’s external marketing strategy across websites, media, social media, advertising, industry platforms, and other public-facing channels, utilizing data and creative insights to continually optimize campaign performance.
• Narrative Building: Serve as a connector between Clark’s business and external audiences, translating company priorities, project milestones, and market activity into highly creative communications opportunities.
• Strategic Planning: Develop external communications and marketing plans that support Clark’s business priorities, reputation, and brand visibility.
• Executive Support: Prepare senior leaders and subject matter experts for media interviews, speaking engagements, panels, and other external opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, marketing, public affairs, English, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in external communications, media relations, public affairs, corporate communications, or a related field.
• Strong writing and editing skills, including experience drafting statements, talking points, media responses, briefing materials, and other public-facing materials.
• Demonstrated creative thinking and technical proficiency in modern content distribution (e.g., SEO, digital analytics, platform algorithms, and emerging tech).
• Experience working directly with reporters and managing media inquiries.
• Ability to turn complex business, technical, and project information into clear, compelling, and creative messages for external audiences.
• Strong judgment, discretion, attention to detail, and ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Comfortable in a hands-on role that requires both strategy and execution.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• Alignment to Clark’s Standards of Excellence: Self-Motivated, Results Oriented, Adaptable, Team Player, Accountable, Ethical, Innovative, Resilient, Builds People / Teams and Followership, Sets Direction and Executes.

Preferred

• Experience in construction, infrastructure, real estate, professional services, government contracting, B2B, or another complex project-based industry.
• Experience with digital communications, social media strategy, website content, brand storytelling, integrated communications campaigns, and data-driven marketing.
• Experience working with agency partners or outside communications advisors.
• Familiarity with industry associations, conferences, trade media, or business/community stakeholder engagement

Benefits

• The benefits include a comprehensive benefits package including health/dental/vision benefits, paid time off, retirement/401k, and Company Contribution plan. Additional benefits include life insurance, commuter benefit, short & long term disability, fitness reimbursement, FSA, tuition reimbursement, back-up daycare, tutoring & family support benefits, EAP/Work-Life assistance, and a holiday contribution program.