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Communications Specialist
Hazen and Sawyer
San Diego, CA (Hybrid)Full time$60K/yr – $80K/yr
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Communications Specialist
San Diego, CA (Hybrid)
$60K/yr – $80K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time
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Job Summary
Own and drive strategic communications for water and environmental projects, turning complex technical content into audience-ready messages, and leading stakeholder engagement and outreach with client coordination.
- Own development of tailored communication plans
- Lead client and stakeholder engagement
- Collaborate with Hazen teams to translate technical issues
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement strategic communication plans and processes that are tailored to the unique demographics, issues, and available resources of clients
- Meet with client representatives to gain understanding of needs and issues of concern
- Engage with Hazen technical teams to understand complex engineering and utility management issues
- Collaborate closely with other Hazen communication team members to share expertise, resources, and insights
- Advise clients on communications strategy and engagement best practices
- Translate complex technical and regulatory information into clear, accurate, audience appropriate messages and how best to deliver those to key audiences
- Identify and analyze stakeholder groups and recommend effective engagement approaches tailored to diverse audiences
- Prepare compelling content tailored to key audiences for use in outreach materials such as fact sheets, presentations, mailers, infographics, web content, and digital engagement tools
- Attend community meetings, client discussions, and other gatherings as needed
- Self-starter with proven aptitude in strategic thinking
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in communications, public outreach, public affairs, community engagement, or stakeholder engagement
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, or a related field experience developing and executing strategic communication efforts tailored to key audiences and issues, using tools and practices relevant to meet defined outcomes
- Strong writing, editing, and message development skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information
- Comfort engaging directly with clients, public agencies, and diverse stakeholders
- Experience working for a water or wastewater agency, or in a consulting agency working with water and wastewater agencies
- Experience working in a consulting agency, or multi-client environment
- Experience supporting infrastructure, environmental, public health, or water related projects
- Familiarity with risk or crisis communications principles
- Experience planning or supporting public meetings and community engagement activities (in person and virtual)
- Experience collaborating with designers, videographers, or web developers to produce outreach materials
Preferred
- Experience working for a water or wastewater agency, or in a consulting agency working with water and wastewater agencies
- Experience working in a consulting agency, or multi-client environment
- Experience supporting infrastructure, environmental, public health, or water related projects
- Familiarity with risk or crisis communications principles
- Experience planning or supporting public meetings and community engagement activities (in person and virtual)
- Experience collaborating with designers, videographers, or web developers to produce outreach materials
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, and prescription plans)
- Pre-tax flexible spending plans for medical, dependent care, and transportation
- Short and long-term disability, and employer paid life insurance
- Paid holidays, floating holidays, and paid time off (PTO)
- Employer-contributed 401(k) plan and additional financial planning support
- Professional growth opportunities, including tuition reimbursement, in-house training, and incentives for professional registration and professional organization memberships
- Starting pay range for this position depends on skills, experience, education and geographical location
Hazen and Sawyer
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Since 1951, Hazen and Sawyer has focused on two things: providing safe drinking water and controlling water pollution. Our range of services encompasses the planning, design, and construction management of water and wastewater-related projects – from clean water treatment, storage, and distribution to wastewater and stormwater collection, treatment, and reuse.Our focus brings us exceptional challenges – such as the largest drinking water UV disinfection installation in the world, upgrade of major wastewater treatment plants to reduce nutrient discharges to sensitive receiving waters, and recharging vital drinking water aquifers with highly-treated wastewater effluent, renewing a valuable resource.Our focus also makes us home to many of the world’s most knowledgeable and experienced environmental engineers and scientists, each seeking a challenging and rewarding career while making an important contribution to the communities in which we work.Our expert process groups contribute to the latest research and determine how to apply the most effective and efficient technologies to engineer solutions to your challenges. Your goals are our goals, and we offer the insight and experience needed to achieve and exceed them.If you have a water engineering challenge, Hazen and Sawyer has your solution.
Founded in 1951
New York, New York, USA
2.1K employees (171 in marketing)
96% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
23.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.8%
Direct
45.3%
Referral
6.2%
Social
0.7%
Paid
1.9%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~2.2K
Marketing Team
Median Tenure
11.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1
Funding
Total Funding
$130.1K
Last Raise
$130.1K
Grant, 14 years ago
Funding History
- Feb 2012Grant • $130.1K