Job Description

AECOM is seeking a PUBLIC RELATIONS SPECIALIST in Austin, TX. This position is a hybrid position with the requirement to work a minimum of three days from our client's Austin office, with the ability to work remotely for the remainder of the work week. ABOUT AECOM At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise, and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment, and new energy. We're one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world. Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Collaborating with Project Managers on strategies, best practices, and potential risks associated with engaging stakeholders for input on projects.
• Communicating with clients as a lead worker.
• Guiding the preparation of documents and materials for use in communications.
• Leading implementation of stakeholder engagement and communication strategies, including meeting organization and facilitation.
• 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.
• Oversee logistics for public events and meetings as well as evaluating and selecting venues and vendors.
• Develop presentations for meetings with various stakeholders within a client’s brand guidelines.
• Provide acute attention to detail in the development and tracking of stakeholder communications.
• Ability to understand technical project information, develop an outreach strategy related to that information, and oversee the tasks within that strategy to execution.
• 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.
• Other tasks as directed by the client to support public involvement during the construction phase for projects underway in the community.
• Previous Public Involvement/Community Outreach Experience preferred. Ideal candidate would have PI/CE experience with municipalities. Experience with construction-phase projects required for construction-phase focused position. Experience with pre-construction project development required for planning/NEPA/PS&E phase focused position.
• Significant experience managing multiple projects with multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Confidence in ability to manage, delegate, and QC work products from sub-discipline contributors (graphic designers, technical writers, social media content developers, etc.) to ensure that the overarching strategy is maintained, all deadlines are met and all work products meet client standards.
• Managing production-level staff from AECOM, subconsultants and the client.
• Understanding the technical skillsets of contributing staff to determine and assign the best team for a specific strategy or task.

Qualifications

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS :

• Bachelors Degree in Communications or a related field, plus 4 years of public relations experience or demonstrated equivalency and/or education

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :

• 4 years or more of public relations experience
• Experience working in or supporting the construction and/or transportation engineering industry
• Experience working with city governments
• 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

Additional Information

• Sponsorship opportunities for US Employment Authorization are not available
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

HERE, YOU WILL HAVE FREEDOM TO GROW IN A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.