# Senior Communications and Public Involvement Manager

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Atlanta, GA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Senior Communications and Public Involvement Manager for their Atlanta, GA office. This role involves leading strategic communications and public engagement initiatives, managing client relationships and project teams, and driving business development.

**Client Leadership & Project Delivery**

- Serve as a senior communications and outreach consultant on transportation and infrastructure projects throughout Georgia and the Southeast.

- Lead, oversee, and implement effective communications and public outreach strategies for transportation and infrastructure projects.

- Develop and implement strategic messages that educate the community on project purposes, needs, benefits, and impacts.

- Lead public outreach efforts, including in-person and virtual meetings, workshops, and stakeholder briefings.

- Anticipate, identify, and mitigate community concerns, project risks, and stakeholder issues.

- Manage content development for various communication channels.

- Monitor and evaluate outreach effectiveness using performance metrics.

- Direct the development of project communications materials.

- Coordinate project deliverables and public outreach according to project schedules.

- Interact clearly and concisely with diverse audiences.

**Team Leadership**

- Build strong relationships with technical team members and clients.

- Provide quality assurance for project deliverables.

- Lead, mentor, and develop communications and public involvement staff.

- Manage project teams comprised of communications professionals, technical specialists, graphic designers, and subconsultants.

**Who You Are** **Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Planning, or a related field.

- 10+ years of communications and public involvement experience.

- Demonstrated success leading communications and public involvement programs for major transportation and infrastructure projects in Georgia.

- Proven ability managing client relationships and serving as a trusted advisor to public-sector agencies.

- Experience leading multidisciplinary project teams and overseeing project delivery.

- Superior organizational and time management skills with high attention to detail.

- Outstanding oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

- Previous experience with local elected officials, stakeholders, and media communications.

- Proven ability to develop, edit, and oversee a wide range of communications materials.

- Ability to understand and translate complex, technical information into clear, compelling messaging for diverse audiences.

- Strong organizational, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to help de-escalate and mitigate community concerns.

- Strong computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office, Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

- Ability to work well with the public and interact effectively with all organizational levels.

- Ability to attend public meetings, community events, and project activities beyond standard business hours.

- Knowledge of and project experience working with public agencies in Georgia.

- Established relationships with local public agency staff.

- Candidate must be able to immediately work in the United States on a full-time permanent basis.

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

- Must successfully complete and pass WSP's Motor Vehicle screening.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Demonstrated expertise with communications and public involvement best practices.

- Previous experience supervising, mentoring, and developing staff.

- Experience managing contracts, budgets, scopes, and financial performance.

- Experience leading proposal development efforts and presenting at client interviews.

## Skills

### Required
- communications
- public involvement
- client relationship management
- project team management
- strategic communications
- public outreach
- community relations
- risk mitigation
- crisis communications
- stakeholder management
- content development
- performance metrics analysis
- Microsoft Office
- Teams
- Outlook
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint

### Nice to have
- communications and public involvement best practices
- staff supervision
- mentoring
- contract management
- budget management
- proposal development

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