# Early Careers Communications Advisory Services Specialist

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $63,000 - $80,000
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Join the Communications Advisory Services Team at WSP and play a key role in supporting projects and clients with public involvement, outreach, and communications.

The position involves serving as a liaison between projects and the community, coordinating and participating in public meetings and community events, and supporting public involvement tasks to engage with and solicit feedback from the public.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a liaison between projects and the community

- Coordinate and participate in public meetings and community events with community groups, including underrepresented or historically marginalized communities

- Support public involvement tasks to engage with and solicit feedback and input from the public

- Be responsive to public inquiries and escalated stakeholder issues

- Attend external project, agency, and community meetings to support public involvement objectives

- Assist with developing strategic messages that educate the community on the purpose, need, benefits, and perceived impacts of projects and programs

- Work closely with project teams on communications alignment with client priorities and program messaging

- Research and write content for a variety of communication channels, including websites, social media, talking points, presentations, marketing materials, and media notifications

- Collaborate with creative professionals on development of visuals, including graphics, website development, video, and photography

- Research and develop responses to a variety of media requests in a timely manner

- Monitor, track, and escalate media coverage of project issues

- Analyze the effectiveness of outreach campaigns, including website and social media content

- Manage a community outreach database and provide regular reporting and updates

- Interact in a clear and approachable manner with a variety of diverse audiences

- Perform other duties as assigned or required by WSP USA Inc. and our clients

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Communications/Public Relations, Marketing, Journalism, English, Urban Planning or a related field

- 0-1 years of experience in communications and/or outreach, including volunteer work, academic programs, community service, customer service, or a related field

- Interest in community outreach, public programs, and infrastructure projects

- Ability to work occasionally at events, including those on nights and weekends

- Strong oral and written communication skills

- Excellent organizational, time management, and creative skills

- High attention to detail; proofreading skills

- Deadline-driven with the ability to multitask and adapt in a fast-paced environment

- Ability to work effectively with teams and adapt to changing priorities, project needs, or conditions

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

- Willingness to learn and execute stakeholder management using software tools

- Enthusiasm for connecting with people across different communities, lived experiences, or perspectives

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage

- Retirement savings

- Paid sick leave

- Paid vacation

- Paid parental leave

- Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings

Compensation: $63,000 - $80,000

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## Skills

### Required
- communications
- public relations
- marketing
- journalism
- urban planning
- community outreach
- public speaking
- Microsoft Office

### Nice to have
- social media
- Spanish
- Vietnamese
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Amharic
- Somali
- Hindi
- Korean
- Tagalog
- Russian
- Ukrainian

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