What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for participating in the coordination and implementation of public engagement and involvement programs for infrastructure projects. This position plays a role in the development of communication strategies including materials, and digital and print content. Researches, gathers data, and creates project messaging resources to educate the community. This position will also participate in the State legislative and governmental affairs working with elected officials and government relation consultants.

What You'll Do:

• Develops and helps implement effective dissemination of outreach materials, facts and information on project messaging and supports client activities to stakeholders according to the public outreach plan including external agencies, associations, and news organizations using print, periodicals, radio, social and/or visual communication media.
• Reviews and refines records and reports related to public involvement meetings, forums and public hearings as well as tracks social engagement and other digital strategies as needed.
• Drafts speeches, creates and designs presentation materials, prepares remarks, briefing documents and/or composes correspondence for use in mailings, meetings, workshops and other public events.
• Responsible for initial fact checking for reports, articles, and other publications.
• Develops and implements digital strategies for use on web-based communications, including but not limited to websites and social channels.
• Helps develop key performance indicators (KPIs) and reviews draft reports to indicate a campaign's milestones.
• Supports coordination efforts for public meetings and engagements to best support outreach and initiative goals.
• Interacts with clients to coordinate implementation of communication programs and goals.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Political Science, Marketing, Communications, English, Journalism or related field and 6 years of relevant experience, or
• In lieu of education, 10 years of relevant experience

What You'll Bring:

• Assisting with social media (e.g., monitoring, content development and assisting with strategy) and providing direction to less-experienced staff.
• Developing materials and documents by using Adobe products (e.g., Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy), and Microsoft products (specifically PowerPoint formatting, consistency, and editing templates) and reviewing work of less-experienced staff.
• Monitoring stakeholder databases, giving direction for updates and creation of new databases.
• Providing direction and guidance for research and disseminating information for review.
• Executing the client plan for events and public outreach, reviewing deliverables, and interacting with clients, the public, internal partners, and others.
• Ensuring materials follow client style guide requirements and making judgment calls on style choices.

What We Prefer:

• Experience performing similar work for or with New Jersey Department of Transportation, New Jersey Transit and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
• Strong relationships with State and local elected officials for the purposes of transportation infrastructure and outreach.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Experience in the transportation field.

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Locations:

Cherry Hill, NJ (Woodbury), Newark, NJ, Parsippany, NJ (Fairfield), Princeton, NJ

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The approximate pay range for New Jersey is $91,710.82 - $156,485.61. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:

HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies.  Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB.  HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.