Community Engagement Lead
Lead community and public affairs efforts for AI data center development. Build stakeholder relationships, represent the company at public meetings, mitigate opposition and political risks, deploy community benefits, and manage external partners like lobbyists and PR firms.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Represent Fluidstack at town halls, public hearings, planning commission meetings, and community events as the primary external face across active development sites.
- Build and hold relationships across a wide stakeholder matrix: elected officials, city and county staff, utility partners, school districts, workforce development organizations, nonprofits, and trade associations.
- Identify and get ahead of organized opposition before capital is committed, surfacing reputational, regulatory, and political risk in coordination with Development, Legal, and Commercial teams.
- Deploy community benefit commitments, including local hiring programs, educational partnerships, and grants.
- Write communications materials that translate infrastructure complexity into clear narratives for community, government, and executive audiences.
- Manage external partners, including lobbyists, consultants, and PR agencies, across multiple concurrent site campaigns.
Requirements
- Experience as the named external face for a large infrastructure project, fielding opposition at public hearings and building coalitions that got something built.
- Experience managing a stakeholder map with genuine competing interests (elected officials, regulators, community organizations, utilities) and keeping relationships functional under pressure.
- Ability to spot political or reputational risk early and change a project outcome by catching issues before they organize into opposition.
- Strong writing and speaking skills to make complex infrastructure stories accessible to city council members, local nonprofits, and CEOs.
- Direct experience managing lobbyists, PR firms, or political consultants: setting the brief, holding them accountable, and stepping in when needed.
- Comfort with sustained travel and presence at active sites.
Nice-to-Haves
- Hyperscale or AI data center development experience.
- Energy procurement or grid interconnection communications experience.
- Sustainability or environmental permitting narratives experience.
Skills
Stakeholder Management, Public Affairs, Community Engagement, Political Risk Assessment, Communications, Lobbyist Management, Pr Agency Management, Regulatory Navigation, Coalition Building
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