What are the responsibilities and job description for the Community Outreach Specialist position at EXP?
At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.
Are you ready to design your future?
Be our next Community Outreach Specialist
EXP US Services is seeking a Community Outreach Specialist to join our Fort Myers, FL team. The ideal candidate is an outgoing person experienced in communications and/or marketing; customer-service focus is required. Someone who will thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic organization.
Your work environment at EXP
The Community Outreach Specialist is responsible for assisting in developing and executing community awareness plans, including communicating with internal customers, community members, media, and elected officials. Assists in addressing and resolving public concerns related to construction projects.
What a day at EXP has in store for you
- Write content to inform the public about project benefits, activities, and impacts.
- Plan and implement public meetings and special events.
- Provide content for the project’s Social Media accounts.
- Develop strategic alliances and partnerships.
- Able to work in a constantly evolving, confidential environment, and to travel by
use of a vehicle to multiple locations. - Work with the Creative Team to help produce collateral materials including,
- PowerPoint presentations, project flyers, video clippings, and press releases.
- Coordinate internal and external information-sharing and communication with
stakeholders and community-based organizations. - Responsive to community questions and concerns.
- Responsible for collaborating closely with teams and on individual projects, often
multiple projects at one time while adhering to government communications
protocols and other requirements.
What your experience looks like
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Strong experience with Microsoft programs (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Talent for understanding, simplifying and effectively communicating complex information to diverse audiences.
- Ability to perform responsibilities with a significant degree of independence, initiative, creativity, and expert judgement.
- Strong problem solving, critical thinking and organizational skills.
- Deadline and detail oriented.
- Familiarity with digital communications, including websites, social media, signage, direct mail campaigns and graphic design.
- Willingness to travel to project locations.
- Bilingual (Eng/Spa) is a plus but not necessary
