Community Engagement Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement customized community outreach, public education, and stakeholder management strategies throughout the clean energy and power-infrastructure asset lifecycles.

• Lead a committed team of Community Engagement Professionals, setting operational standards, providing direct mentorship, and outlining clear career pathways.

• Employ stakeholder analysis and mapping tools to assess social risks, community sentiments, and local impacts during the initial project siting phase.

• Foster constructive, long-lasting relationships with municipal and county officials, agricultural leaders, school boards, and rural community stakeholders.

• Represent Intersect with authenticity and openness during public hearings, town halls, community workshops, and industry forums.

• Oversee local community investment projects and economic development agreements to enhance tangible benefits for the community.

• Collaborate continuously with internal Development, Permitting, Legal, and Policy teams to ensure community messaging aligns with project execution timelines.

• Convert local community insights and policy nuances into actionable intelligence for executive and project development decision-making.

• Proactively identify and address local regulatory, social, and reputational risks that may affect project delivery or long-term operations.

• Guide community engagement strategies from initial siting through to long-term operations.

• Enhance trust, transparency, and collaboration within communities where large-scale power and infrastructure projects are established and managed.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in public affairs, communications, environmental studies, or a related field.

• Over 8 years of experience in public affairs, communications, or community engagement within utility-scale power, energy infrastructure, or heavy civil development.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience managing direct reports.

• Proven success in developing and leading high-performing external affairs teams.

• Demonstrated experience with navigating projects in Texas.

• Strong understanding of rural community dynamics, agricultural priorities, and local government frameworks.

• Proficient in stakeholder analysis and mapping tools to evaluate siting, risk profiles, and local impacts.

• Empathetic, highly collaborative, and audience-sensitive communication abilities.

• Capacity to build trust across diverse political and cultural landscapes.

• Alignment with Intersect’s core values of Equity, Humility, Authenticity, Long-run Value, and prioritizing people.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity Grant, providing you with a substantial stake in our parent company.

• Complete premium coverage for you and your dependents on medical, dental, and vision plans.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Two company-wide breaks (Fourth of July & end of year).

• Up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, in addition to 6 extra weeks for birth parents.

• Access to family planning and family care support through Carrot and Maven.

• Complimentary access to Spring Health, including 5 free therapy and psychiatry sessions.

• Headspace account for mindfulness and meditation through Wellhub+.

• Monthly food stipend of $150.

• Monthly reimbursement of $150 for cell phone and internet expenses.

• Pet insurance allowance.

• Complete home office setup.

• Free access to UrbanSitter with $625 in quarterly company-paid credits.

• ActiveHero.

• One Medical.

• Fully flexible workplace.

• Team Week experiences four times a year.