Public Relations Manager, Water

Public Relations Manager, Water - ( 220002N7 )

**Description**

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that accomplishes operational excellence. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our 25,000 team members in over 400 locations worldwide are vital to making our Company stronger.

**Your Opportunity**

We need a strategic mind. A passionate, senior communicator. A person who thrives on creativity. A trustworthy counselor. Why? Because our communities deserve access to safe, clean, and affordable water and we need you to help tell those stories. Many of the world’s top engineers and scientists come together in our Water business because they view a community’s interaction with water a bit differently—as a single holistic system, rather than unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries. Working throughout the hydrologic cycle, we are delivering sustainable solutions to make sure water is where it should be and available when needed. Our experts guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. Every day, we help communities improve, reuse, and protect this precious resource for future generations.

We are looking for an experienced Public Relations Manager to join our distributed PR team to work directly with our Water business line who knows social media and media relations inside and out. Can you write with the best of them? Thrive in a fast-paced environment? Build and carry out campaign plans? Great You’re the experienced team member we’re looking for.

The North American Water Group at Stantec is comprised of approximately 2,000 staff in over 125 offices. We’re driving advancement in the water industry, but we don’t stop there. We bring the same passion to growing the potential of each professional who joins our Stantec community. As the balance of water becomes increasingly critical, there’s no end to the scope and significance of your work—and where it can take you at Stantec.

**Your Key Responsibilities**

This role requires someone who has serious skills when it comes to PR—a team player who always thinks strategically, can see creative stories and bring them to life, provide counsel to leadership, and respond quickly to shifting priorities.

In this role, you’ll provide direction on media relations, social media strategy, content marketing, issues/crisis management, and reputation management in partnership with practice Marketing & PR/Communications colleagues and leadership. Combining your business savvy and PR genius, you’ll look for creative ways to tell the most critical stories stemming from our Water teams.
- Partnering with Water Marketing colleagues to develop and implement integrated marketing and PR plans that tell the Company’s news and brand story across multiple channels
- Communicating with industry publications to contribute expert articles and blogs, and to seek editorial coverage
- Developing and managing communications initiatives involving news releases, social media outreach, content marketing, research, interviews, media training and spokesperson support, media monitoring and tracking, and other support on special projects and events
- Overseeing media outreach and preparing practice leadership by developing briefing documents; identifying opportunities and issues; and developing relevant remarks, speeches, and talking points for them
- Issues/crisis communications management, in partnership with leadership
- Providing social media and media/crisis communications training for internal groups

**Qualifications**

**Your Capabilities and Credentials**

Demonstrated experience in:

- Professional writing (samples required)
- Campaign planning and facilitation
- Social media strategy and administration
- Crisis communication

Other requirements:

- Detail-oriented and organized, with exceptional prioritization skills
- Ability to effectively balance multiple priorities
- Fundamental understanding of the media landscape (traditional, social)
- Excellent interviewing, written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment, as well as to work autonomously
- Familiarity with photography and video preferred
- Ability to quickly establish credibility with multiple audiences and articulate clearly within tight deadlines
- Strategic mindset and strong business acumen
- Exhibit passion and grit to build a movement and do what it takes to get the work done

**Education and Experience**
- Post-secondary degree in Communications, Public Relations, English, Journalism, or Marketing
- 8-10 years of public relations required experience in corporate or agency preferred.
- This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice._