Hubbell Communications is a public affairs firm with an exclusive focus on building the next generation of sustainable communities. We help clients plan, design, and build the next generation of critical infrastructure.
Our work focuses on the systemic challenges in energy, transportation, housing, and digital connectivity. This puts us at the intersection of community development, land use planning, sustainability, and public-private investment in everything from renewable energy facilities to data centers to the revitalization of our downtown core.
The work we do is about making progress that delivers critical economic benefits and services to make communities better places to live, work, and play – for everyone.
As our Director of Community Engagement + Planning you’ll play a key role in advancing land use planning and development projects. In this role, you will be responsible for helping lead strategic planning, facilitation, coalition-building and management, and public outreach.
This requires you to work seamlessly across a mix of public engagement, public policy, and strategic communications. While a central focus of your expertise will be around community engagement, this role requires you to draw on a range of skills from policy analysis to government relations to developing effective public affairs campaigns.
In this role, you will help clients navigate the community, communications, and political landscape across a diverse portfolio of land use projects, including:
Developing and expanding energy infrastructure and renewable energy facilities, including solar, wind, battery storage, and clean fuels terminals.
Strategic Planning.
You will lead projects from scoping through execution and oversee community engagement, stakeholder outreach, or issue advocacy. This includes developing campaign plans, managing timelines and budgets, and ensuring execution of deliverables at every step in the planning and development process – from navigating Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC) requirements to meeting county and city planning department deadlines.
Community Engagement.
You will design and implement engagement strategies that ensure communities have a voice in shaping projects that affect them. This includes facilitation, stakeholder mapping, and public meeting planning. You will be responsible for helping developers, planners, and builders plan and execute public information meetings, open houses, site tours, and conversations with property owners and neighborhood groups.
Relationship Building.
This role requires you to cultivate and maintain relationships with community leaders, advocacy organizations, and other key stakeholders. You will serve as a trusted voice for both clients and communities, helping bridge perspectives and find common ground.
Political Strategy.
While this role is not a lobbying position, you will be comfortable facilitating conversations with elected officials, agency staff, advocacy organizations, and state and local regulatory authorities. When needed, you will help build coalitions and support advocacy efforts that bolster support for projects at the state and local level.
Candidates should have some experience in a consultancy/ agency setting and an understanding of standard agency management practices – including management of client budgeting, reporting, time tracking, contracting, and fiscal planning.
This is a mid-level management position. As such, there is an expectation candidates have strong skills in the following areas:
Writing. You must have excellent writing skills. This means a fluency drafting, revising, and finalizing written content across different formats – including messaging, strategic plans, media materials, reports and analysis briefs, and regular client communications – with minimal oversight. Please note candidates will be asked to provide writing samples and may be asked to complete a short writing exercise.
Public speaking and meeting facilitation. You should be comfortable preparing and delivering presentations to diverse audiences. This includes facilitating client meetings, stakeholder conversations, community meetings, and participating in forums, panels, and public events.
Community engagement. You should have experience designing and implementing engagement strategies that are inclusive, accessible, and responsive to community needs. This includes developing outreach plans, mapping stakeholders, and reporting on input gathered.
Policy analysis.You should be confident with reviewing complex policy and regulatory documents, navigating the siting, permitting, and land use planning regulations in multiple states, and know how to provide developers and builders with strategic recommendations on key milestones for communication, engagement, and advocacy.
Project management. This position requires managing multiple projects simultaneously and keeping teams organized and on track. You should be comfortable providing teams with clear timelines, assigning tasks, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring accountability for deliverables.
The salary range for the role is $110,000 - $145,000 per year. Hubbell offers all full-time employees a leading-edge benefits package, including:
Healthcare and dental coverage
Unlimited paid time-off (plus seven federally recognized holidays)
An annual profit-sharing program
401k/retirement benefits including company match
Hubbell strives to provide more than the basic benefits package to its staff. In addition to our standard compensation and benefits, we also provide our staff with:
Childcare/dependent care assistance
Mobile plan stipends
Mass/alternative transit stipends
A flexible remote work policy
Paid maternity/paternity leave
Two annual “Days of Service” for team community building projects
Hubbell is an equal opportunity employer who celebrates diversity and always strives to create a safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds. We strongly encourage you to apply if you are from a marginalized or underrepresented group. If you feel discouraged because you don’t match every bullet point, we encourage you to reach out and ask to be considered. If you think you will be relentless in learning and growing in a role focused on helping communities build a sustainable future that benefits everyone, we want you to apply.