Director – Public Affairs
TeraWatt Infrastructure
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $195,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead Terawatt’s local and community affairs across targeted cities and counties, ensuring constructive engagement with residents, civic leaders, and local stakeholders to support project delivery, entitlements, and operational success.
- Serve as the primary representative for Terawatt at public meetings, community events, and other local forums.
- Monitor local political, regulatory, and social developments that may impact EV charging projects and proactively advise leadership on risks, opportunities, and strategic engagement.
- Create materials such as talking points, community presentations, fact sheets, and public outreach communications tailored to local stakeholders.
- Develop repeatable frameworks, playbooks, and processes for local community engagement and issue management.
Requirements
- 7-10+ years of experience in public affairs, government relations, political strategy, or public policy, with a proven record of driving outcomes across city, county, and state levels.
- Demonstrated success building and managing relationships with elected officials, agency staff, community leaders, and other key stakeholders, particularly in complex or politically sensitive environments.
- Experience navigating local government processes—including permitting, zoning, entitlements, legislative tracking, and policy analysis—to assess risks, shape engagement strategies, and support project delivery.
- Strong strategic communications capability, including preparing briefing materials, talking points, public statements, community presentations, and representing an organization in public forums or neighborhood meetings.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional coordination with teams such as legal, communications, and development, translating political, regulatory, and community insights into actionable recommendations for the business.
- Excellent judgment, diplomacy, and discretion when handling sensitive or high-visibility local issues.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable engaging with senior leaders and diverse community audiences.
- Highly organized, proactive, and able to manage multiple concurrent issues in fast-moving environments.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Performance-based incentives
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
public affairsgovernment relationspolitical strategypublic policypermittingzoningentitlementslegislative trackingpolicy analysisstrategic communications
Soft skills
relationship managementstrategic engagementcross-functional coordinationjudgmentdiplomacydiscretionwritten communicationverbal communicationorganizational skillsproactivity