Community Affairs Manager (Data Center Infrastructure)

Location: Remote within the United States, supporting a Northern U.S. portfolio outside Texas and Arizona. Approximately 30% travel to sites and surrounding communities, primarily in the Chicagoland area, Springfield, IL, Columbus, OH, and Raleigh, NC, with periodic travel to the Dallas headquarters.

Company

hirify.global develops and operates mission-critical data center campuses and related infrastructure.

What you will do

• Develop and execute community outreach and stakeholder engagement strategies throughout due diligence, market entry, development, construction, and operations.
• Build relationships with elected officials, municipal staff, school districts, economic development organizations, community leaders, business groups, and neighboring property owners.
• Support permitting, zoning, entitlement, tax incentive, and economic development initiatives through stakeholder engagement.
• Plan and facilitate public meetings, stakeholder briefings, open houses, and community engagement events.
• Monitor political, regulatory, economic, and community developments and proactively mitigate project and reputational risks.
• Coordinate with development, engineering, construction, legal, operations, marketing, communications, and executive leadership teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in public affairs, communications, government relations, political science, economic development, business, public administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in community affairs, public affairs, government relations, economic development, stakeholder engagement, external affairs, communications, or a related field.
• Experience independently leading stakeholder engagement for complex development, infrastructure, real estate, energy, industrial, or construction projects.
• Working knowledge of zoning, permitting, entitlement, economic development, tax incentives, or related governmental processes.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, judgment, relationship-building, and risk management skills.
• Must be able to travel up to 30% and support assigned Northern U.S. markets outside Texas and Arizona.

Nice to have

• Experience with external communications, media engagement, or public-facing communications.
• Experience representing an organization before public bodies, community groups, or governmental entities.
• Experience with mission-critical infrastructure, data centers, utilities, energy, industrial, or large-scale real estate development projects.
• Media spokesperson experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement with regular travel to project sites and surrounding communities.
• Cross-functional collaboration across development, engineering, construction, legal, operations, communications, and executive leadership.
• Opportunity to support community investments, sponsorships, partnerships, charitable initiatives, and external memberships.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation support in accordance with the ADA and applicable laws.