Job Description\n\n To solve complex challenges, you need to challenge the status-quo.\n \nAt GHD Advisory we are invested in creating sustainable commercial outcomes with clients driving change in water, energy and urbanization. \n \nJoin a team committed to solving complex challenges across the value chain, from capital deployment to asset management, enabling resilience, growth and sustainability. \n \nTogether, we'll help create a future for generations to come.\n \nWho are we looking for? \nGHD is seeking a Creative Services Specialist to join our Business Advisory team. This position can be located in California (other GHD focus areas considered). In this role, you will lead the creative process from concept through execution for communications deliverables tied to public engagement, community outreach, stakeholder presentations, project branding, digital/social campaigns, and print collateral. You'll develop and maintain visual and verbal brand guidelines that reflect client project goals and public-engagement ethos, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints.\n \nWorking closely with GHD's project teams, clients, and vendors, you'll manage multiple concurrent creative projects, oversee multi-channel assets (presentation decks, infographics, renderings, event graphics, signage, social/digital content, video/animation, and print materials), and coordinate with internal/multi-disciplinary teams to foster collaboration and creative excellence. You'll also manage and develop project websites using off-the-shelf platforms, ensuring engaging and accessible digital experiences for stakeholder engagement. Additionally, you'll use data and insights to evaluate communications performance, design engagement survey tools, track KPIs, and recommend improvements for future outreach efforts.\n \nA key aspect of this role involves ensuring accessibility and inclusion, coordinating production of multilingual materials and applying working knowledge of ADA and Section 508 compliance standards to ensure inclusive communication and design practices across platforms and communities.\n \nIf you're passionate about transforming infrastructure systems through strategic design and empowering clients to achieve their objectives, we invite you to bring your expertise to GHD and help shape the future of advisory excellence.\n \nOur Hybrid Work Model: Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.\n \nResponsibilities\n \n \n * Creative Campaign Leadership: Lead the creative process from concept through execution for communications deliverables tied to public engagement, community outreach, stakeholder presentations, project branding, digital/social campaigns, and print collateral. \n * Multi-Channel Asset Management: Oversee creative assets across channels including presentation decks, infographics, renderings, event graphics, signage, social/digital content, website management, video/animation (where applicable), and print materials. \n * Project Management: Manage multiple concurrent creative projects, prioritize workflow, track budgets, and ensure timely delivery and quality control of materials. \n * Stakeholder Engagement: Assist with stakeholder engagement by arranging actions, meetings, events, and supporting materials to promote stakeholder understanding and commitment. \n * Data Collection and Analysis: Collate and analyze data using preset tools, methods, and formats. Involves working independently. \n * Content Creation: Collate and summarize information for use in developing content and write first drafts of straightforward content for print or websites. \n * Document Preparation: Organize and prepare complex documents using a variety of applications for technology devices, such as standard office software. Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for special reports. \n * Public/Government Relations Campaign Management: Deliver required outcomes by coordinating activities of subcontractors and suppliers; act as a primary point of contact for them while working within an established contract to deliver successful public relations and government relations campaigns. \n * Operational Compliance: Identify, within the team, instances of noncompliance with the organization's policies and procedures and/or relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, reporting these instances and escalating issues as appropriate. \n * Personal Capability Building: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media. \n * Information and Business Advice: Resolve queries from internal or external customers or suppliers by providing information on complex processes and the related policies, referring issues to others where necessary for interpretation of policy. \n * Public/Government Relations Campaign Planning: Develop tactical public relations campaigns planning to assist in the achievement of public relations goals. \n * External Communications: Help others get the most out of external communications systems by offering support and advice. \n * Client & Customer Management (External): Help senior colleagues manage client and customer relationships by using relevant sales or client systems. \nEducation\n \n \n * Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Communications, Marketing, or equivalent experience. \nExperience\n \n \n * 3 to 7 years of progressive experience in creative services, marketing communications or engagement roles, ideally within the AEC, infrastructure or public-sector context. \n * Proficiency with design/production tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft 365e, presentation software, digital/social platforms); familiarity with emerging visualization/engagement tools for public meetings a plus. \n * Demonstrated portfolio of creative work across digital, print and event/media channels, especially in public or stakeholder-facing engagements. \n * Self-starter and strong organizational skills: able to lead through ambiguity, manage budgets/timelines, coordinate across disciplines, deliver high-quality work under deadlines. \n * Excellent visual design sensibility, storytelling ability and communication skills (written, verbal, presentation). \n * Experience in community/public-engagement or stakeholder communications within AEC, infrastructure or buil To view the full job description please use the link below. https://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=YmJnZW5lcmljLjIwNDY4LjEyMjQ4QGdoZGNvbXAuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t
