Job Description

At DPR, we exist to build great things, including great careers. We’re seeking an experienced communicator who is passionate about being part of a high-performing communications and brand team and about connecting people to a purpose. As part of the team, this role will partner with our Leadership Team and other senior leadership to communicate the organization’s vision, culture, strategy, and key business priorities.

Our ideal candidate will thrive on planning, collaboration and creativity while working to develop, document and drive audience engagement with DPR’s vision and unique Point of View.

A storyteller at heart, you will find new and compelling ways to curate and scale our vision and key strategic messages across our growing, distributed and diverse leadership teams and workforce. Using your proficiency in verbal, written and multi-media communications, you will ensure message relevance and resonance across a variety of employee and external channels. You’ll also collaborate closely with External Communications and Employee Communications colleagues to develop communication frameworks and manage and measure program adoption across the enterprise.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understand and help articulate Executive/Leadership Team’s strategic goals and business objectives in relation to our vision and journey to be a most-admired company
• Consult and counsel leadership on how to engage with leaders/employees around our culture and strategies; execute on resulting tactical communications plan
• Support execution of a communications strategy and plan that helps increase understanding, alignment and engagement among DPR leaders around the company’s key business objectives, including responsibility for developing leadership meeting content
• Coordinate and prepare Leadership Team members for high-profile opportunities; prepare speeches, scripts and presentations as needed
• Support and oversee video production and distribution
• Draft and distribute vision/mission-related thought leadership content
• In collaboration with colleagues, thoughtfully connect vision/mission-related programs to other company initiatives

Qualifications

• 8+ years of communications experience
• Bachelors Degree
• Experience working with executive leadership in a complex organization
• Proven success implementing communications programs for internal and external audiences
• Communications, marketing or journalism background (agency experience a plus)
• AEC industry or professional services experience preferred
• Ever forward mindset (self-initiated, self-driven, self-directed)

Skills and Behaviors

• Strategic and creative thinker
• Excellent written/verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Seamlessly navigate between strategy and execution (can develop high-level strategic plans and counsel and ensure high-quality execution and implementation)
• Translate complex business objectives into meaningful narratives for a range of audiences
• Deliver results under pressure
• Project management and organizational skills
• Consultant and/or agency management
• Confidence navigating a matrix organization to build alignment
• Build strong partnerships and “connecting dots”
• Manage by influence
• Ability to translate complex business objectives into meaningful and creative narratives for a range of audiences
• Ability to work fast under pressure and deliver results

Anticipated pay range: $91,059.00 to $136,589.00. Nothing is more important than your health and wellness. DPR offers a variety of medical, dental, vision and wellness benefits to keep you healthy. Read more about eligibility and available benefits programs for DPR Construction | Benefits.

DPR has been nationally recognized for its strong company culture, based on a well-defined purpose “We Exist to Build Great Things,” and four core values: integrity, enjoyment, uniqueness and ever forward. A flat, title-less organization that empowers people at all levels to make decisions, DPR ranked on FORTUNE’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for five consecutive years. For more information, visit http://www.dpr.com.