Kearns & West’s Washington DC office seeks a Senior Associate/Facilitator for immediate hire. Kearns & West is a strategic collaboration and communications firm with offices also in Sacramento, CA, San Francisco, CA and Portland, OR.
The Senior Associate/Facilitator will serve as part of a team and will assist with managing and facilitating collaborative processes involving stakeholders from state and federal natural resource and regulatory agencies, tribes, environmental organizations, industry, and local interests. The individual will assist with client relations and development of status reports to clients, will conduct short- and long-term strategic planning to anticipate client issues and address them via current or potential new programs, and will provide status reports to the project lead or principal on progress towards client goals. The individual will also support the firm’s business development for these types of projects.
Criteria for Successful Candidate
- Demonstrated subject matter knowledge in areas related to projects (collaborative processes, renewable energy, water, natural resources, etc.)
- Demonstrated communications skills including clear, effective writing/editing and speaking capabilities.
- Experience developing and executing client programs according to project scope; implementing project work as appropriate (facilitating, training, materials development, reporting, strategy memos, etc.)
- Experience in researching, developing, and writing new idea proposals including project budgets.
- Experience supporting business development, including indentifying, setting up and participating in business development meetings and presentations.
