Job Description
An employer is looking for a Stakeholder Communications Advisor for one of our top Utility clients in the Nation. The Stakeholder Communications Advisor serves as the communications liaison between the Customer Core program and key internal and external stakeholders. This role ensures messaging is clear, aligned, jurisdictionally appropriate, and ready for use with corporate, regulatory, government affairs, customer, operating company, vendor, and executive audiences.
The ideal candidate is an experienced communications professional who can translate complex program information into clear, credible messaging while managing stakeholder expectations in a regulated or highly visible environment.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Partner with Corporate Communications, Regulatory, Government Affairs, Customer Strategy, and Operational Company leaders to align messaging.
- Develop communication plans, stakeholder updates, briefing materials, talking points, and communication toolkits.
- Translate technical and program information into audience-specific communications.
- Support communications related to regulatory filings, customer impacts, advocacy groups, and executive briefings.
- Identify and escalate reputational, regulatory, or stakeholder risks.
- Ensure communications are reviewed, aligned, and approval-ready before release.
- Coordinate vendor-facing communications and support external partner engagement when needed.
Skills and Requirements
- 7+ years of strategic communications, stakeholder engagement, or corporate communications experience.
- Experience supporting regulated industries (utility experience strongly preferred).
- Strong executive presence and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to simplify complex or technical information into clear business messaging.
- Experience developing executive briefings, talking points, and communication plans.
- Strong business judgment with the ability to assess communication and reputation risk.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to influence and collaborate across multiple teams and leadership groups.
- Utility industry experience, particularly supporting large transformation or customer-facing programs.
- Experience working with regulatory filings, commissions, or government affairs teams.
- Executive communications experience, including presentations, speeches, and board-level materials.
- Crisis communications, reputation management, or issue escalation experience.
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.