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About the Role
Anthropic is seeking a Community Engagement Manager in Australia to join its Public Policy team. This role focuses on building relationships with local communities where data centres are sited, built, and operated, serving as the on-the-ground presence to make Anthropic a trusted neighbor. The position involves translating technical plans into local benefits and building coalitions for responsible development. The successful candidate will help establish community engagement processes as Anthropic expands.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain trusted, sustained relationships with local councils, state government ministers and agencies, regional development organisations, community groups, civic leaders, educational institutions, and workforce partners.
- Develop and execute a community engagement strategy for each market, covering site selection, pre-development, construction, and ongoing operations.
- Build external coalitions, host education and listening sessions, and design local solutions that deliver real benefits to communities.
- Represent Anthropic in public forums, town halls, planning hearings, community events, and local media.
- Monitor community sentiment and local political dynamics, advising internal teams on risks, opportunities, and engagement strategy.
- Partner with the Real Estate and Infrastructure team to incorporate community input into project planning, communication, and delivery.
- Work with the Communications team to develop proactive, locally relevant messaging.
- Coordinate charitable donations, community investment, and economic development commitments, including managing non-profit partner relationships.
- Partner with the Energy and Sustainability team to explain environmental stewardship and address questions about power, water, and land use.
- Build a community engagement playbook and repeatable processes for scaling as the infrastructure footprint grows.
Requirements
- Experience in community affairs, public affairs, economic development, government relations, local council or state government, or a closely related field.
- Direct experience working for or engaging with local councils (elected councillors and staff) and state governments on large infrastructure, construction, energy, or technology projects.
- Working understanding of local politics and community dynamics.
- Skilled relationship and coalition builder who earns trust with diverse stakeholders and maintains relationships through difficult conversations.
- Ability to represent a company credibly in public settings (town halls, hearings, press interviews).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex operational plans for local officials and media.
- Ability to work independently, quickly grasp complex policy issues, and manage multiple concurrent engagements across different markets.
- Based in Australia or willing to relocate there.
- Prepared to travel regularly across the region.
Skills
- Community engagement
- Public affairs
- Economic development
- Government relations
- Relationship building
- Coalition building
- Public speaking
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Independent work
- Policy analysis
- Project management
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience in community engagement specifically on data centre, utility, energy, or large-scale industrial infrastructure projects, or in local government (preferred)
- Minimum years of experience will correlate with internal job level requirements
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space
About the Company
- Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society.
- The team is a growing group of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders.
- Anthropic believes that high-impact AI research is big science, focusing on large-scale research efforts.
- The company values impact and advancing long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI.
- AI research is viewed as an empirical science.
- The company is highly collaborative, hosting frequent research discussions.
- Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco.
Equal Opportunity
- We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
- Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification.
- Representation is important, and the company strives to include a range of diverse perspectives.
- The company believes AI systems have enormous social and ethical implications, making representation even more important.