Harris & Associates is looking for a creative and strategic Marketing + Communications Specialist to help shape our brand, tell impactful stories, and drive engagement across multiple platforms. Join our fun, dynamic, and high-performing Marketing + Communications team, where your work will contribute to building equitable, resilient, and sustainable communities.
In this role, you will help prepare compelling marketing deliverables to support our firm’s initiatives and client management model. You will coordinate with internal teams to communicate the Harris value proposition, ensuring a consistent message across all marketing materials and channels. You will also assist with internal communications and knowledge management, ensuring employee-owners stay informed, engaged, and have easy access to key resources through Harris’ intranet and other internal communication platforms.Additionally, you will contribute to developing and refining Harris’ brand, creating content that expands our reach with target audiences.
Through successful, multifaceted marketing campaigns, you will help position Harris & Associates as a thought leader, trusted advisor, and a great place to work.
About Harris & Associates
Harris & Associates is a 100% employee-owned company focused on solving today’s complex challenges in planning, finance, environmental compliance, civil engineering, and construction management. Our offices and project sites span the west coast in California and Washington with a staff of over 280 employee-owners. We focus on serving clients in the education, transportation, water, and municipal markets.Harris offers work location flexibility through our Hybrid Work Plan (HWP), allowing employees to work at an approved alternative worksite, such as a home office.
Responsibilities & Duties:
• Work collaboratively with subject matter experts to develop and execute marketing campaigns.• Write and direct compelling copy to tell the Harris story across various mediums (website, social media, email, etc.).• Publish content for the website through a Content Management System (CMS).• Maintain and update Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to input and extract relevant data related to marketing and business development efforts.• Utilize solid project management skills to coordinate across teams and marketing disciplines, developing the right mix of campaign elements to reinforce and improve marketing results.• Work with senior leadership and stakeholders across Harris to develop and implement cohesive communications plans that engage employee-owners.Other duties:• Marketing campaigns: Develop graphics, videos, and imagery for marketing campaigns that conveys Harris’ value propositions and key messages.• Presentation development: develop presentations for industry conferences, internal meetings, and business development initiatives.
Assist in designing visually compelling slides, refining messaging, and ensuring consistency with Harris’ brand and strategic objectives.• Award submissions: promote Harris’ project work through submittal of project awards to various industry organizations.• Internal communications: facilitate employee engagement and knowledge sharing through internal communications and campaigns. Develop executive communications. • Knowledge and database management: Support the team's ability to work efficiently and develop targeted campaigns by maintaining the CRM (HubSpot) database and other records (Deltek Vantagepoint).
Qualifications & Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Marketing, Journalism, English, Communications, Graphic Design, etc.)• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.• Ability to work with diverse stakeholders and include various perspectives to achieve goals.• Manages time and workload independently with a team-oriented approach to completing deadlines.• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) desired.• Experience working with and publishing content via a web Content Management System (CMS), desired, but not required.• Experience using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, such as HubSpot, desired, but not required.
Compensation & Benefits
The salary for this position ranges anywhere between $80k-$100k depending on experience level.We offer competitive salaries and benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Harris & Associates is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an EEO/AA employer. We invite resumes from all interested and qualified candidates including women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities.Harris & Associates is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
