Teams at Southwest Strategies LLC

Lead and execute public relations, communications, and stakeholder outreach for transportation and infrastructure clients. Develop messaging, media pitches, social campaigns, collateral, and public engagement events; coordinate with engineering and construction teams; track media and social coverage; support business development; and mentor junior staff. Attend and represent clients at community events and support occasional early mornings, evenings, and weekends.

Lead communications and stakeholder engagement for large transmission and substation programs. Serve as primary client contact, align messaging with engineering/construction/environmental/regulatory milestones, develop outreach and issue-response strategies, mentor junior staff, and track stakeholder-related risks and dependencies.

Support project managers on public communications, community outreach, media relations, and events. Draft press materials and content, manage social media and SEO efforts, coordinate paid campaigns and analytics, maintain stakeholder/media databases, execute outreach and field engagement, support account administration, reporting, and business development.