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Community Engagement Manager, Data Centres (Australia)

Anthropic· Public Policy
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Hybrid (Sydney, Australia)full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role focused on being Anthropic's on-the-ground presence in Australian data centre communities. Build trusted relationships with local stakeholders, translate plans into local benefits, and develop scalable community engagement playbooks while coordinating with Policy, Infrastructure, Communications, Energy and Sustainability teams.

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 in the data centre markets you cover
  • Develop and execute a community engagement strategy for each of your markets, spanning 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 the communities where we operate
  • Represent Anthropic in public forums, town halls, planning hearings, community events, and local media
  • Monitor community sentiment and local political dynamics, and advise internal teams on risks, opportunities, and the right pace and posture for engagement
  • Partner with the Real Estate and Infrastructure team to bring community input into how projects are planned, communicated, and delivered, not just how they are announced
  • Work with the Communications team to develop proactive, locally relevant messaging
  • Coordinate charitable donations, community investment, and economic development commitments in your markets, including managing not for profit partner relationships
  • Partner with the Energy and Sustainability team to explain our approach to environmental stewardship and respond to questions about power, water, and land use
  • Build a community engagement playbook and repeatable processes that scale as Anthropic's infrastructure footprint grows

Qualifications

  • 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, both elected councillors and council staff, and state governments on behalf of large infrastructure, construction, energy, or technology projects, with a working understanding of how local politics and community dynamics actually play out
  • A skilled relationship and coalition builder who earns trust with a diverse group of stakeholders, and who maintains relationships through difficult conversations
  • The ability to represent a company credibly in public settings — town halls, hearings, press interviews
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn a complex operational plan into plain language that a local official or reporter can understand and respond to
  • The ability to work independently, get up to speed quickly on complex policy issues, and manage multiple concurrent engagements across different markets without losing track of any of them
  • Based in Australia or willing to relocate there, and prepared to travel regularly across the region

Skills

Required:Relationship and coalition buildingPublic speaking and representationStrategic planning and program developmentPolicy translation for non-technical audiences

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space for collaboration
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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