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Community Engagement Manager, Data Centers (Virginia & West Virginia)

Anthropic· Public Policy
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Hybrid (Virginia or West Virginia)$265k - $295kFull-timePosted 6d ago

About the role

On-the-ground community liaison for Anthropic's data center development in Virginia and West Virginia. Builds trust with local officials, communities, and partners; translates plans into local benefits; develops scalable engagement playbooks while coordinating with Policy, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Communications, Energy and Sustainability teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain trusted, sustained relationships with Virginia boards of supervisors, city and town councils, planning commissions, West Virginia county commissions and municipal officials, state economic development agencies, community groups, civic leaders, educational institutions, and workforce partners in the Virginia and West Virginia data center 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
  • Work with the Communications team to develop proactive, locally relevant messaging
  • Coordinate charitable giving, community investment, and economic development commitments in your markets, including managing nonprofit partner relationships
  • Partner with the Energy and Sustainability team to explain our approach to environmental stewardship and respond to questions about power, water, noise, transmission, 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 or state government, or a closely related field
  • Direct experience working for or engaging with local governments and a broad set of community stakeholders 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, including town halls, hearings, and 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 Virginia or West Virginia or willing to relocate to one of them, and prepared to travel regularly across both states

Skills

Required:Relationship building and coalition managementPublic speaking and representationStrategic planning and program development

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, office space for collaboration
Last updated Oct 21, 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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