Community Engagement Manager
Multiple U.S. locationsJob$153–224K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
Meta seeks an experienced Community Engagement Manager to advance community development initiatives and maintain relationships across its global data center regions. The role partners with site selection, operations, communications, and public policy teams, building local partnerships and supporting infrastructure development. It also involves community planning, charitable initiatives, external engagement, and project leadership, with domestic and international travel as needed, up to 50%.
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Summary:
Meta Platforms, Inc. designs, builds, and operates some of the most innovative and efficient data centers in the world. Developing, operating and managing the data center infrastructure and facilities the "right" way is synonymous with ensuring high uptime, capacity availability, flexibility and capital and operational cost efficiency in a safe, healthy working environment.Additionally, it is important to us that we play a positive role in the communities in which we operate our data centers.Meta is seeking an experienced individual to join our data center community development team. This role will partner with our site selection, operations, communications, and public policy teams to advance community development initiatives and maintain important relationships in each of our global data center regions.
Required Skills:
Community Engagement Manager Responsibilities:
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Create, maintain, and manage relationships with key stakeholders in the data center community
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This includes local county elected officials, business organizations, non-profit organizations, local school districts, etc
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Partner with internal teams to understand company and infrastructure related goals and initiatives and how to advance them at the local level
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Maintain and optimize Meta's regional data center community development plan
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Build key relationships with local community partners that help alleviate risks locally to advance infrastructure development
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Monitor local community needs and report back to leadership with regular cadence with risks to larger business goals
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Work in partnership with internal teams to develop strategies for community involvement
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Coordinate diligence and strategic planning surrounding charitable activities and other community initiatives
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Manage external relationships through engagements and media interviews in local markets
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Lead various projects related to our data centers as needed
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Travel domestically and internationally as needed (up to 50%)
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
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7+ years of relevant experience in public affairs, nonprofit management, government relations, economic development or public facing engagement
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Bachelor's degree in public relations, communication, external affairs, business field, or equivalent practical experience
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Experience with nonprofit grants, donation, and corporate social responsibility planning
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Experience to communicate and work with highly confidential information
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Experience with communication, organizational and program management skills, with the experience to manage multiple projects and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders
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Experience collaborating and building productive cross-functional and working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
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Experience with local and state policy and legislative processes. Experience with understanding of legislative proceedings and planning at a local level
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
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Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
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Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
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Data center experience
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Public Relations Experience
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Master of Public Administration or Master of Business Administration
Public Compensation:
$153,000/year to $224,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Industry: Internet
Equal Opportunity:
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.
Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 568 open Community Engagement jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$153–224K/yr
- US median$153–224K/yr353 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $189K, is close to the US median midpoint ($189K) — in the middle half of Community Engagement salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 568 open Community Engagement jobs across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Meta (this employer)205 open
- American Red Cross16 open
- Cengage Group13 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Community Engagement postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (421 postings).
- Education
- 94 of the 568 open Community Engagement jobs (17%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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