Sr. Communications Specialist

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Senior Communications Specialist (individual contributor; no direct reports) is responsible for managing and executing key internal and external communication initiatives that align with regional and global strategies. Supporting the USA region, this role will coordinate communication processes, projects and tasks to ensure the consistent delivery of high‑quality, impactful messages.

The primary purpose is to deliver clear, engaging and timely communications by producing content, managing publishing channels, and supporting stakeholder engagement. This role ensures effective dissemination of information across the organization and contributes to corporate communication objectives through planning, measurement and continuous improvement.

Role accountabilities:

• Content Generation
• Create written content for internal bulletins, case studies, press releases, and Firstup (or similar internal communications platform).
• Presentation & Publishing
• Assist in the creation of presentation materials and templates to ensure visual clarity and coherence.
• Manage and publish content across internal channels: EDMs, intranet updates, and SharePoint pages.
• Project Management and Communications
• Facilitate collaboration with various teams to gather and share key organizational updates, ensuring Arcadians are consistently informed through well-crafted internal news, announcements while also assisting in the development of professional presentations and documents to support executive-level communication initiatives.
• Collaborate to enhance Global Business Area (IC + External comms) and country Communications as required (eg. GBA Intranet page, event, case study, thought leadership campaigns).
• Efficiently assign communication tasks to relevant Centers of Excellence, oversee project management processes, and contribute valuable insights and expertise as a core team member.
• Compile baseline data; report on key metrics to measure impact of communications efforts.
• Support development and execution of communications plans; coordinate timelines and deliverables.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 2–5 years in corporate communications, internal communications, or content creation in professional services or infrastructure/environment sectors.
• Strong written communication skills; ability to tailor messages for internal audiences.
• Dependable, self‑driven and organized; prioritizes well under pressure to deliver high‑quality work on time.
• Excellent attention to details and accuracy of work are essential
• A team player who can build strong working relationships with different stakeholders

Aligned to the Arcadis Leadership model we seek Arcadians with a strong fit to our leadership success profile, to build and drive our culture of inclusion, accountability, human-centricity, and sustainability. Successful Arcadians will possess strong learning agility, combined with a balanced mix of being curious, driving success and igniting passion.

Be curious:

• Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others, bringing clients and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and co-creation.
• Have a global, strategic, and future thinking mindset.
• Are digitally-savvy, entrepreneurial and innovative.
• Build organizational networks that are value-adding, engaging, and purposeful.
• Incorporate a human-centric, experimentation-led and continuous learning mindset to lead innovation and transformation.
• Actively engage diverse points of view and manage healthy issues-based conflict.

Drive success:

• Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability, balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery.
• Take ownership for own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others.
• Internalize organizational goals, making them one’s own personal stretch goals.
• Are outcomes focused and tackle challenges head-on.
• Demonstrate commercial acumen in general, and specifically with regards to sustainable solutions.
• Actively shape the future of the organization.

Ignite passion:

• Personally role model own commitment to improving quality of life and putting sustainability at the core.
• Apply an adaptive style to engagement that is culturally sensitive and appeals to the personal needs of others.
• Bring clarity and manage anxiety in others, through clear communication and inspiring storytelling.
• Integrate their work, helping others make the connection between their work and the bigger picture.
• Maintain personal resilience and rebound from setbacks and help others to do the same.
• Build trust through authenticity, demonstrating integrity and courage regarding own convictions.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.