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Requisition ID
req1160
Type of Employment
Regular Full-Time Employee
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Job Openings
1
Compensation Range
199,000.00 - 243,000.00
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Compensation Type
Annual Salary
Founded in 1866, San Jose Water Company is an investor owned water company headquartered in Silicon Valley. With a service area of 140 square miles, it is one of the largest and most technically sophisticated urban water system in the United States. We serve over 1 million people with high quality, life sustaining water, with an emphasis on exceptional customer service.
We are actively seeking talented, driven and highly-productive applicants for the position of Director, Government Relations and Public Affairs to join our dynamic team. We offer a challenging and rewarding work environment along with a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package.
Position Overview: The Director, Government Relations and Public Affairs will serve as the President's strategic bridge and advisor across the Company's departments to ensure the Company is best positioned with all relevant public agencies and to advance the Company's standing in the public arena with its public constituencies.
The role supports the President's effort to oversee all aspects of the Company's strategy, advocacy, funding, regulatory clearance, coalitions, communications, and community engagement — as one integrated effort rather than running any single department.
Core Responsibilities
1. Develop Strategic Annual Plans
- Translate the Company's operating and business priorities into a prioritized government agenda, ranked by impact, urgency, feasibility, and return, drawing the facts behind each position from the legal, finance, engineering, operations, and communications teams.
- Develop the path for each priority — legislation, regulation, funding, coalition, or local action — on an annual basis with the President and external consultants.
- Monitor legislation, regulations, budgets, agendas, hearings, and the Company's key relationships, ensuring a deep understanding of the agencies and public officials impacting the Company's initiatives.
- Identify and surface emerging risks, alerting leadership when proactive action is needed.
2. Advocacy, Government Relationships, and Coalitions
- Build and sustain the relationships that carry the Company’s standing with officials, agencies, regulators, and relevant government agencies.
- Educate officials on the Company's operations and public benefit, secure support for target legislation, funding, and permits, and oppose or amend what threatens its operations, finances, or community standing.
- Mobilize third-party support: recruit aligned cities, counties, agencies, business, labor, environmental, and community partners into coalitions, joint letters, and project tours, and address opponents early.
- Identify public funding matched to the Company’s capital, infrastructure, and program needs, and package each project around need, cost, public benefit, urgency, and readiness.
3. Regulatory and Permitting
- Identify and define the legal, regulatory, and permitting barriers to project delivery, working with legal and technical staff.
- Develop and run a strategy to clear each — approval, faster timeline, clearer requirements, or a rule change — engaging agencies early to prevent surprises.
- Escalate when agency delay or ambiguity threatens delivery.
4. Communications, Community, and Public Affairs
- Convert technical engineering and operational detail into plain-language policy narrative, produce the materials that carry it — fact sheets, briefing papers, talking points, testimony, executive summaries — and match each issue to the right messenger and vehicle.
- Coordinate the Company's community engagement, charitable giving, and sponsorships as part of its civic footprint as well as its government relations efforts.
- Direct the public relations and earned-media efforts that build the Company’s public standing and reinforce its advocacy.
Essential capabilities
- Strong political judgment including the discipline to know how to engage on the Company’s behalf at the right time at the right place.
- Command of legislative, regulatory, budget, and agency processes.
- Ability to translate technical infrastructure and operational detail into policy argument and government relations action plans.
- Credibility with officials and agencies, and the instinct to build the relationships behind it.
- Experience with public communications and community relations.
- Excellent writing and communications skills.
- Capacity to run many issues, stakeholders, and timelines at once across internal departments and senior leadership.
EEO Statement
Our company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
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Requisition ID
req1160
Type of Employment
Regular Full-Time Employee
|
Job Openings
1
Compensation Range
199,000.00 - 243,000.00
|
Compensation Type
Annual Salary
Founded in 1866, San Jose Water Company is an investor owned water company headquartered in Silicon Valley. With a service area of 140 square miles, it is one of the largest and most technically sophisticated urban water system in the United States. We serve over 1 million people with high quality, life sustaining water, with an emphasis on exceptional customer service.
We are actively seeking talented, driven and highly-productive applicants for the position of Director, Government Relations and Public Affairs to join our dynamic team. We offer a challenging and rewarding work environment along with a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package.
Position Overview: The Director, Government Relations and Public Affairs will serve as the President's strategic bridge and advisor across the Company's departments to ensure the Company is best positioned with all relevant public agencies and to advance the Company's standing in the public arena with its public constituencies.
The role supports the President's effort to oversee all aspects of the Company's strategy, advocacy, funding, regulatory clearance, coalitions, communications, and community engagement — as one integrated effort rather than running any single department.
Core Responsibilities
1. Develop Strategic Annual Plans
- Translate the Company's operating and business priorities into a prioritized government agenda, ranked by impact, urgency, feasibility, and return, drawing the facts behind each position from the legal, finance, engineering, operations, and communications teams.
- Develop the path for each priority — legislation, regulation, funding, coalition, or local action — on an annual basis with the President and external consultants.
- Monitor legislation, regulations, budgets, agendas, hearings, and the Company's key relationships, ensuring a deep understanding of the agencies and public officials impacting the Company's initiatives.
- Identify and surface emerging risks, alerting leadership when proactive action is needed.
2. Advocacy, Government Relationships, and Coalitions
- Build and sustain the relationships that carry the Company’s standing with officials, agencies, regulators, and relevant government agencies.
- Educate officials on the Company's operations and public benefit, secure support for target legislation, funding, and permits, and oppose or amend what threatens its operations, finances, or community standing.
- Mobilize third-party support: recruit aligned cities, counties, agencies, business, labor, environmental, and community partners into coalitions, joint letters, and project tours, and address opponents early.
- Identify public funding matched to the Company’s capital, infrastructure, and program needs, and package each project around need, cost, public benefit, urgency, and readiness.
3. Regulatory and Permitting
- Identify and define the legal, regulatory, and permitting barriers to project delivery, working with legal and technical staff.
- Develop and run a strategy to clear each — approval, faster timeline, clearer requirements, or a rule change — engaging agencies early to prevent surprises.
- Escalate when agency delay or ambiguity threatens delivery.
4. Communications, Community, and Public Affairs
- Convert technical engineering and operational detail into plain-language policy narrative, produce the materials that carry it — fact sheets, briefing papers, talking points, testimony, executive summaries — and match each issue to the right messenger and vehicle.
- Coordinate the Company's community engagement, charitable giving, and sponsorships as part of its civic footprint as well as its government relations efforts.
- Direct the public relations and earned-media efforts that build the Company’s public standing and reinforce its advocacy.
Essential capabilities
- Strong political judgment including the discipline to know how to engage on the Company’s behalf at the right time at the right place.
- Command of legislative, regulatory, budget, and agency processes.
- Ability to translate technical infrastructure and operational detail into policy argument and government relations action plans.
- Credibility with officials and agencies, and the instinct to build the relationships behind it.
- Experience with public communications and community relations.
- Excellent writing and communications skills.
- Capacity to run many issues, stakeholders, and timelines at once across internal departments and senior leadership.
EEO Statement
Our company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in public relations jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in public relations, communications, journalism, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience securing earned media placements in print, digital, and broadcast outlets
- Strong written communication skills including press releases, pitches, and executive messaging
- Proficiency with media monitoring and PR tools such as Cision, Meltwater, or MuckRack
- Experience managing social media channels and integrating them with earned media campaigns
- Ability to develop and maintain relationships with journalists, editors, and influencers
Tips for Your Public Relations Job Search
Tailor your resume to the beat
Public relations hiring managers want to see the specific industries you've pitched to and the outlets you've landed coverage in. Replace vague phrases like 'media outreach' with named publications, beat reporters you've worked with, and the story angles that got picked up.
Build a clip portfolio before applying
Most public relations roles expect a portfolio of placements, not just a resume. Collect bylines, press mentions, and campaign coverage you drove, and organize them by industry or story type so reviewers can immediately see the kind of coverage you deliver.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists public relations openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter openings by client vertical
Agency public relations roles are often tied to specific client verticals like tech, consumer goods, or healthcare. Targeting listings that name your strongest vertical signals fit from the first line of your cover letter and puts you ahead of generalist applicants.
Prepare story angles for your interview
Public relations interviews frequently include a pitch exercise or a media strategy question. Walk in with two or three story angles relevant to the employer's brand or a recent news moment in their industry, so you can demonstrate strategic thinking on the spot.
Negotiate using placement value, not just title
When discussing compensation, frame your leverage around the earned media value and outlet tier of coverage you've secured. Quantifying placements in major trade publications or top-tier consumer outlets gives you a concrete basis for salary conversations beyond years of experience.
Public Relations Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most public relations professionals?
The companies hiring the most public relations professionals right now include Highwire, FINN Partners, and VSC, with the largest share of openings in New York, California, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Both in-house corporate teams and independent agencies are actively adding public relations staff across consumer, technology, and healthcare sectors.
How many public relations jobs are remote?
About 60% of public relations openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, making it one of the more flexible communications disciplines. Digital PR, content-driven media relations, and social media-integrated roles tend to be the most remote-friendly, while crisis communications and government affairs positions more often require an on-site presence.
How do you become a public relations professional?
Start with a degree in public relations, journalism, or communications, then build hands-on experience through internships at agencies or in-house communications teams. Develop a portfolio of real media placements, learn industry tools like Cision or Meltwater, and cultivate relationships with journalists in your target beat. Entry-level roles in agency account coordination or corporate communications are the most common starting points.
Can you get hired in public relations with little or no experience?
Yes, entry-level public relations roles exist specifically for candidates with limited professional experience, but you need proof of practical skills. Internship clips, college newspaper work, social media management for a student organization, or volunteer communications for a nonprofit all demonstrate that you can write a pitch and understand media targeting before your first full-time job.
What does the public relations interview process look like?
Public relations interviews typically start with a phone screen focused on your media contacts and past placements, followed by an in-person or video interview with a hiring manager or team lead. Many employers include a written exercise, such as drafting a press release or pitching a story angle for their brand. Final rounds often involve meeting senior leadership or presenting a short communications strategy.
Where can I find and apply to public relations jobs?
You can find and apply to public relations jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search roles by location, seniority, or specialty, find the listings that match what you're looking for, and apply directly to each one.
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