Stakeholder Engagement Specialist

📢 WE’RE HIRING | STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST
📍 Location: Remote, United States
🏢 Work Arrangement: Remote (Occasional travel to Baltimore, MD and regional offices required)
📄 Employment Type: Part-Time Contract
💼 Engagement: W-2 or 1099
⏱️ Estimated Hours: Approximately 360 hours
📅 Duration: December 2026 – June 30, 2027
🕒 Schedule: Approximately 10–12 hours per week, with increased hours during engagement cycles
Key Responsibilities:
Plan and facilitate listening sessions, focus groups, advisory meetings, interviews, and surveys across Maryland.
Engage individuals with developmental disabilities, families, caregivers, providers, and advocacy groups.
Maintain stakeholder feedback logs and issue trackers.
Analyze feedback and prepare quarterly summaries and recommendations for client leadership.
Support stakeholder and journey mapping initiatives.
Work with regional offices to support service improvement efforts and track before-and-after results.
Mandatory Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Social Work, Public Administration, Psychology, Sociology, or a related field.
5+ years of stakeholder or community engagement experience in human services, Medicaid, disability services, or government.
3+ years of direct experience engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, their families, providers, and advocacy communities.
Experience designing and facilitating listening sessions, focus groups, and surveys.
Ability to turn stakeholder feedback into clear written summaries and recommendations.
Experience with journey mapping or comparable service-design methods.
Strong professional writing skills. Writing samples will be requested.
Availability to start in December 2026 and travel occasionally to Maryland locations.
U.S. work authorization required. Sponsorship is not available.
Must be independent of direct service providers funded by the client agency.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree in a related field