Director Community Engagement

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers.  Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility. 

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

As Global Lead, Community Engagement, you will be responsible for ensuring that Nscale’s data centre projects are developed in a way that earns and sustains local community support.

This is a senior, hands-on role with real influence over how projects are designed and delivered. You will work closely with teams across the company to ensure that community engagement is a core part of how Nscale builds.

You will set global standards and frameworks, while also focusing on individual projects at a local level to engage and support the community and relevant stakeholders.

What You’ll Be Doing

Global Standards

• Define and own Nscale’s global approach to community engagement across data centre projects.

• Develop clear frameworks and standards for:

• Local hiring and skills development

• Community benefits and investment

• Sustainability and circularity initiatives (e.g. waste heat reuse, energy integration)

• Ongoing community dialogue and transparency

• Ensure alignment between community commitments and Nscale’s broader sustainability and business objectives.
  
  

Project-Level Engagement & Support

• Support individual project teams with:

• Stakeholder mapping and engagement strategies

• Assessment and mitigation for community concerns

• Engagement sequencing across planning, construction, and operations

• Help project teams design credible, deliverable commitments that reflect local needs and constraints. This will require significant travel to our sites to partner with local communities effectively
  
  

Internal Influence & Change

• Work cross-functionally with data centre, engineering, legal, and wider teams to embed community considerations into early-stage decision-making.

• Build internal capability by sharing best practice and lessons learned across regions.
  
  

External Relationships

• Engage with local authorities, community leaders, NGOs, and other stakeholders as needed on priority projects.

• Ensure Nscale is seen as a constructive, long-term partner in the communities where it operates.
  
  

About You

• 8+ years’ experience in infrastructure, energy, utilities, data centres, or major capital projects, with a strong focus on community, stakeholder, or social impact engagement.

• Proven experience working on complex projects, including managing sensitive stakeholder dynamics, and a willingness to travel regularly to our sites.

• Strong understanding of planning, permitting, and local political processes.

• Ability to translate high-level sustainability goals into practical, project-level action.

• Confident operating with senior internal stakeholders and influencing decisions under time pressure.

• Pragmatic, credible, and comfortable making trade-offs in complex environments.

• Excellent communication skills, with the judgement to engage externally when required.

• Experience in global or multi-country projects is a strong advantage
  
  

At Nscale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities.  We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.

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