External Affairs - Southern California Tribal Liaison

Verizon Verizon · Telecom · Irvine, CA

This role serves as a dedicated Tribal Liaison for Verizon and Frontier in Southern California, engaging with tribal governments to build relationships, resolve issues, and share information. The liaison will coordinate with operational teams, facilitate collaboration with executive leadership, and respond to service incidents impacting tribal communities. The position requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, demonstrated experience in tribal affairs or government relations, and familiarity with telecommunications policies. Extensive travel within Southern California is expected.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serving as Verizon and Frontier’s dedicated Southern California Tribal Liaison, responsible for full-time engagement with tribal governments located within Verizon’s and Frontier’s service territories (at least 50% travel) or where either company has a physical presence.
  2. Building and maintaining trusted relationships with tribal governments, serving as the primary point of contact for service coordination, issue resolution, and information sharing.
  3. Coordinating closely with operational teams across plant maintenance, wire center operations, engineering, customer service, and field teams to address service and infrastructure matters impacting tribal communities.
  4. Facilitating collaboration with executive leadership to escalate service issues, operational concerns, and infrastructure needs affecting tribal governments.
  5. Working across teams to support plant maintenance activities, service restoration, infrastructure reliability, and customer service responsiveness in tribal communities.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience
  • Four or more years of relevant experience
  • Demonstrated experience in tribal affairs, government relations, public policy, or community advocacy
  • Familiarity with telecommunications, broadband, cable TV, and utilities policies
  • Demonstrated skills in relationship-building, consensus building, and external advocacy
  • Experience working with all levels of management
  • Willingness to travel extensively within Southern California territory in personally owned vehicle
  • Ability to work both during normal business hours, as well as evenings and weekends should the circumstances require availability

Nice to have

  • Strong ties to or membership in a tribal community
  • Public policy, community engagement, or advocacy experience on behalf of a technology, communications, or public utilities business/industry
  • Broad knowledge of Verizon and/or Frontier operations and business functions
  • Strong leadership skills and a proven track record of influencing cross-functional teams
  • Self-starter and evidence of intellectual curiosity
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and changing priorities in a highly regulated environment

What the JD emphasized

  • full-time engagement
  • at least 50% travel
  • primary point of contact
  • address service and infrastructure matters
  • escalate service issues
  • service restoration
  • customer service responsiveness
  • Out-of-Service (OOS) incidents
  • timely communication
  • timely responses
  • network operations
  • maintenance
  • infrastructure
  • senior leadership
  • Four or more years of relevant experience required
  • Demonstrated experience in tribal affairs
  • government relations
  • public policy
  • community advocacy
  • Familiarity with telecommunications
  • broadband
  • cable TV
  • utilities policies
  • Demonstrated skills in relationship-building
  • consensus building
  • external advocacy
  • Experience working with all levels of management
  • Willingness to travel extensively
  • Ability to work both during normal business hours, as well as evenings and weekends should the circumstances require availability
  • highly regulated environment