Remote Consultant. Ymgynghorydd. Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications in Wakefield

Company Description

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Job Description

Start here. Grow Here.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Stakeholder Engagement Consultant to join our growing Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications team in Cardiff. We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering complex projects across Wales and beyond, and who can support effective communications and engagement with a wide range of audiences to support.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Communications:
• Support the development of communications strategy and delivery plans for major infrastructure projects, including Infrastructure Consent projects and DCOs.
• Developing themes, core messages and collateral for multiple audiences and stakeholders, including digital users, the media, local communities, statutory bodies, technical groups, and elected representatives.
• Identifying creative ways to communicate complex ideas to a wide audience.
• Managing communications channels and engaging directly with local communities.
• Engagement and consultation:
• Identifying and mapping key stakeholders for client projects, and establishing an engagement strategy and delivery plans.
• Supporting consultation delivery, developing surveys, managing stakeholder feedback channels and analysing consultation responses.
• Planning and delivery of events, both physical and virtual, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all attendees, delivering logistics, developing tailored materials, developing Q&As and briefing colleagues.
• Client relations:
• Liaising with internal and external clients, ensuring a high level of customer service and ensuring accurate, timely reporting.
• Business development:
• Helping to support our growth in Wales through networking and opportunity scanning.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for:

• You have experience working with in the communications or public affairs sector, or in a relevant role within the infrastructure sector, in Wales.
• You have a strong interest in industry sectors relevant to our business (e.g. infrastructure, transport, energy, water, residential development, commercial development), and are confident engaging a variety of audiences and stakeholder groups.
• You have a keen interest in the Welsh political landscape and an understanding of the Welsh planning system.
• Fluency in Welsh (written and spoken) would be preferable.
• You’re proactive and ambitious, work well both alone and in a team, and can bring about new ideas on engagement.
• You have great personal communication skills, are culturally aware, and have a strong focus on inclusion and accessibility.
• You’re willing to work flexibly and travel when required to meet with clients and project teams.
• You hold a Degree or a Masters in a relevant subject (for instance: Social Science, History, Politics, Geography, Language and Literature, Law, Business…), or an equivalent number of years of successful, relevant experience.

About our team

AECOM’s rapidly growing Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications team plays a key role in delivering major infrastructure and development projects. Most of our work revolves around engagement, consultation and communications during the consenting or construction phase of major infrastructure projects. Our team, which comes from many diverse backgrounds, has been involved in a range of high-profile projects across a range of sectors, working with other AECOM disciplines or providing standalone services for clients such as local councils, transport operators, private developers and utilities suppliers.

Our point of difference? We’re used to working with a wide range of technical experts from engineers, archaeologists, quantity surveyors, planners, designers, environmental and biodiversity scientists, programme and construction managers. As a result, we can translate complex information into accurate, plain facts that help stakeholders understand a project and engage with it meaningfully.

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you need accommodations during the application process, please contact us at (email protected).

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you feel you only meet some of the requirements above or have certain transferrable skills that you think could bring to us, then we would be delighted to hear from you!

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (annemarieflynn).

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address (email protected) if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.