Community Engagement Specialist

6 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Vinci Full time

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a **Community Engagement Specialist** within the Community Engagement Engagement team. This role will be based on site in Sub Lot 1b.

You will be a key player in supporting the delivery of the HS2 Project’s Community Engagement Strategy and Community Commitments.

**Experienced required**:

- Participate in the development of the Balfour Beatty Vinci’s community reputation through coordinating, contributing to and delivering Community Engagement activities in sublot area(s) as required
- Coordinate and support the delivery of Community Investment work in sublot area(s) as the programme requires.
- Take a lead in the preparation, recording and distribution of communication and community engagement materials for internal and external use
- Supporting the development and delivery of a project and customer aligned community engagement strategy that delivers an effective and engaging approach to target audiences
- Working closely with the project team to, identify potential risks and issues and support mitigation through proactive and reactive communications

**Experience required**:

- Experience of developing communication and engagement plans
- Experience of organising public facing evets and engagements

Benefits of working with us
- Car/ car allowance [add/remove if required]
- Flexible working available for some roles
- Free parking
- Family friendly leave policies
- Excellent pension contributions
- Healthcare
- Health risk assessments
- Access to employee assistance programmes
- Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

- 9.3km of viaducts
- 62 overbridges
- 35 cuttings
- 56 culverts
- 62 embankments
- 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels
- 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.



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