Principal Stakeholder Engagement Consultant

6 months ago


Belfast, United Kingdom AECOM Full time

**Company Description** Work with Us. Change the World.**

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
**Job Description** What your new role will entail;**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Stakeholder Engagement Consultant to join our Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications team in either **Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, St Albans, Croydon, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow,** or Belfast.** We’re looking for someone who is passionate about delivering effective communications and who can demonstrate experience of engaging with and consulting a wide range of audiences to support complex projects.

The role includes:
**Communications**:

- Managing the implementation of communications strategies and delivery plans.
- 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
- Managing communications channels.

**Engagement and consultation**:

- Leading consultation delivery.
- Establishing an engagement strategy and delivery plan.
- Leading the 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**:

- Leading client communications and establishing relationships with key contacts, ensuring a high level of customer service, and ensuring accurate, timely reporting.
- Business development:

- Taking a lead role in the growth of stakeholder engagement and communications services across AECOM, focusing on providing advice and support to teams across the UK (United Kingdom) and Ireland. This will require working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Identifying and delivering new business opportunities outside of AECOM.

**Project and team management**:

- Managing a range of projects, project teams and budgets
- Delivering on time and on budget, flexibly
- Supporting junior colleagues to grow, including line management responsibilities.

Does this sound like something you can do, and do well? If so, read on

**Being part of the 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 East West Rail Company, Network Rail, Homes England, National Highways, a range of Local Authorities across the country, and major energy and renewables companies.

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 English facts that help stakeholders understand a project and engage with it meaningfully.

We offer a flexible hybrid working model. As a member of our team, you will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package with a range of flexible choices covering health, finance, lifestyle, well-being and more.
**Qualifications** Here’s what we will need from you;**
- You have extensive experience of managing the delivery of communications and consultation activity on projects of different sizes and scales, including Development Consent Order (DCO) projects and policy development.
- You are experienced in managing teams of different sizes and complexity, including supporting junior colleagues with their career development.
- You have a strong interest and experience in industry sectors relevant to our business (e.g. infrastructure, transport, energy, water, residential development, commercial



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