Consultant - Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications

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**Job Description** Start here. Grow Here.**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Stakeholder Engagement Consultant to join our Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications team.

Are you interested in infrastructure, politics, policy and public affairs? We have a new role to grow our political engagement support to clients including with MPs, devolved mayors, councils and councillors. You may have worked directly supporting elected members in Parliament or at a council, or you may have engaged with elected representatives as part of your current role.

As we support hybrid working we are flexible in terms of base location. This position can be based from our offices in**:

- London Aldgate, London Croydon or St Albans.** 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.

**Here’s what you’ll do**:
**Communications**:

- Contributing to the development 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.
- Monitoring communications channels.

**Engagement and consultation**:

- Identifying and mapping key stakeholders for client projects, and implementing 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**:

- Supporting with client liaison activities, ensuring a high level of customer service, and ensuring accurate, timely reporting

**Business development**:

- Helping support 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.

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 some experience of delivering communications and consultation activity on projects of different sizes and scales, which might include Development Consent Order (DCO) and/or Town and Country Plannin