Agricultural Liaison Officer Assistant

We are recruiting for an **Agricultural Liaison Officer Assistant (ALO)** to work on our Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) Framework.

**About the project**
Anglian Water has created a new delivery enterprise - the Strategic Pipeline Alliance. “SPA” is creating hundreds of kilometres of new, interconnecting pipelines to help combat the impact of climate change and keep fresh, clean water flowing across the Anglian Water region.
The new network is one of the largest infrastructure projects for a generation and is a complex and challenging major infrastructure project.

**About the role**
The ALO Assistant will play a key role in the successful delivery of the Strategic Pipeline Alliance, being part of the Engagement team reporting to the Stakeholder Manager and the relevant scheme Project Installation and Assembly Manager (PIAM).

The role will cover the South of Peterborough (Bexwell to Bury St Edmunds).

**Key Responsibilities**
Support the ALO in forming trusting relationships and being the prime contact with third party stakeholders such as landowners, farmers, tenant farmers, IDBs
Support the ALO with informing the landowners of project requirements and construction matters together with collating the landowner feedback to inform the Project team.
Support the ALO in their activities and deputise where needed - meeting landowners and land agents to discuss the programme
Attend project and team meetings and feedback necessary information to the ALO and engagement team
Organise meetings with landowners and prepare the necessary documents to support the ALO

**About you**
An engaging and enthusiastic individual that can form relationships at ease and is an excellent communicator who can build and sustain relationships with the project teams and external stakeholders (inc farmers and local residents)
Has experience in agriculture and/or construction
Can work collaboratively with the ALO and project team to help deliver the best solutions
Has a can-do attitude and enthusiasm to innovate and get the job done
Has the capability to use project systems to record stakeholder interactions and project progress
Is a proactive problem solver keeping the business objective at the heart of every decision
Support the ALO in their activities and deputise where needed - meeting landowners and land agents to discuss the programme

**About Costain**

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

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**Closing date**

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