Stakeholder Engagement Services Graduate

**Company Description** Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications**

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**Job Description** About the job**

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

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:

- Supporting 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
- supporting the management of communications channels.

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

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

**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 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.
**Qualifications** About you**
- 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’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. For you, giving people a chance to influence projects that are delivered in and around their communities for the better, is key.
- You have strong skills in Microsoft Office specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- You have strong report writing research, numeracy and verbal communications skills - verbal and written - with the confidence to engage with a variety of people, summarise technical information effectively and demonstrate diligent research techniques
- You have proven organisational skills and attention to detail
- evidence of an organised approach to task/project management - Ability to structure & prioritise work effectively through close cooperation with the team as a whole
- You’re willing to work flexibly and travel when required to meet with clients and project teams.

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