Consultant - Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications

• Full-time
• State/Province:
  Gauteng
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM SA
• Business Line:
  Environment
• Work Location Model:
  Hybrid
• Operating Group:
  Group Support
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  ZA
  - Pretoria, 263A West Avenue, Cen

Enterprise Capabilities (EC) Support

As part of AECOM's Enterprise Capabilities (EC) team, you will join a global network of over 3,000 technical professionals across nine countries. The EC team is trusted to seamlessly deliver high-quality, specialist expertise that expands our project capacity across all scopes and sizes. You will form part of a larger EC Environment Team and work from one of the local offices, note AECOM operates a hybrid work model split between work in one of AECOM’s offices and working from home.

Important Note:

This is a remote, desk-based position providing dedicated support to our UK team.

Start here. Grow here.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Stakeholder Engagement Consultant to join our growing Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications team. We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering complex projects , and who can support effective communications and engagement with a wide range of audiences to support.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Communications:

• Support the development of communications strategy and delivery plans for major infrastructure projects, including Infrastructure Consent projects and Development Consent Orders (DCO)
• 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
• Identifying creative ways to communicate complex ideas to a wide audience
• Managing communications channels and engaging directly with local communities

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 virtual events, 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

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for

• You have experience working with in the communications or public affairs sector, or in a relevant role within the infrastructure sector.
• 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.

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…