Principal Engagement Consultant

YOUR ROLE, WHATS INVOLVED?

WSP has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our growing Engagement team. We drive best practice in engagement, community relations, consultation and stakeholder management in the delivery of some of the country’s largest infrastructure projects as well as delivering expertise within the water, health, energy and environmental sectors.

Within our Land, Instructure Planning and Engagement business unit, you will manage public consultation and engagement activity and act as a trusted client advisor. You will also be responsible for working collaboratively with colleagues across WSP to deliver engaging communications.

• delivering meaningful communication and engagement activity to help our clients deliver infrastructure projects around the UK by drafting and delivering effective stakeholder engagement strategies
• helping communities and stakeholders understand projects and how it may impact them by writing easy to understand communications and managing design and print processes
• giving people opportunities to ask questions and provide feedback through publishing communications, organising events and running surveys
• presenting feedback to help projects develop in a responsible way by understanding and interpreting data and presenting themes and key issues and managing the reporting process
• supporting clients based around the UK and internationally by providing communication and engagement advice and activities such as developing virtual consultation rooms, posters, banners and public facing maps as well as community engagement events
• collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver effective communication and engagement activity
• managing projects ensuring that your timeline, budget and resources are delivering for your client.

You will be joining a UK-wide team of 60+ communication and engagement specialists who are passionate about what we do. Reporting to the Engagement Regional Team Lead, you will be a key member of the team managing existing projects and client relationships and helping to build new partnerships.

You will be based in one of our key offices where the office is designed to provide an exceptional working conditions and a collaborative environment. The office is centrally located within walking distance of public transport.

We offer flexible working with a number of team days in person mixed with working from home days.

Preferred qualifications / education:

• Demonstrated experience delivering communication and engagement activity on multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects.
• At least degree-qualified or equivalent
• Experience in the road, rail, utilities, water, environment or energy sectors.

Preferred competencies:

• Strong team player who has an enthusiastic and motivated attitude
• Proven experience of effectively managing and building stakeholder relationships
• Excellent communication skills including writing of engagement strategies and reports.
• Well-ordered, structured approach to delivery of tasks, and flexible with ability to adapt within demanding and fast-changing environment.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills to manage a varied workload.
• Membership of relevant professional or trade body is desirable.

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