Stakeholder Engagement Services Graduate

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Job Description

We have several exciting opportunities for a Graduate Stakeholder Engagement Consultant to join our Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications team. Our preference is for candidates based in Scotland (ideally Edinburgh otherwise Glasgow) or Northern Ireland (Belfast) however, we are open to discussing other office locations (including London, Croydon, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester)

Here's what you'll do: 

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:

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• You hold a Degree or a Master's in a relevant subject (for instance: Social Science, History, Politics, Geography, Language and Literature, Law, Business…), or an equivalent number of years of successful, relevant experience.
• 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 team

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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