Principal Consultant: Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Stakeholder Engagement Consultant to join our team in London. 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, including experience working on Development Consent Order (DCO) projects, or projects of a similar size and complexity. 

Here’s what you’ll do:

Communications:

• developing communications strategies and delivery plans
• developing project narratives, key messages and collateral for multiple audiences including digital users, the media, local communities, statutory bodies, technical groups, and elected representatives
• managing communications channels.

Engagement and consultation:

• identifying and mapping key stakeholders for client’s projects, and establishing an engagement strategy and delivery plans
• leading consultation delivery on projects of varying scales including DCOs, 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 accurate, timely reporting.

Business development:

• this role will have a focus on building our stakeholder engagement and communications services, and is likely to include proactively identifying new business opportunities and pitching to potential clients
• building connections within AECOM to identify new opportunities
• developing proposals and tender responses.

 Project and team management:

• managing a range of projects, project teams and budgets
• delivering on time and on budget, flexibly
• supporting junior colleagues to grow, including line management responsibilities.

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

About our team

AECOM has a well-established Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications team which has been playing a key role in delivering major infrastructure and development projects for almost 20 years. 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 National Grid, Network Rail, National Highways, Homes England, East West Rail, 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.