Engagement Lead - Infrastructure & Communities

WSP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP UK is seeking an Engagement professional to shape how major projects connect with communities. You’ll join our expanding UK-wide Engagement team, delivering thoughtful, impactful communications across water, transport, energy and environment sectors.

You will manage public consultation and engagement activity, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and help clients deliver infrastructure programmes while upholding best practice in stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering communications and stakeholder engagement on complex infrastructure projects, ideally within a consultancy environment.
• Degree-qualified (or equivalent) with relevant experience in communications, engagement, or a related advisory role.
• Sector experience in transport, utilities, water, environment, or energy is desirable.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Collaborative

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Organised

Education

Degree-qualified in communications or related field

Job description

WSP UK is seeking an Engagement professional to shape how major projects connect with communities. You’ll join our expanding UK-wide Engagement team, delivering thoughtful, impactful communications across water, transport, energy and environment sectors.

You will manage public consultation and engagement activity, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and help clients deliver infrastructure programmes while upholding best practice in stakeholder engagement.