Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Lead

Environment Agency; Sutton Coldfield; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension provision

Flexible working

Excellent training opportunities

Job summary

Environment Agency is seeking an engagement-focused professional to lead stakeholder management and engagement efforts across the Flood Investment Programme. The role requires building trusted relationships, guiding suppliers, and aligning engagement activities with organisational objectives.

You will respond to incidents, participate in business continuity activities, and may receive additional payment for incident work. Blended home and office working is encouraged with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Experience in influencing and leading discussions to embed stakeholder management and early engagement in programmes.
• Understanding how evaluation provides intelligence to improve efficiency, innovation and quality of engagement.
• Ability to spot stakeholder risks, issues and opportunities and communicate them to leaders and governance groups.

Responsibilities

• Setting engagement standards and expectations for our suppliers.
• Defining, reporting and managing engagement risk.
• Assuring engagement compliance and performance across the Flood Investment Programme.
• Encouraging consistency by developing and embedding engagement guidance and tools.
• Facilitating collaboration and engagement networks – sharing best practice and problem solving.
• Building relationships and providing a link between delivery teams, suppliers and leadership – sharing engagement data and insights to inform decision making.
• Operating strategically – looking for opportunities to mitigate engagement risks and implement mitigations nationally across the business.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Engagement strategy

Influencing

Communication

Collaboration

Resilience

Job description

Environment Agency is seeking an engagement-focused professional to lead stakeholder management and engagement efforts across the Flood Investment Programme. The role requires building trusted relationships, guiding suppliers, and aligning engagement activities with organisational objectives.

You will respond to incidents, participate in business continuity activities, and may receive additional payment for incident work. Blended home and office working is encouraged with occasional travel.