Prif Ymgynghorydd - Principal Consultant - Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications

Company Description

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Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Stakeholder Engagement Consultant to join our Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications team in Cardiff, 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.

Reflecting an exciting pipeline of existing and upcoming projects, we are looking for someone to lead a range of projects in Wales, help grow our team and expand the range of services we already provide our clients.

Here's what you'll do:

Communications:

• Developing communications strategies and delivery plans for complex or major infrastructure projects, at various stages of the project life cycle
• 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

Engagement and consultation:

• Identifying and mapping 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, helping make sure these are reflected in project proposals
• 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

Business development:

• Helping support the growth of stakeholder engagement and communications services across AECOM, focusing on providing advice and support to teams in Wales. This will require working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams
• Identifying and delivering new business opportunities outside of AECOM in Wales, and across the UK and Ireland

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

Mae gennym gyfle cyffrous i Brif Ymgynghorydd Ymgysylltu Rhanddeiliaid ymuno 'n tm Ymgysylltu Rhanddeiliaid, Ymgynghori a Chyfathrebu yng Nghaerdydd, sy'n angerddol am ddarparu cyfathrebu effeithiol ac sy'n gallu dangos profiad o ymgysylltu ag ystod eang o gynulleidfaoedd ac ymgynghori nhw i gefnogi prosiectau cymhleth.

Gan adlewyrchu piblinell gyffrous o brosiectau presennol a phrosiectau i ddod, rydym yn chwilio am rywun i arwain amrywiaeth o brosiectau yng Nghymru, helpu i dyfu ein tm ac ehangu'r ystod o wasanaethau rydyn ni eisoes yn eu darparu i'n cleientiaid.

Dyma beth fyddwch chi'n ei wneud:

Cyfathrebiadau:

• Datblygu strategaethau cyfathrebu a chynlluniau cyflwyno ar gyfer prosiectau seilwaith cymhleth neu fawr, ar wahanol gamau o gylch bywyd y prosiect
• Datblygu themu, negeseuon craidd a chyfochrog ar gyfer cynulleidfaoedd a rhanddeiliaid lluosog, gan gynnwys defnyddwyr digidol, y cyfryngau, cymunedau lleol, cyrff statudol, grwpiau technegol, a chynrychiolwyr etholedig

Ymgysylltu ac ymgynghori:

• Nodi a mapio rhanddeiliaid ar gyfer prosiectau cleientiaid, a sefydlu strategaeth ymgysylltu a chynlluniau cyflwyno
• Cefnogi cyflwyno ymgynghoriadau, datblygu arolygon, rheoli sianeli adborth rhanddeiliaid a dadansoddi ymatebion i'r ymgynghoriad, gan helpu i sicrhau bod y rhain yn cael eu hadlewyrchu mewn cynigion prosiectau
• Cynllunio a chyflwyno digwyddiadau, corfforol a rhithwir, sicrhau diogelwch a lles yr holl fynychwyr, darparu logisteg, datblygu deunyddiau wedi'u teilwra, datblygu sesiwn holi ac ateb a briffio cydweithwyr

Cysylltiadau cleientiaid:

• Cysylltu chleientiaid mewnol ac allanol, sicrhau lefel uchel o wasanaeth i gwsmeriaid a sicrhau adroddiadau cywir, amserol

Datblygu busnes:

• Helpu i gefnogi twf gwasanaethau ymgysylltu rhanddeiliaid a chyfathrebu ar draws AECOM, gan ganolbwyntio ar ddarparu cyngor a chefnogaeth i dimau yng Nghymru. Bydd hyn yn gofyn am weithio ar y cyd thimau amlddisgyblaethol
• Nodi a darparu cyfleoedd busnes newydd y tu allan i AECOM yng Nghymru, ac ar draws y DU ac Iwerddon

Rheoli prosiect a thm:

• Rheoli ystod o brosiectau, timau prosiect a chyllidebau
• Cyflawni ar amser ac ar y gyllideb, yn hyblyg
• Cefnogi cydweithwyr iau i dyfu, gan gynnwys cyfrifoldebau rheoli llinell.
• A yw hyn yn swnio fel rhywbeth y gallwch chi ei wneud, ac yn ei wneud yn dda? Os felly, darllenwch ymlaen

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

• You have extensive experience of leading communications, consultation or engagement work, with a particular focus on projects in Wales.
• You have a strong understanding of Welsh politics and consenting regimes.
• You are experienced in managing teams of different sizes and complexity, including supporting junior colleagues with their career development.
• You have a strong interest and experience 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 a keen eye for new business opportunities.
• You're willing to work flexibly and travel when required to meet with clients and project teams.
• Fluency in Welsh (written and spoken) would be preferable
• You hold a Degree or a Masters 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.

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 local councils, transport operators, private developers and utilities suppliers.
• 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 facts that help stakeholders understand a project and engage with it meaningfully.

Yn barod i wthio terfynau yr hyn sy'n bosibl?

Dyma beth rydyn ni'n chwilio amdano:

• Mae gennych llawer o brofiad yn arwain gwaith cyfathrebu, ymgynghori neu ymgysylltu, gyda ffocws penodol ar brosiectau yng Nghymru.
• Mae gennych ddealltwriaeth gryf o wleidyddiaeth Cymru a chyfundrefnau cydsynio.
• Rydych chi'n brofiadol o reoli timau o wahanol feintiau a chymhlethdod, gan gynnwys cefnogi cydweithwyr iau gyda'u datblygiad gyrfa.
• Mae gennych ddiddordeb a phrofiad cryf mewn sectorau diwydiant sy'n berthnasol i'n busnes (e.e. seilwaith, trafnidiaeth, ynni, dŵr, datblygu preswyl, datblygu masnachol), ac rydych chi'n hyderus yn ymgysylltu ag amrywiaeth o gynulleidfaoedd a grwpiau rhanddeiliaid.
• Rydych chi'n rhagweithiol ac uchelgeisiol, yn gweithio'n dda ar eich pen eich hun ac mewn tm, ac yn gallu dod syniadau newydd ar ymgysylltu.
• Mae gennych sgiliau cyfathrebu personol gwych . click apply for full job details