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Principal Engagement Consultant (South West)

WSP Bristol, Avon senior full-time

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Description

You’ll be joining WSP’s expanding UK wide Engagement team of 60 plus, where you’ll play a meaningful role in shaping how major projects connect with communities.

Working on some of the UK’s largest infrastructure programmes,as well as projects across the water, health, energy and environmental sectors,you’ll help deliver engagement that is thoughtful, impactful and built on best practice.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Delivering meaningful communication and engagement activity to help clients deliver infrastructure projects around the UK by drafting and delivering effective stakeholder engagement strategies.
  • Helping communities and stakeholders understand projects and how they 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 timelines, budgets and resources are delivered for clients.

What we would be looking for you to demonstrate…

Preferred Experience & 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.

Key Skills & Attributes:

  • Collaborative team player, comfortable working with technical and project teams.
  • Proven stakeholder management experience across clients and partners.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including reports and engagement materials.
  • Well-organised, adaptable, and able to manage multiple priorities.
  • Membership of a relevant professional body is beneficial.

Skills

Nice to have

  • sector experience in transport, utilities, water, environment, or energy

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