# Assistant Engagement Consultant (Scotland)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Edinburgh
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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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**

- Helping communities and stakeholders understand projects and how they may impact them by writing easy-to-understand communications

- Giving people opportunities to ask questions and provide feedback through publishing communications, organising event logistics, and helping to run surveys

- Presenting feedback to help projects develop in a responsible way by understanding and data coding and helping prepare reports

- Supporting clients based around the UK and internationally by attending and minuting meetings, ensuring accuracy in documents and reports, and tracking stakeholder engagement

- Proactively supporting teams to deliver quality communications and engagement activity

**Requirements**

- A degree (or equivalent), or a minimum of two years’ experience in a related field such as engagement, communications, planning, or consultation

- Membership of a relevant professional or trade body (or an interest in working towards one)

- Exposure to projects within the road, rail, utilities, water, environment, or energy sectors is an advantage, but not essential

**Desirable Skills**

- Collaborative mindset

- Organisation and adaptability

- Excellent attention to detail

- Strong writing skills

- Engagement or communications experience

- Analytical skills

- Digital and social media awareness

- Print and production knowledge

## Skills

### Required
- communications
- engagement
- planning
- consultation
- teamwork
- organisational skills
- analytical skills
- digital literacy

### Nice to have
- road
- rail
- utilities
- water
- environment
- energy sectors experience

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