# Associate Director, Engagement & Consultation (North Region Lead)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Manchester, Greater Manchester
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As an experienced leader, you will join WSP's expanding UK-wide Engagement team of 60 plus as an Associate Director, Engagement & Consultation (North Region Lead). You will 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 will help deliver engagement that is thoughtful, impactful, and built on best practice.

Key Responsibilities:

- Advise project teams and clients on engagement and consultation strategies for complex, multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects.

- Ensure compliance with planning legislation, including DCO requirements and the Planning and Infrastructure Act (2025).

- Embed global best practice in communications, consultation, and engagement.

- Plan and deliver stakeholder communications and consultations, including risk and issue management, public events, and high-quality outputs.

- Lead and support teams delivering engagement across complex infrastructure projects.

- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams to integrate engagement into project delivery.

- Provide line management, coaching, and development for engagement specialists.

- Drive team growth and capability across the North, with a regular presence in the Manchester office.

- Take commercial and delivery responsibility for major infrastructure projects.

- Lead tender responses and support business development activity.

- Manage project resourcing, budgets, risks, and programmes to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

Preferred qualifications / education:

- Proven experience leading consultation and engagement on large, multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects.

- Degree qualified or equivalent relevant professional experience.

- Membership of a relevant professional or trade body (desirable).

- Experience across road, rail, utilities, water, environment, or energy sectors.

Preferred competencies:

- Collaborative leader with a strong track record of building and motivating high-performing teams.

- Demonstrable line management experience, including delivering training and performance improvement initiatives.

- Proven ability to build and sustain stakeholder relationships in complex, high-profile, and politically sensitive environments.

- Confident decision-maker, able to act on own initiative.

- Influential communicator with strong negotiation and problem-solving skills.

- Strategic, structured, and adaptable, with the ability to operate in fast-paced environments.

- Highly organised, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.

## Skills

### Required
- stakeholder engagement
- consultation strategies
- communications
- project management
- team leadership

### Nice to have
- leadership
- line management
- coaching
- development
- strategic thinking
- problem-solving

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