Principal Engagement Consultant

Communications and Engagement

 
We are currently working with a multidisciplinary consultancy specialising in design, engineering, and landscape architecture who are looking to expand their London office by recruiting a Principal Engagement Consultant to join their team. You will be joining a growing consultancy team that helps clients connect with their communities and stakeholders and involve them in decisions that impact the way they live, work, and travel. As Engagement Consultant you will be delivering public consultation, community engagement, and behaviour change programmes, and analyse the outcomes of these to shape how local authorities deliver projects.

 

As Principal Engagement Consultant your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Be responsible for leading and delivering stakeholder engagement, consultation, and communications activity for a wide range of projects - including, active and sustainable transport, parking strategies, and regeneration projects.
• Ensure all activities are delivered on time and within budgets.
• Be accountable for ensuring high-quality communications and engagement outputs are delivered from project inception to completion.
• Manage the workload, development and wellbeing of Senior Engagement Consultants and Engagement Consultants
• Build strong rapport with our clients across the UK, providing them with high-quality advice in the development of consultation, engagement, and communication delivery.
• Take on leadership across the wider team through process improvement, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and encouraging innovation.
• Work effectively with and provide high-quality support to internal teams to achieve project objectives.
• Support business development and our growth strategy, including bid submissions and client management.

Job requirements:

• Leadership experience, coaching and managing a busy team and workload to achieve high quality results.
• Several years experience working in a consultation and engagement role; planning and implementing engagement and consultation strategies and activities encouraging buy-in from a range of stakeholders.
• Knowledge and experience of consultation planning and delivery including equalities impacts.
• Experience of matrix management, working across a multi-discipline company
• An ability to build effective working relationships with clients, including local government, and a wide range of strategic and community level stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal skills to produce communications, consultation strategies and plans, surveys, web copy and promotional materials, translating technical detail into plain English.
• Understanding and experience of managing budgets and time allocation
• Experience developing new and innovative engagement methods, including the development of our consultation portal.
• Experience of data collection, analysis, and report evaluation
• Experience of working in the infrastructure or planning sectors, and associated processes is beneficial but not essential.

 

As mentioned, this role as Principal Engagement Consultant is based in London, therefore would suit candidates in the surrounding areas. If this position is of interest, dont hesitate to get in touch with Erin at Critical Project Resourcing.