Location
Manchester

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
You’ll be joining WSP’s expanding UK-wide Engagement and Consultation team of over 75 professionals as an experienced leader, playing 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. Recent contract and framework wins across water, transport, energy and environmental sectors underpin strong growth over the next three years, with clients including National Grid, East West Rail Co, Nuclear Waste Services and the Environment Agency.
As a member of the Engagement and Consultation Team within our Planning and Consents business, you will assist in leading engagement delivery across major UK infrastructure projects, shape regional delivery models, lead distributed teams, build strategic client relationships, and drive excellence and innovation in engagement practice.

Key Responsibilities
Managing and enabling your team to successfully deliver engagement and consultation activities across a range of multidisciplinary projects
Having commercial responsibility for tender production and business development opportunities
Identifying opportunities to embed global communications and engagement best practice
Advising project teams and clients on stakeholder and community strategies for multi-disciplinary projects
Developing and implementing the competency-focused training programme for the team
Planning and delivering stakeholder communication and consultations, including managing risks and issues, organising and managing public information events, and managing outputs to achieve engagement and consultation objectives
Project managing schemes including resourcing, budget management and ensuring delivery to programme
Delivering projects including resources, budgets and risk, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to budget
Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects
Acting as a people manager for engagement specialists

Experience
Demonstrated experience in leading the Development Consent Order (DCO) engagement process across large multidisciplinary infrastructure projects
Experience in the road, rail, utilities, water, environment or energy sectors
Proven line management experience including delivery of training initiatives
Proven experience of effectively managing and building stakeholder relationships in complex environments

About you
Strong team player with an enthusiastic and motivated attitude
Effective decision-maker with ability to act on own initiative
Persuasive influencer with ability to strike rapport and exert strong negotiation and problem-solving skills
Well ordered, structured approach to delivery of tasks, flexible and able to adapt within demanding and fast-changing environments
Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills to manage a varied workload

Qualifications
At least degree-qualified or equivalent
Membership of relevant professional or trade body is desirable