Location
Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

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 will 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:
- Manage and enable your team to successfully deliver engagement and consultation activities across a range of multidisciplinary projects
- Hold commercial responsibility for tender production and business development opportunities
- Identify opportunities to embed global communications and engagement best practice
- Advise project teams and clients on stakeholder and community strategies for multi-disciplinary projects
- Develop and implement the competency-focused training programme for the team
- Plan and deliver stakeholder communication and consultations, including managing risks and issues, organising public information events, and managing outputs to achieve engagement and consultation objectives
- Project manage schemes including resourcing, budget management and ensuring delivery to programme
- Deliver projects including resources, budgets and risk management to ensure projects are delivered on time and to budget
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects
- Act 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 the ability to act on own initiative
- Persuasive influencer with strong negotiation and problem-solving skills
- Well ordered, structured approach to delivery of tasks and flexible with the ability 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