
Job Description:
Stakeholder Engagement Lead
Reporting to: Stakeholder Manager
Role and Responsibilities:
- Working closely with the Stakeholder Manager, Communications Lead, Project Manager, and other team members, oversee and manage engagement with key stakeholders including major retailers, small and medium businesses, industry & business representative bodies, community organisations and residents to establish strong working relationships
- Development and successfully deliver stakeholder engagement plans in accordance with the overarching stakeholder engagement strategy
- Manage stakeholder mapping and prepare communications to stakeholders and respond to stakeholder enquiries
- Manage stakeholder engagement coordinators, providing guidance and programming their workload and activities to ensure timelines and delivery requirements are met
- Work collaboratively with other members of the wider project delivery team, including the design, architectural, programming and construction disciplines
- Provide briefings and support to technical teams for meetings with stakeholders
- Arrange and attend stakeholder meetings with technical team members and ensure stakeholder responses and requests to technical teams are responded to within agreed timescales
- Ensure accurate audit trail maintained of all stakeholder engagement and all contact/activities are recorded on stakeholder database
- Attend client-facing meetings, collaborative planning workshops and report to client on progress
- Provide input into weekly/monthly reports for PMO and Project Board
Experience and Skills Required:
- Significant experience of managing engagement with stakeholder cohorts referred to above and statutory bodies on major high-profile public-sector infrastructure or regeneration projects
- Understanding of the infrastructure-related political environment, especially at local authority level
- Experience in developing and successfully implementing stakeholder engagement plans
- A clear understanding of issues pertaining to project development and familiarity with the consultation and engagement requirements of authorisation and consenting processes
- Ability to multi-task under pressure, respond quickly to changing situations in complex project environments, prepare responses/narrative quickly and clearly and use personal initiative
- Good interpersonal and networking skills, highly articulate team player
- Strong project management and people management skills
- Familiarity with using various CRM systems essential
- High degree of accuracy in executing work
- Ability to schedule work and deliver to tight deadlines
- Broader project communications experience and skills desirable
If you are interested in joining the team please send your CV to HR@cjassociates.co.uk