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Principal Engagement Consultant – Communications and Engagement

Edinburgh

Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings, is a leading design, engineering and landscape architecture consultancy that is passionate about designing sustainable places for the people who use them. We offer a range of services focused on providing our clients with the very best planning, design, engineering, and engagement solutions.

We are looking for Principal Engagement Consultant to join our growing team. You will join a fast-paced and growing consultancy team that helps clients connect with their communities and stakeholders and involve them in the decisions that impact the way they live, work and travel. We deliver public consultation, community engagement, and behaviour change programmes, and analyse the outcomes of these to shape how local authorities deliver projects.

If you enjoy the world of infrastructure and planning, want to be involved in projects that make a difference and enjoying motivating teams to reach their potential, then we would love to have you on board!

Recognising that our strength is the people we employ Project Centre is committed to equality of opportunity and employment, providing a workplace free of discrimination – we are also an Investors in People Champion. We care about our colleagues and part of that includes ensuring every employee can have a healthy work-life balance. We will provide you with development opportunities to enable you to succeed and support you to reach your potential.

What you’ll be doing:

• 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

We’re looking for someone who has:

• 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 definitely not essential

What you’ll receive:

• £45,000 - £55,000 depending on experience
• 27 days annual leave + Bank holidays
• Private Health Care
• Continuous training and development
• Flexible working policy
• Plenty of company organised social functions

This role is London-based, however we have offices in Brighton, Edinburgh, Manchester and Slough and would also be interested in hearing from candidates who may prefer to be based in these locations.