Circa £75,000 salary depending on skills and experience
Full time/37 hrs a week/permanent
Location: World Wide House, Peterborough, with travel across the East of the region
Benefits: Conditional Car allowance, 26 days leave, double match Pension (up to 6%), Bonus
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be in World Wide House in Peterborough.
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Anglian Water's purpose is 'to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop'. As a company the focus is on enshrining purpose in everything we do including a change to the company's Articles of Association, legally enshrining public interest within the constitutional make-up of the business. This is important because increasingly people (customers) want companies to deliver not just for shareholders but for the environment and communities too.
We have two roles for a Stakeholder Engagement and Public Liaison Lead for our Cambridge Relocation project and our Strategic Interconnector projects. The roles are responsible for managing a strategic, proactive approach to stakeholder and community engagement and consultation for the Project's assuring that all stakeholders are engaged through the relevant planning process (Development Consent Order for Cambridge Relocation Project and Town & Contract EIA for Strategic Interconnectors) and beyond are engaged, updated, and resolutions found; ensuring that the Community Liaison Plan is implemented and continues to be owned by both projects through the enabling stage and beyond.
It is essential for the roles to own the strategy and plan to build support for the projects through proactive engagement to inform good design, planning, construction and handover, ensuring scheme success. The approach must demonstrate compliance with the relevant legislation and guidance (HIF funding and 2008 Planning Act).
What will you be doing?
- Stakeholder and community engagement and consultation strategy plan
- Day to day client liaison with appointed public relations and community engagement consultants (e.g. Savills, Delivery JV, LPA's)
- Managing stakeholder interactions across the programmes, identifying and escalating risks and opportunities to the programme team - seeking to mitigate them through effective stakeholder management.
- Working with the Brand and Communications team to ensure the programme aligns with Anglian Water's Communications and Stakeholder Engagement strategies
- Work closely with the delivery partners' communications team to ensure a consistent approach to the management of stakeholder issues on a day-to-day basis
- The role should deliver efficiencies through effective stakeholder engagement, driving innovation in the tools and approach to community engagement and consultation.
As a valued employee you'll be entitled to:
- Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
- Conditional car allowance
- Personal private health care
- Annual bonus scheme
- 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
- Life Cover at 8x your salary
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
What does it take to be successful?
- An experienced Public Affairs or engagement professional, with a passion for current affairs, news and the day-to-day national, regional and local (non party) political agenda.
- Proven experience and track record of successful proactive and reactive stakeholder engagement, either consultancy or in-house.
- Acute antennae for the political and public policy environment, with an ability to understand and interpret the 'inside track'.
- Able to initiate and develop relationships for the delivery of a specific outcome as well as the creation of networks for future engagement.
- Confident self-starter, able to work on own initiative, with outstanding written and presentation skills, comfortable in rooms full of strangers and unfazed at having to initiate interesting two-way conversations.
- Ability to research and communicate complex information clearly and concisely.
- Proven track record of managing successful communications campaigns.
- Credibility and confidence to be an effective and respected ambassador for the Brand and Communications department internally and externally.
Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community's Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women's Utility Network.
Closing date: 7th August
Interviews: Week Commencing 19th August
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