Environment and Industry Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator

Location: London

*Morgan Sindall has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CV’s from agencies.*

About us:

Would you like to work for one of the most successful and secure companies within the UK Construction and Infrastructure industry with a vision to be a market leader across all of the sectors in which we operate?

Morgan Sindall provides national construction and infrastructure services to private and public sector customers across a comprehensive range of markets. We aim to create great results for our customers, partners, ourselves, and our employees.

With talented people as the key to our success we operate a culture whereby personal and professional development are at the forefront of our efforts to attract and retain the best people in the industry.

Read more about our Highways work here - https://construction.morgansindall.com/roads 

Opportunity: 

We have a fantastic opportunity within our Highways business unit for an ambitious and talented Environment and Industry Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator for Lower Thames Crossing

Role objective:

The objective of this role is to work alongside a team of stakeholder professionals to deliver effective technical engagement and consultation with the environmental and industry bodies that will be either directly or indirectly impacted by the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC).

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a 4-person team to deliver effective technical engagement and consultation with the environmental and industry bodies that will be most affected by the construction and operation of the LTC.
• Manage the relationship and build advocacy with some of the project's key environment and industry stakeholders, such as the Port of Tilbury, Port of London Authority, Forestry Commission, Kent Downs AONB, Essex and Kent Wildlife Trusts.
• Establish/maintain trusted channels of communication between our stakeholders and the project team, by acting as the voice of LTC to the external stakeholders and ensuring those stakeholders views are heard within LTC.
• Negotiate, document and capture agreements with stakeholders, summarising the agreed position in Statements of Common Ground with these key stakeholders to fully reflect agreements.
• Draft high quality, well written reports, presentations, documents and briefings for varied internal and external audiences, as required.
• Organise and deliver appropriate meetings, events and workshops to engage with environment stakeholders.
• Keep accurate, well written and timely records of all interactions between our stakeholders and LTC Project/stakeholder staff, ensuring LTC’s CRM systems are kept up to date, and that the information from those meetings is shared appropriately, both internally and with stakeholders. Ensure there is a robust audit trail of all engagement activity on the CRM system.
• Work with other External Affairs colleagues to support external stakeholder events, such as community roadshows, consultation events and other public engagement events, as required.
• Ensure programme and reporting information is provided to enable effective reporting.

Previous experience

• Experience of working in or closely with environment and/or other prominent stakeholders on infrastructure projects (essential)
• Experience of working in a stakeholder relations, customer and/or communications team (desirable)
• 5+ years relevant experience

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, and to identify, develop and maintain a strong network with those stakeholders.
• Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative. Well organised & able to plan and deliver a programme of events/activities.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to schedule work, deliver to tight deadlines, respond to changing situations.
• Understanding of the requirements associated with Development Consent Orders (desirable but not essential)
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

About the Highways Team:

The UK’s strategic and local road infrastructure is a vital asset for communities and businesses, supporting economic prosperity and social connectivity.

As a major tier 1 contractor and framework partner, we play a key role in providing multi-faceted engineering services to keep these vital arteries running, ensuring smoother, safer, less congested journeys for everyone.

Our teams work on complex, high-profile national motorways, trunk road schemes as well as local authority road networks to deliver comprehensive, integrated services including design and build. These infrastructure solutions are enhanced by our complementary tunnelling and bridge design and build capabilities.

Whether working on Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) schemes or construct only works, we always endeavour to share best practice and deliver progressive solutions by engaging as early as possible with our customers to maximise innovation, efficiency, and cost savings.

Driving improvement across our road network

• Delivering projects to improve road journeys for millions of people every day
• Providing improved and new access to areas for development and employment opportunities, promoting economic growth
• Implementing hard shoulder running (HSR) and introducing smart motorway technology to give reduced vehicle emissions, increased journey time reliability and cost savings of around 40 per cent compared with conventional schemes.

Morgan Sindall is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation.  We are also an Investors in People company.

Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.

We can potentially consider certain types of flexible working in this role for the right candidate, subject to meeting business needs.