Stakeholder Engagement Services Graduate - Croydon - start Jan 2025 onwards

About the job

We have an exciting opportunity for a Graduate Stakeholder Engagement Consultant to join our Stakeholder Engagement Consultation and Communications team in Croydon from January 2025 onwards. 

Heres what youll do: 

Were looking for someone who is passionate about delivering effective communications and who can demonstrate experience of engaging with and consulting a wide range of audiences to support complex projects.

The role includes:

Communications:

• Supporting the development of communications strategies and delivery plans
• developing themes core messages and collateral for multiple audiences and stakeholders including digital users the media local communities statutory bodies technical groups and elected representatives
• supporting the management of communications channels.

Engagement and consultation:

• Identifying and mapping key stakeholders for client projects and establishing an engagement strategy and delivery plans
• Supporting consultation delivery developing surveys managing stakeholder feedback channels and analysing consultation responses
• Planning and delivery of events both physical and virtual ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all attendees delivering logistics developing tailored materials developing Q&As and briefing colleagues.

Client relations:

• liaising with internal and external clients ensuring a high level of customer service and ensuring accurate timely reporting

Does this sound like something you can do and do well If so read on

About our team

AECOMs rapidly growing Stakeholder Engagement Consultation and Communications team plays a key role in delivering major infrastructure and development projects. Most of our work revolves around engagement consultation and communications during the consenting or construction phase of major infrastructure projects. Our team which comes from many diverse backgrounds has been involved in a range of highprofile projects across a range of sectors working with other AECOM disciplines or providing standalone services for clients such as East West Rail Company Network Rail Homes England National Highways a range of Local Authorities across the country and major energy and renewables companies.

Our point of difference Were used to working with a wide range of technical experts from engineers archaeologists quantity surveyors planners designers environmental and biodiversity scientists programme and construction managers. As a result we can translate complex information into accurate plain English facts that help stakeholders understand a project and engage with it meaningfully.

Enjoy the Perks

At AECOM youll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and wellbeing customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a worklife balance that suits your lifestyle technical practice networks AECOM University and volunteering days.

Here is what you will get from us!

On the job support and learning

When a graduate starts at AECOM we pair them with a senior member of the team who will guide and mentor them through their initial period working on live projects and business development tasks to support with any technical queries. 

Graduate Development Programme

Our 2 year  graduate ADVANCE programme is designed to help you build your career in AECOM. You will attend a number of instructorled training sessions where you will meet and hear from people across the business and take part in a series of interactive activities to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in your role.   Alongside the instructorled elements of the ADVANCE programme you will also engage with an online curriculum via AECOM University and have the opportunity to join the ADVANCE webinar series.  We will provide you with all the support and tools you need to achieve your professional development ambitions which may include Chartership with the relevant international professional institution.  

We have more than 750 graduates on our programmes across the UK and Ireland from more than 40 different disciplines each making a tangible difference to the environment in which we live and work.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the worlds trusted infrastructure consulting firm delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory planning design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation buildings water new energy and the environment our public and privatesector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise a culture of equity diversity and inclusion and a commitment to environmental social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether youre working from an AECOM office remote location or at a client site you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity diversity and inclusion a safe and respectful workplace where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global wellbeing program. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industryleading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.