Project Communications Coordinator – Secondment

Description

• Planning and delivering public information / public consultation open days/evenings and online events.
• Writing - project briefing sheets, press releases, website articles, social media content, etc.
• Taking responsibility for communications on projects to achieve the client’s vision and objectives.
• Devising and implementing project communications plans.
• Stakeholder mapping, relationship management and maintaining up-to-date contact databases, in line with GDPR.
• External stakeholder engagement including with contractors, residents’ associations, interest groups and elected representatives.
• Internal stakeholder engagement including liaison with technical colleagues and multi-disciplinary teams, preparing internal reports and presenting to internal meetings
• Event management for ministerial sod turnings and official openings of water and wastewater projects.
• Message development to make technical / complex information accessible and relevant to the general public, businesses, elected public representatives, and other stakeholders.
• Organising, attending, presenting, and taking minutes at stakeholder meetings
• The candidate should be able to organise key events (project launches, public consultations).

Requirements

• Hold an honours degree (Level 8 in the National Framework of Qualifications) in a relevant academic discipline: Communications, Public Relations, Social Sciences, Behavioural Economics, Law or Business.
• The candidate should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• The candidate should have strong analytical skills and the ability to support the development of communications strategies and plans for the designated area where required.
• The candidate must have demonstrable experience of implementing successful communications strategies, including developing communications collateral, media and social media campaigns, event management and stakeholder engagement.
• The candidate must have a minimum of 2 years’ post graduate relevant experience in communications for projects with experience of infrastructure or climate action projects being an advance.
• The candidate should have demonstrable account management experience including managing client relationships and reporting.
• The candidate must have, strong communications skills, strong report writing skills and excellent stakeholder management skills.
• The candidate should have the ability to prioritise tasks and work with schedules while remaining focused on team goals.
• The candidate should have experience of delivering projects in a deadline driven and evolving environment.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance