Stakeholder & Community Engagement Manager

Description

This is an exciting role for an experienced Stakeholder/Community Engagement Manager to help us develop a new seabed leasing opportunity in the UK Celtic Sea.

• The successful candidate will play an important role in some of the company’s Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Project, supporting the project through the seabed leasing process.
• This is a great opportunity for an experienced stakeholder engagement manager to help bring about positive changes in our energy infrastructure for future generations.
• You will need to have a good knowledge of key local stakeholders and be able to identify and open opportunities in the area.

You’ll primarily take accountability for:

• Engaging and communicating with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, identifying and understanding issues as well as proactively communicating updates related to project development.
• Supporting engagement with key external stakeholders e.g. local MPs, local councillors, local parish councils, local community members, and local media for major projects.
• Identifying opportunities and reputational risks, as well as creating and delivering a strategy for handling risks to positively influence stakeholders to achieve sustainable business outcomes.
• Supporting co-ordination of consultation events and activities, ensuring compliance with relevant planning legislation.
• Building up a network of key internal contacts from the Renewables businesses as well as working closely with colleagues across all teams in corporate affairs, in order to best achieve Client Renewables business objectives.
• Supporting the development of integrated communications, public affairs, public relations and stakeholder engagement plans for Client Renewables project.