Community Engagement Coordinator

Community Engagement Coordinator
London/ Essex/Kent
Permanent

Do you want to help shape one of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects by putting communities first? Are you committed to building trust, listening to local voices, and helping create lasting benefits for the communities we work in? Can you bring people together as COWI’s Community Engagement Coordinator across UK?  If so, join us in shaping a sustainable and livable world where we make a positive difference to communities for generations to come.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow.
COWI is looking for a Community Engagement Coordinator to expand its team of External and Communications professionals. As Communities Coordinator, you will work as part of a team to deliver compelling community engagement campaigns for the company’s infrastructure clients – including the Lower Thames Crossing, one of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects. COWI and the Lower Thames Crossing team put the communities they affect at the heart of what they do.
Further you will:

• Work with the Communities Lead to integrate community priorities into the design, construction, and communications of projects, you will work closely with project’s neighbours and local organisations such as Parish Councils, educational institutions, forums, and advocacy groups.


• Monitor community sentiment and provide intelligence and briefings to the Communities Lead and External Affairs team ahead of key engagements.


• Support direct engagement with challenging stakeholders by accompanying the External Affairs team, clients and contractors, arranging pre-briefings, ensuring teams are fully informed to respond to queries, recording actions in the CRM, and following up to ensure commitments are delivered.


• Assist in managing and holding account the three Main Works Contractors’ Community Engagement leads, ensuring compliance with client commitments and planning requirements.


• Review contractors’ engagement plans, public materials, and correspondence to ensure clarity, usefulness, quality, and alignment with National Highways and project tone of voice.


• Help deliver community engagement events (e.g. drop-in sessions) by planning briefings, staffing, venues, materials, attending events, and documenting outcomes and actions.

Your Skills.Our Team.Together, we deisgn the future  
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, communities, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.
Further you have:

• Experience of managing and engaging with internal and external stakeholders.


• Experience of engaging the public on development proposals or construction projects – such as for new infrastructure, housing or other built environment projects


• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, and to identify, develop and maintain a strong network with those stakeholders.


• Effective communication capabilities that assist in planning work, respecting tight timelines and adjusting to changing scenarios.


• Well organized, ability to plan and deliver a programme of events/activities.


• Skilled in working with, briefing colleagues ahead of external meetings.

A place to work and so much more.
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and livable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead, by example, by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.
With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK and Ireland, North America and India, we are currently 7,300 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:
To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.
Some of our benefits include:

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays


• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities


• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents


• Flexible and hybrid working conditions


• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions


• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange


• Life assurance


• Cycle-to-work scheme


• Corporate gym membership

Got more questions?
If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Specialist, Shruti Gupta at [email protected]. Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer.
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.