Lead Community Liaison Officer
Job Description
Job title: Lead Community Liaison Officer
Company: RSK Group
Job description: Copper Consultancy, a strategic communications consultancy within the RSK Group, is seeking a Lead Community Liaison Officer to join the team. The successful candidate will work from the client’s office in the Norfolk region. This role is offered on a 12 month fixed term contract and is critical to the business. Flexible working can be discussed.
Copper Consultancy is a UK-based specialist infrastructure communications firm. We combine insight, intelligence and creative communications expertise to provide bespoke, data-driven strategies to support businesses. Our services are standalone or can be blended to provide support where it’s needed, spanning expertise across public affairs, campaigning, media relations, content, creative and more.
Responsibilities
- Management and logging of stakeholder enquiries and corresponding actions
- Community relations activity, including preparing notifications about construction activities, promoting the project’s involvement in community events and the organisation of, attendance of and participation at community meetings
- Working with stakeholders from the project team (onsite) to stay up-to-date with upcoming activity that will impact the community and building relationships with CLOs working on other projects to collaborate and share best practice where appropriate
- Coordinating and preparing community engagement materials for print and online, including management of the approval process
- Carrying out ad hoc administrative tasks for the project team
- Working in line with company and project team values
Person Specification
- Proven experience in a similar position with a record of managing client, stakeholder and media relationships using stakeholder engagement strategies and approaches
- Strong communication and effective interpersonal skills in order to build and maintain positive relationships with external stakeholders, colleagues, key partners and local communities
- Organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload and work to tight deadline
- Excellent English, both written and verbal, with great writing skills to deal with queries and concerns as well as marketing material such as newsletters, social media and blogs
- Strong presentation skills and the ability to talk in detail about the construction activities with local representatives and groups
- Knowledge of the local area and the ability and willingness to travel across the Norfolk region & to London, if required
- Please note: We can accommodate the right candidate in shared accommodation
Salary and Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Life assurance
- A flexible benefits programme including the option to buy additional holidays, health cash plan and discounted gym membership
- Fitness fund
- Performance bonus
- £500 personal development fund
- Enhanced employer pension contributions after year one
- Enhanced holiday allowance for long service
- Salary-sacrifice electric car leasing scheme
RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
More detailed job description is attached.
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RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than RSK PSL or Secondary agencies.
Copper Consultancy is a UK-based specialist infrastructure communications firm. We combine insight, intelligence and creative communications expertise to provide bespoke, data-driven strategies to support businesses. Our services are standalone or can be blended to provide support where it’s needed, spanning expertise across public affairs, campaigning, media relations, content, creative and more.
For projects, our suite of services create proven community and stakeholder engagement that take projects from pre-planning and consent to construction and operation, getting audiences on-side and building enduring advocacy. We specialise in building understanding and acceptance of infrastructure with the public, stakeholders, the media, government and elected representatives while helping organisations to protect and enhance their reputations. We’ve helped pave the way for ambitious, society-changing projects throughout the UK, for clients such as Vattenfall, RWE, National Grid, National Highways, Wildfox and many of the top 20 major contractors.
Copper is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then. In fact, Environment Analyst recently highlighted RSK’s growth commenting, “Few companies in the environmental services sector can claim to be expanding at the same pace as RSK.”
RSK operates as a group of synergistic businesses with a growth strategy centred on diversification to build a resilient business that can withstand external pressures while also bringing more value to clients and opportunities to employees.
Expected salary: £35000 per year
Location: East Anglia
