Associate / senior consultant – engagement and social impact

Associate / senior consultant – engagement and social impact

We are on the look-out for a talented and values-driven engagement professional based in Sydney to join our growing engagement and social impact team.

We are looking for an industrious and ambitious professional – at either the Senior Consultant or Associate level - who believes in the power of engagement to shape better community outcomes. We want a great listener, and someone who relishes the challenge of bringing creative flair to their engagement practice.

Our ideal candidate is curious about the world, passionate about communities, and driven to make a positive impact. You have an established or emerging reputation in the engagement or social impact field. You think creatively about solving problems in new and different ways and enjoy rolling your sleeves up to get things done when it counts.

In short, you are:

• committed to giving people a voice in the matters that affect them,
• a thinker, a challenger, and a do-er,
• skilled at solving complex problems (or learning how to),
• a persuasive and creative communicator, both in writing and in person,
• able to juggle multiple projects and deliver to a high standard,
• self-motivated, diligent, and well-organised.

Qualifications and experience

Associates will be seasoned practitioners looking for a strategic challenge and have at least 10 years' experience. Senior Consultants will have at least five years' experience and be confident working independently.

Candidates at either level will have:

• qualifications or a background in urban planning, public policy, communications, or social sciences,
• a strong understanding of the social, environmental, cultural and economic issues that face our communities,
• eligibility to work in Australia,
• IAP2 certification or a willingness to work towards it.

And it would be great if you had:

• experience or interest in social impact assessment,
• experience in a consultancy environment,
• strong client relationships, ideally within NSW and the ACT across public and private sectors,
• You must have full Australian working rights.

You will lead or support stakeholder and community engagement programs, with a particular focus on identifying and quantifying social outcomes. You will work primarily on consulting commissions, though may also undertake secondments with trusted client partners in a range of industry sectors. You will prepare or support proposals and tender responses, manage projects, and help develop our service offering.

Your responsibilities include:

• being an advocate for best practice engagement and social impact,
• designing and implementing engagement strategies and programs,
• working with community members and stakeholder organisations through a range of engagement methods,
• writing succinct and compelling copy to explain complex ideas in understandable ways,
• collaborating with digital and graphic designers to produce creative and engaging collateral,
• analysing qualitative and quantitative data, drawing out insights and preparing high-quality reports
• taking accountability for delivering quality projects on time and to budget,
• developing strong client and partner relationships based on trust and sound advice
• living our business values of excellence, relationships, challenge, trust and care.

We are a values-driven and B-Corp certified organisation. B-Corp certified organisations help solve environmental and social challenges by meeting high standards of business performance, accountability, and transparency.

We are infrastructure experts who strive to make a difference. We believe that well-planned, carefully designed and sensitively delivered infrastructure supports communities to be healthier, happier and better-connected.

Our purpose is to shape sustainable infrastructure and services that enhance community wellbeing and to have a business that makes a positive impact. We do this through our unique combination of engagement and social impact, project development, and environmental expertise.

We bring this ethos into our engagement and social impact practice by working to make and maintain the social case for investment. Ultimately, we build stakeholder understanding, acceptance and advocacy for infrastructure projects, always informed by our company values of relationships, excellence, challenge, trust and care.

We work with public and private sector clients in NSW and the ACT and have offices in Sydney and Canberra.

bd infrastructure is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes, values and encourages applications from diverse backgrounds and life experiences.

Look us up at: https://bdinfrastructure.com/

• a commitment to providing a safe, supportive and respectful working environment,
• equal opportunity employment conditions - in addition to being an equal opportunity employer, bd infrastructure values people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences,
• a competitive financial package to be negotiated with the successful candidate,
• generous employment conditions and employee benefits including:
• healthy living benefits,
• allowance for sustainable transport use,
• your birthday as gifted leave,
• parental leave provisions,
• additional annual leave based on service duration,
• professional learning and development/ memberships appropriate for the role.
• a flexible working environment,
• an opportunity to apply your passion to supporting our continued impact as a B-Corporation, including community, environmental and charitable initiatives,
• a fun and diverse team culture.

We are based in Sydney and Canberra and we work flexibly from the bd infrastructure offices, client offices and our homes.

If you are interested in this fantastic career opportunity, please submit your application including a complete resume/ portfolio of your work experience and a supporting cover letter. In your cover letter, in no more than one page, tell us about:

• your suitability for the role based on the requirements we have outlined above
• how you have demonstrated our values of relationships, excellence, challenge, trust and care through your previous work
• why you would like to work at bd infrastructure.

bd infrastructure welcomes, values and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with different cultural backgrounds and disabilities.

Timing

Applications close 11:59pm Sunday 28th September. Successful applicants will be contacted for interviews shortly after this time.

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