Communication and Engagement Manager

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

Our environmental practice helps industries and governments fulfill their responsibilities to the people they support, as well as the planet that support us all.

Our services help clients anticipate and manage the environmental impact at each stage of the project: planning and obtaining permits for new facilities; decommissioning, clean-up and closure of contaminates sites and surplus operations facilities; restoration for reuse; addressing critical climate - change issues; protection or restoration of habitats and water quality and the preservation of culture resource.

We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Job Description**:
We are looking for an experienced Communication and Engagement Manager to lead Communication and engagement planning and delivery.

**What will you be doing**
- During delivery of assigned projects, build trusted relationships with community members and stakeholders, understand their needs and expectations, identify and work to minimise project impacts on them as much as possible, and ensure they receive useful, accurate, timely and engaging project communications materials.
- Work closely with the delivery team to understand projects, identify potential stakeholder and community impacts and work to mitigate these as much as possible
- Day to day management of stakeholder and community issues, ensuring these are resolved and closed out within agreed timeframes, or escalated as appropriate

**Qualifications**:
**About You**
- Demonstrated experience in communication strategy, stakeholder and community engagement, project communication, digital engagement, issues and reputation management
- Experience on various clients and/ or projects in the major projects, transport, defence, infrastructure or government sectors
- Strong organisational skills to effectively manage multiple projects and team members for successful client outcomes
- Attention to detail and strong writing abilities
- Strong understanding of best practice communication strategies and techniques
- Understanding of how to work with local and state governments
- Ability to gain the confidence and trust of our clients
- University degree in communication or a related area is a mandatory requirement of this role
- IAP2 certification accreditation would be highly desired

You will take pride in your professional approach and commitment to excellence, whilst maintaining the ability to enjoy what you do You relish your role as key liaison and confidante, always staying one step ahead.

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.