Communication & Engagement Specialist

**Company Description** Start here. Grow here.**

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. We provide advisory and technical services to enable you to achieve compliance, manage impacts and reduce or even eliminate risks.

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.***

**Leading the change toward a sustainable and equitable future**

You will be part of a dynamic team working on projects across a range of sectors at various stages of the project lifecycle. Working closely with clients and in multidisciplinary teams, you will have the opportunity to leave a positive legacy within the community.

We have a strong pipeline of diverse projects and opportunities to grow your career. You will lead communication and engagement on a range of projects and help grow a team.

**Job Description** What will a day in this role look like**:

- Coordinating and attend community engagement events including community update sessions and explaining project details to stakeholders
- Developing and implementing engagement strategies and consultation plans, including the preparation of communication materials.
- Managing information lines, responding to community enquiries, and reporting outcomes.
- Leading communication and engagement projects, providing advice and training to less experienced team members.

**Qualifications** What are we looking for from you?**
- Previous experience working in a communication or community engagement role.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, strong attention to detail and good time management skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communication or Public and ideally an IAP2 qualification. However, we value effective communication with both internal and external stakeholders as a higher priority.
- Professional and mature approach with a commitment to high levels of client service
- Open to travel for short stints from time to time

**Additional Information**
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**About AECOM**

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public

**Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity**

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

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.

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

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.