Team Lead

An exciting opportunity has recently become available to join our Perth team as a Team Lead - Social Impact and Stakeholder Engagement. You will bring your technical authority, experience and passion for stakeholder engagement, social sustainability and relish the challenge of supporting a diverse client base across many industry sectors. You will lead a growing team of specialist consultants working with GHD’s clients and part of integrated multi-disciplinary teams across a broad range and often high-profile infrastructure, energy, resources, and environmental projects across Western Australia.

**As Team Lead of the Social Impact and Stakeholder Engagement team, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects internally and within the public and private sector. You will work closely with the Business Group Leader, providing direction and technical leadership on projects and also in collaboration with the wider Australian Service Line and Market Leaders. You will be involved in**:

- Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with clients, project directors and project managers through the pursuit, tendering and delivery phases of projects.
- Contributing to GHD’s growing Planning, Consultation and Urban Design Business Group in WA.
- Working with the Business Group Leader on business development and marketing.
- Providing direction and technical leadership on projects.
- Creating and implementing stakeholder engagement and communication strategies, community engagement plans, communication materials, social performance plans and/or social impact assessments for a diverse range of clients.
- Preparing reports, developing communication materials, organising and attending community events, delivering stakeholder workshops and client presentations.
- Working with team members to build and develop their skills to ensure the continuing success of the team.

**What would you bring to the team?**
- Proven experience working in stakeholder engagement, communication and/or social performance projects in one or more of GHD’s market sectors (property and buildings, transport, water, energy and resources, and environment).
- A tertiary qualification (e.g. Bachelor’s degree) in social science, communication, commerce or related discipline.
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills together with the capacity to be flexible and adaptable.
- An ability to understand and analyse complex information, and conduct quantitative and qualitative research.
- Good commercial acumen and professional networks, with previous business development or consultancy experience considered desirable.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, including the ability to manage conflict and conversations with external stakeholders.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including meetings and presentations both internally and externally.
- Proven leadership qualities with the ability to manage people, resources, and workloads.

**Contact Antonia Tomassone**

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There may be government or client requirements which require an up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination for this position.

GHD embraces hybrid work arrangements to create a work environment focused on well-being, flexibility and productivity where GHD people can thrive, this supports the diverse needs of our workforce while balancing the benefits of remote working with the value of face-to-face collaboration in the office.
- We respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage._

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**are**

We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly ‘One GHD’ across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting re