Consultant - Performance, Participation and Change

**The Opportunity**:
WSP’s Performance Participation and Change Team is growing and we’re looking for client focused Consultants ready to join an awesome team with great clients successfully delivering interesting and challenging projects and top-notch client outcomes. We partner with our infrastructure and utility clients in multiple market sectors to navigate complex organisational challenges and holistically plan for, manage and implement major business transformation and change to raise the bar on operational performance and efficiency.

If you’ve got 3+ years of experience and are ready to take on a new challenge bridging the gap between technical engineering and infrastructure delivery and supporting our client organisations to deliver on their vision we’d love to hear from you.

**The following skills will help shape your success in the role but we recognise you may not posesses them all or may posses different, additional skills**:

- Business transition, transformation and change
- Process and performance improvement
- Implementation planning and delivery
- Operational and strategic planning
- Organisational and business design
- Workforce strategy and planning
- Capability development
- Leadership coaching and development
- Facilitation
- Stakeholder engagement and communications
- Business development
- Excellent communication and diplomacy skills
- AGSVA Security Clearance NV1 or NV2 advantageous but not compulsory

**Attitude and Ability**:

- Strong people focus, with capacity to understand business change impacts on teams and individuals and ability to support WSP’s clients to navigate complex change while balancing both employee, business and operational needs
- Lean-six sigma qualified (or an interest in developing Lean skills) with a focus on process and performance improvement supporting clients to transition to more efficient and effective ways of working
- Problem identifier-solver, able to balance strategic needs of clients with the practicalities of implementation and operationalising business change
- Ability to think at a strategic level, as well as ‘roll up sleeves’ to implement and transition our client’s businesses to new ways of working
- Support clients through major business change and transition, capacity to work with guidance at senior and executive management levels in client organisations, as well as connect at operational levels within these businesses
- Confidence to work independently as an embedded member of client’s teams, as well as be guided by our senior team members to further develop your skills and experience
- An understanding of infrastructure agencies and utilities strategic needs and direction would be advantageous including transport infrastructure (roads, rail, public transport), water industry, local government, and power and energy sectors
- Willingness to identify and build business opportunities, develop high quality winning client proposals and manage and maintain positive client relationships

**What we will offer you**:
At WSP we provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer many personal and professional development opportunities that are aimed to help you deliver your best self to the role whilst managing your personal life in balance. We have been recognised for the second consecutive year as a Great Place to Work® with year-on-year increases in employee engagement.
- Focus on work/life balance and the ability to build a stable career.
- Option to purchase extra leave to facilitate your dreams or obligations.
- Personalised career growth and training through our Award-winning L&D team.
- Paid Parental and Partner Leave.
- Corporate employee discounts and offers.
- Salary continuance insurance.
- Wellness at work & social club.
- Workplace giving /volunteering.
- Employee reward & recognition program.

**About us**:
With approximately 6,100 talented people based in more than 50 offices in Australia and New Zealand, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, environmental specialists, and other design, program, and construction management professionals. Our purpose is simple, we exist to future-proof our cities and our environment.
- WSP supports a diverse and inclusive work environment and equal employment opportunities. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people of culturally diverse background_

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