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Job Description
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Stakeholder Engagement Consultant to join our team in the Republic of Ireland (Dublin, Cork or Galway). You’ll work in a collaborative, high-performing environment that prioritises wellbeing, flexibility, and professional growth.
Our well-established Stakeholder Engagement, Consultation and Communications team has been supporting the delivery of major infrastructure and development projects for almost 20 years. Most of our work revolves around engagement, consultation and communications during the consenting or construction phase of major infrastructure projects. We come from many diverse backgrounds and have been involved in a range of high-profile projects across sectors, working with other AECOM disciplines or providing standalone services for clients such as Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Dublin Airport Authority, and a range of Local Authorities across the country, and major energy and renewables companies.
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about delivering effective communications, who can demonstrate experience of engaging with and consulting a wide range of audiences to support complex projects, and who can support our projects across Ireland.
The role includes:
Communications:
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developing communications strategies and delivery plans
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developing project narratives, key messages and collateral for multiple audiences including digital users, the media, local communities, statutory bodies, technical groups, and elected representatives
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managing communications channels.
Engagement and consultation:
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identifying and mapping key stakeholders for client’s projects, and establishing an engagement strategy and delivery plans
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supporting consultation delivery, developing surveys, managing stakeholder feedback channels and analysing consultation responses
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planning and delivery of events, both physical and virtual, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all attendees, delivering logistics, developing tailored materials, developing Q&As and briefing colleagues.
Client relations:
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liaising with internal and external clients, ensuring a high level of customer service and accurate, timely reporting.
Business development:
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building connections within AECOM to identify new opportunities
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developing proposals and tender responses.
Does this sound like something you can do, and do well? If so, read on…
Qualifications
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You have experience delivering communications, engagement and consultation on projects of different sizes and scales, ideally including major infrastructure schemes.
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You have experience in at least some industry sectors relevant to our business (e.g. infrastructure, energy, water, transport, residential and commercial development), and are confident engaging a variety of audiences and stakeholder groups.
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You’re proactive and ambitious, work well both alone and in a team, and can bring about new ideas on engagement.
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You have great personal communication skills, are culturally aware, and have a strong focus on inclusion and accessibility. For you, giving people a chance to influence projects that affect their lives, is key.
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You’re willing to work flexibly and travel when required to meet with clients and project teams.
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You hold a degree in a relevant subject (for instance: social science, history, politics, geography, language and literature, law, business…), or an equivalent number of years of successful, relevant experience.
Additional Information
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (annemarieflynn).
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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- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
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 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, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. 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.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
