RPS has a vacancy for an ambitions recent social science / STEM / communications graduate who is interested in pursuing a career in project communications.
About The Role:
Táimid ag obair i bpáirt le pobail ar fud na hÉireann, agus le pobail na Gaeltachta san áireamh. Dá réir sin, cuirimid fáilte roimh iarraitais ó chainteoirí líofa sa Ghaeilge a bhfuil taithí acu ar bhainistíocht cumarsáide do thioscadail a bhaineann le córais uisce, iomar agus fuinneamh athnuaite.
This is a fulltime role (5 days per week) that may involve secondment to a client team. Following a successful probation period, hybrid working can be arranged (3 office days in Dublin or Cork).
Key Responsibilities:
- Devising and implementing communications plans
- Internal stakeholder engagement including liaison with technical colleagues and multi-disciplinary teams, preparing internal reports and presenting to internal meetings
- External stakeholder engagement including with clients contractors, residents’ associations, opposition groups and Local Authority Elected Members
- Writing - project briefing sheets, press releases, website articles, social media content, etc
- Message development to make technical / complex information accessible and relevant to householders, businesses, elected public representatives, and other stakeholders
- Delivering public information / public consultation open days/evenings and online events
- Organising, attending, presenting, and taking Minutes at stakeholder meetings
- Event management for Ministerial sod turnings and official openings of clients projects
- Stakeholder mapping, relationship management and maintaining up-to-date contact databases, in line with GDPR
- Taking responsibility for communications on projects to achieve the clients vision and objectives
- Due to the dynamic nature of the business, key responsibilities will evolve and change over time
Experience Required:
- Demonstrable experience of devising and implementing successful communications strategies, including developing communications collateral, media and social media campaigns, event management and stakeholder engagement
- 2-3 years professional experience ideally in communications / customer engagement / for utilities / construction / infrastructure projects
- Proven experience of delivering work in a deadline driven and evolving environment
- Experience of client relationships and client reporting
Essential Skills and Abilities:
- Outstanding interpersonal and relationship management skills for engaging with clients, colleagues, stakeholders, suppliers and media
- Highly organised and efficient, with extraordinarily strong attention to detail
- Appreciation of Ireland's national and local/regional media, political and current affairs landscape as well as Ireland's environmental and planning & development policy
- Fluency in written and spoken English essential; and fluency / experience working through Irish would be beneficial (but not essential)
- Exceptional literacy, storytelling, writing and editing skills with a proven ability to make complex technical information accessible and relevant to a wide range of audiences
- Experience using MS Office suite including PowerPoint
- Understanding / experience of issues management
- Able to work on own initiative; as part of a collaborative team; and able to supervise external suppliers
- A flexible and willing approach to working hours and travel to other locations throughout Ireland on occasion e.g., for open evening, project events
- Driving license and access to transport ideally.
Why RPS for you?
You will have the opportunity to work on interesting and challenging projects, different perspectives, styles of thinking and ideas are encouraged. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You will be joining us on our diversity journey, joining a company that puts its people first and prioritises their wellbeing.
You will have the choice of work flexibility, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard.
We are an accredited training provider and will support your learning and development. A personal development plan and transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you will be supported as far as you want to go. This is a workplace that works for you.
A career here is far from ordinary. Here you are not a number, you are part of the solution.
RPS, a Tetra Tech company:
Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, in January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With over 28,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.
Our projects are all around you. We define, design and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion on solving the problems that matter. You will be supported every step of the way. Here is where you come to build a career.
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We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We’re also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant. An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That’s why we’ve created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.
Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability.
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