Community Liaison Officer
Location: Birmingham
Talented people are the key to our success
About us:
Would you like to work for a progressive and ambitious company which is also one of the most successful within the UK construction and infrastructure industry?
Morgan Sindall provides national construction and infrastructure services to private and public sector customers across a comprehensive range of markets. We aim to create great results for our customers, partners and ourselves.
Read more about our Highways work here - https://construction.morgansindall.com/roads
Opportunity:
We have a fantastic opportunity within our Highways business for an ambitious and talented Community Liaison Officer within the Joint Venture Fusion for HS2.
Reporting to the Community Engagement Manager, the Community Liaison Officer will provide a central point of contact to local communities whilst undertaking engagement work comprising of engagement activities, meetings, events and consultations, to establish, build and maintain relationships with local residents, businesses, community and stakeholders groups. The Community Liaison Officer will be an operation lead for specific work areas to ensure that communities are engaged in Fusion JV's Work Area Plans to ensure that project risk is mitigated from within the community.
We are looking for people who share our passion for the project at hand whilst also being able to work within a fun and hardworking team environment.
Responsibilities:
As a Community Liaison Officer you will:
- Establish, build and maintain positive relationships with all stakeholder groups, therefore the CLO will be based within their designated local area for approx. 3-4 days a week
- Respond to stakeholder complaints and enquiries, and resolve within set timescales
- Manage day to day community engagement activities for specific work areas
- Attend regular public events acting as a representative of Fusion JV
- Seek ways to mitigate community harm and maximise community benefit
As the Community Liaison Officer, you will be confident in communicating in an appropriate style to a wide audience, and be educated to degree level or demonstrable experience. You will demonstrate good ability to diplomatically and emphatically handle stakeholder complaints.
About the Fusion Team:
Fusion (a joint venture of Morgan Sindall, BAM Nuttall and Ferrovial Agroman) has been awarded the Central package of HS2’s three enabling works contracts, (South, Central and North).
The contract includes the early preparatory work needed ahead of the main civil engineering work for the scheme, including archaeology, site clearance and setting up construction compounds. The contract will be worth up to £100m to Morgan Sindall Group over a period of four years.
Morgan Sindall is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.
Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
In the recruitment process all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation.