Project Communications Manager

Job title:

Project Communications Manager

Company

RPS Group

Job description

Project Communications Manager

At RPS, a TetraTech company, we are a recognised global leader in multidisciplinary engineering, environmental, project communications and project management consultancy.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Project Communications Manager to lead a team of high performing professionals in delivering public consultation and stakeholder engagement for renewable energy projects. The successful candidate will work directly with clients and within multi-disciplinary teams to devise and implement public consultation strategies to inform policy and infrastructure projects including for renewable energy and sustainable transport.

We are also flexible on working hours and location among our offices in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Sligo.

About The Business:

In Ireland, we employ 600 of the most talented, high-performing professionals in the industry. We use our deep expertise to solve problems that matter.

About The Team:

Our project communications team is the market leader in public consultation and stakeholder engagement services in Ireland. We work in multi-disciplinary teams with engineers, environmental scientists, and town planners.

With 16 consultants we continue to grow due to a very strong pipeline of work including public consultation and stakeholder engagement to inform government policy and major infrastructure projects, in the areas of renewable energy, water and sustainable transport to deliver Ireland’s Climate Action Plan.

Our work makes a genuine difference to achieving a more sustainable future.

Duties:

• Be a trusted advisor to our clients and colleagues
• Trusted advisor to our clients and colleagues
• Devise and implement strategic communications plans
• Manage stakeholder engagement to build trust and social acceptance of projects
• Support business unit management through:

• Project resourcing and managing a team of high-performing professionals to ensure project deliverables and deadlines are achieved
• Client relationship management
• Financial management and reporting
• Business development and tendering

Required Experience and Skills:

• Highly motivated professional with a proven ability to perform at both strategic and operational levels
• 9+ years of relevant consulting / agency / contractor professional experience to include:

• Experience of leading, motivating and managing teams
• Experience of collaborating as part of multi-disciplinary project teams
• Financial management – commercially focused with strong financial acumen

• Ability to perform at both strategic and operational levels
• Outstanding interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Fluency in written and spoken English essential; experience of stakeholder engagement with Gaeltacht communities would be beneficial
• A flexible and willing approach to travel for work at project locations around Ireland
• Strong interest in current affairs, including an understanding of the Climate Action Plan and the Irish planning process along with enthusiasm for infrastructure delivery

Qualifications:

• Relevant academic qualifications include Communications, Geography, Environmental Science, Behavioural Economics, Law or Business

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 27,000 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. And where you’ll be supported every step of the way. Here is where you come to build a career.

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We know we develop better solutions together.
That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to ‘make complex easy’ – for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results.

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.

Recruitment Agencies
We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not on this list. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.

Expected salary

Location

Cork

Job date

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 01:04:14 GMT

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