Stakeholder Engagement Lead (South)

Job title: Stakeholder Engagement Lead (South)

Company: UK Power Networks


Job description: 80023 – Stakeholder Engagement Lead (South)This Stakeholder Engagement Lead (South) will report to the Major Projects Consents Manager and will work within Capital Programme based in our Crawley office. You will be a permanent employee.You will attract a salary of £51,245 plus car and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) – 3 days in the office and 2 remoteClose Date: 09/01/2025We also provide the following additional benefits

• 23 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
• Discounted access to sports and social clubs
• Employee Assistance Programme.

JOB PURPOSE:You will provide support to Capital Programme (CP) projects whilst developing stakeholder engagement strategies across UK Power Networks and the Alliance, following company best practice and provide support to the CP senior team for engagement admin tasks, meetings and working groups.PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES: * Working with the Major projects consents manager and project teams, manage engagement with project stakeholders across local authorities, Central Government, statutory and non-statutory bodies (including environment and technical organisations), industry and business, land and property, communities, residents and other parties to establish working relationships

• Develop stakeholder engagement plans following the overarching stakeholder engagement strategy
• Manage stakeholder mapping and prepare communications to stakeholders and respond to enquiries
• Support all Project Managers with a focus on the move towards Net Zero and Green Recovery for Major Projects across the SPN region with stakeholder engagement activities, providing guidance and directing their workload to ensure timescales and requirements are met. Provide administrative support for the project management teams, including; creation of the weekly SHEWQT Newsletter, SADS reporting, support with updating presentations
• Ensure accurate audit trail maintained for all stakeholder engagement and all contact/activities are recorded on stakeholder database to report on activities and provide important data to Ofgem and the wider UKPN stakeholder engagement team (either through Microsoft Form or Tractivity) through digitisation of forms. Assess and approve planned outage communication plans for the SPN region, supporting the Operations Manager for the area with auditing proposals for communications
• Contribute to weekly/monthly reports for PMO and Project Board and weekly Delivery Team conference call.
• Monthly internal engagement with relevant teams (Press team, Recruitment, Marketing, Service development team, contributing to the Alliance newsletter) to ensure consistency across the business
• Demonstrate creative methods of engagement with positive results with little to no budget

NATURE AND SCOPE:The stakeholder management responsibilities within the our business are headed by the Head of Engineering who reports to the Director of Capital Programme.Within each project, the Stakeholder Engagement Lead (South) reports to the portfolio and programme managers of that region (South, AMT and SMT members.The Stakeholder Engagement Lead’s function is organised as three sections:

• Manage stakeholder management across the South supporting the Major Projects Consents Manager and the wider business through collaborative work, presentations, briefings, and consultation events
• Work on proactive and strategic engagement for projects through collaborative work, presentations, briefings, and consultation events
• Work on reactive and enquiry-based engagement for projects

SKILLS, QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Educated to high A-level standard or equivalent in English Literature or equivalent.
• CIPR and industry experience. With a high level of technical understanding concerning the Customer journey, BMOC’s and Collaboration incentive opportunities.

Required qualifications for role:

• Competence and experience resolving Stakeholder Engagement matters relating to project delivery.
• Working knowledge of primary and secondary legislation concerning utilities’ operations; in particular, statutory instruments affecting electricity distribution assets.
• Familiar with the roles of, and relationships between, important external partners in the electricity utility businesses – including government, environmental, statutory authorities and business departments and agencies.
• Able to lone work, but a team player being a lateral thinker with excellent negotiation skills and excellent public relations skills.

Health & Safety ResponsibilitiesManagers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.If in doubt ask!We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Expected salary: £51245 per year

Location: Crawley, West Sussex

Job date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:38:58 GMT

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