Environment Advocacy Communications Consultant

About the Role

Join AECOM's Environment consulting practice and play a vital role in shaping significant infrastructure and development programs. Based in India, you will work with UK and international project teams to deliver engagement and consultation strategies for transformational projects across transportation, energy, water, urban development, and major infrastructure. This role offers the opportunity to develop specialist expertise in stakeholder engagement and public consultation within a global environment, gaining exposure to international best practices and complex infrastructure programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Communications:
• Support the development of communications strategy and delivery plans for major infrastructure projects, including Infrastructure Consent projects and DCOs primarily in the UK.
• Develop themes, core messages, and collateral for multiple audiences and stakeholders, including digital users, the media, local communities, statutory bodies, technical groups, and elected representatives.
• Identify creative ways to communicate complex ideas to a wide audience.
• Manage communications channels and engage directly with local communities.
• Engagement and Consultation:
• Identify and map key stakeholders for client projects, and establish an engagement strategy and delivery plans.
• Support consultation delivery, developing surveys, managing stakeholder feedback channels, and analyzing consultation responses.
• Plan and deliver events, both physical and virtual, ensuring attendee safety and well-being, managing logistics, developing tailored materials, and creating Q&As.
• Client Relations:
• Liaise with internal and external clients, ensuring a high level of customer service and accurate, timely reporting.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience in stakeholder engagement, communications, public affairs, consultation, community relations, corporate communications, public policy, social impact, or related disciplines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to simplify complex information for diverse audiences.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, multidisciplinary, and international environment.
• Interest in infrastructure, transportation, urban development, energy, environmental services, or major capital projects.
• Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret stakeholder feedback and identify key insights.
• Value for inclusion, accessibility, and meaningful community participation.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Communications, Public Policy, Political Science, Sociology, Social Sciences, Public Relations, Geography, Planning, Business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent number of years of successful, relevant experience.
• Preferred: Experience supporting infrastructure, transportation, energy, utilities, environmental, or urban development projects.
• Preferred: Exposure to UK, European, or international projects.
• Preferred: Experience with stakeholder mapping, consultation delivery, survey design, communications planning.