We're looking for a Public Liaison Officer to join our Transportation team based in Southwark. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Union Street, Southwark, SE1

Hours: 18 month fixed term contract, 45 hours per week 

What will you be responsible for?

As Public Liaison Officer, you'll be working within the Project team, supporting them in developing and implementing stakeholder management plans, engaging with stakeholders, residents, and local organisations, keeping them up to date on our schemes program and delivery, hearing, understanding and implementing community voices into the stakeholder management plan.

Your day to day will include:

• Stakeholder engagement on infrastructure projects / public realm projects, active involvement in the project lifecycle, presenting regular updates to stakeholders at all levels, planning events, addressing concerns regarding traffic disruptions, accessibility, and environmental impacts for stakeholder management, facilitating meetings with client Communications team, keeping the project heading in the right direction
• Being onsite throughout the project, keeping all information up to date and accurate, sharing the build programme, construction phasing and traffic management proposals with all relevant stakeholders
• Achieving the planned goals on the scheme, monitoring and recording working hours on projects, supporting weekly collaborative planning sessions, hitting program deadline and milestones
• Developing an organisational culture within schemes that embodies the values of TKJV
• Aiding communications and relationships with other teams, customers, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and government agencies for the schemes

What are we looking for?

This role of Public Liaison Officer is great for you if:

• You hold experience in the public domain, passionate about inclusivity in public infrastructure projects, adept at communication, advocating for equality, and collaborating with stakeholders at all levels / working on highway infrastructure projects 
• Can drive / hold a manual driving licence 
• Are well organised, proactive and can work collaboratively to tight program deadlines

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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