Job Purpose:
The job holder will be required to provide support to Capital Programme (CP) projects whilst developing stakeholder engagement strategies across UK Power Networks and the Alliance, in line with company best practice and provide support to the CP senior team for engagement admin duties, meetings, and working groups. Principal Accountabilities: Working closely 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 & technical organisations), industry & business, land & property, communities, residents and other parties to establish strong working relationships. Development and successful delivery of stakeholder engagement plans in accordance with the overarching stakeholder engagement strategy. Manage stakeholder mapping and prepare communications to stakeholders and respond to stakeholder enquiries. Supporting all Project Managers with a focus on the drive 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 be able to report on activities and provide integral data to Ofgem and the wider UKPN stakeholder engagement team (either via 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. Provide input into 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 functions within the company are headed by the Head of Engineering who reports to the Director of Capital Programme. Within each project, the Stakeholder Engagement Lead (SPN) reports to the portfolio and programme managers of that region (SPN), AMT and SMT members. As the Stakeholder Engagement Lead for SPN, the job holder is responsible for managing stakeholder mapping and prepare communications to stakeholders as well as respond to stakeholder enquiries. The Stakeholder Engagement Lead’s function is organised as three sections: Manage and coordinate stakeholder management across SPN supporting the Major Projects Consents Manager and the wider business through collaborative work, presentations, briefings, consultations events. Work on proactive and strategic engagement for projects through collaborative work, presentations, briefings, consultations events. Work on reactive and enquiry-based engagement for projects. Skills, Qualification and Experience: Preferred qualifications for role:
Educated to high A-level standard or equivalent in English Literature or equivalent. CIPR and relevant 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 in 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, key external stakeholders in the electricity utility businesses – including government, environmental, statutory authorities and business departments and agencies. Self-motivated able to lone work, but a strong team player being a lateral thinker with excellent negotiation skills and a confident and effective communicator with excellent public relations and influencing skills. Health & Safety Responsibilities:
Managers 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 fully 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 particularly where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied. Employees need to be aware that for some craft and operational roles that work at height, or use fall arrest devices, there is an upper weight limit of 116Kg due to maximum safe working load of the safety equipment that is used. 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.
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The job holder will be required to provide support to Capital Programme (CP) projects whilst developing stakeholder engagement strategies across UK Power Networks and the Alliance, in line with company best practice and provide support to the CP senior team for engagement admin duties, meetings, and working groups. Principal Accountabilities: Working closely 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 & technical organisations), industry & business, land & property, communities, residents and other parties to establish strong working relationships. Development and successful delivery of stakeholder engagement plans in accordance with the overarching stakeholder engagement strategy. Manage stakeholder mapping and prepare communications to stakeholders and respond to stakeholder enquiries. Supporting all Project Managers with a focus on the drive 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 be able to report on activities and provide integral data to Ofgem and the wider UKPN stakeholder engagement team (either via 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. Provide input into 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 functions within the company are headed by the Head of Engineering who reports to the Director of Capital Programme. Within each project, the Stakeholder Engagement Lead (SPN) reports to the portfolio and programme managers of that region (SPN), AMT and SMT members. As the Stakeholder Engagement Lead for SPN, the job holder is responsible for managing stakeholder mapping and prepare communications to stakeholders as well as respond to stakeholder enquiries. The Stakeholder Engagement Lead’s function is organised as three sections: Manage and coordinate stakeholder management across SPN supporting the Major Projects Consents Manager and the wider business through collaborative work, presentations, briefings, consultations events. Work on proactive and strategic engagement for projects through collaborative work, presentations, briefings, consultations events. Work on reactive and enquiry-based engagement for projects. Skills, Qualification and Experience: Preferred qualifications for role:
Educated to high A-level standard or equivalent in English Literature or equivalent. CIPR and relevant 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 in 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, key external stakeholders in the electricity utility businesses – including government, environmental, statutory authorities and business departments and agencies. Self-motivated able to lone work, but a strong team player being a lateral thinker with excellent negotiation skills and a confident and effective communicator with excellent public relations and influencing skills. Health & Safety Responsibilities:
Managers 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 fully 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 particularly where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied. Employees need to be aware that for some craft and operational roles that work at height, or use fall arrest devices, there is an upper weight limit of 116Kg due to maximum safe working load of the safety equipment that is used. 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.
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