We are now looking to recruit a Community Relations Officer to join the team.
About the project
CMDP is a joint venture between Costain and MWHT and delivers a range of schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water’s water supply and wastewater treatment works in the eastern half its region (Kent & Sussex).
Key Responsibilities
• Manage dissemination of relevant up to date information between project delivery teams and client/external parties
• Assist with client communications – internal / external – including social media/flyers/filming
• Assist project delivery teams with communications with all relevant 3rd Parties (emergency services, utilities, businesses/communities, and access & acquisitions) either directly or through respective client teams
• Respond to complaints and enquiries (including liaison with UU Planning team on formal responses to planning objections/comments) and manage communication of any post agreement/approval changes
• Organising volunteers / STEM Ambassadors and Apprentices / Work experience placements / Site Visits
• Liaise with local authorities around the project either directly or alongside client stakeholder teams
• Assist with production of graphics to be included in presentations and external publicity (including fliers, PowerPoint, and Word documents)
About you
• Excellent organisational and communication skills
• Be able to manage a heavy workload, have excellent interpersonal skills, written and oral communication skills and IT skills with experience of using Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams packages
• A positive approach to supporting team members and working independently to meet or exceed all the requirements of internal audits and Client expectations
• You will have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate confidently and assertively with a variety of people at all levels
• A friendly and approachable attitude with a “can do” attitude
• It would be desirable to have experience working in construction / major projects
About Costain
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Your application
Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com
We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.
We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.
To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:
https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/
Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we’ll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.
For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.
Closing date
Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
