Job summary

A busy London borough is looking for a Engagement Officer to aid in the regeneration of a busy London high street.

Key skills required for this role

Project Management, Engagement, Consultation

Important

Engagement Officer

Job description

• Most important aspect is they need someone who has good written skills.
• Someone who can do first draft of a lot of the reports and documents so they can advance them.
• Someone who can act as a Project Manager to look at all the difference pieces
• Also supporting in Engagement and other strategic work streams
• Strong Engagement and administrative skills.
• Someone who is organised.
• At least 3 years' experience
• Someone who does have some experience with an Urban Policy or worked within the Communications Office for an Architectural firm.
• Or someone with local authority experience who has familiarity with building and producing reports.
• Someone familiar with the policies within Public Realm - someone who is used to communicating changes in Urban Spaces.
• Not a technical role and not looking for an Engineer.
• The sole technical skill is writing and Project Management skills.
• Looking for around £300/day to the candidate.
• Put the rate high enough where they can attract candidates with some experience.
• WFH - only 2 days in the office. Mondays and Tuesdays are the set days.
• However, for some engagement meetings, which they're pretty good at keeping them on Mondays/Tuesdays, they might need to be available for meetings on other days outside of the set office days.
• Budget to have someone in the programme till 2026.
• Length of contract - will check with Maria Davies but should be a 3/6 month rolling contract - hasn't raised a job order on Matrix before.
• Reporting to herself (Head of Strategy and Engagement).
• No line management responsibilities but they've used Consultants in the past for Consultation work which they may use again. The person in post will be responsible for overseeing their work.