London, UK
Engagement consultant
at Soundings
Soundings is hiring an engagement consultant to join its team in London.
About Soundings
Soundings is a community and stakeholder engagement consultancy with over 15 years’ experience working on some of the most significant and challenging built environment projects in London and the UK. We are a team of around 25 people working alongside sister company, Fluid. Our team come from a range of backgrounds including architecture, planning, urbanism and communications, with a common purpose to deliver better places through active participation. This makes for a rich environment and office culture.
Get to know us better by visiting our website www.soundingsoffice.com
The role
The engagement consultant role offers a unique opportunity to make genuine contributions to large-scale regeneration and strategic projects for London. Consultation processes generally involve extensive community outreach and mapping, developing creative techniques for people to participate in the design and development process in a meaningful way and ensuring high quality communications and feedback loops are maintained – including the use of websites and social media.
Responsibilities:
- work flexibly, in teams and across a number of jobs
- support teams to engage and consult with residents, community groups, business and the hard to reach including young people
- help design and produce content for pop-ups, exhibitions and workshops
- help plan and set up and take down events
- organise, attend and record meetings and events with a range of stakeholders
- database, analyse and report on findings from consultation
- keep engaged with relevant and cutting edge thinking
- handle other office duties as appropriate
Essential skills:
- educated to degree level in an urban design, planning or other allied field (architecture/geography/design/environment)
- experience using and working with Indesign
- have some experience in community consultation and engagement or through postgraduate studies
- competent level of IT skills (Microsoft Office: Word and Excel/CS Suite
- comfortable dealing with people in public, enjoy public interaction and be a good listener
Key qualities:
- proactive – take initiative to add creativity to consultation projects/events
- energetic and friendly – willing to engage with people
- timeliness and ability to react positively to last minute changes
- collaborative – projects often involve working as part of a larger consultant team that consist of architects, the council/developer and various other practitioners related to a development/regeneration project
- flexibility
What we offer:
- competitive salary
- 25 days holiday
- medical insurance and health cash plan
- life assurance scheme
- hybrid working policy
How to apply
Please submit a cover letter explaining why this is the ideal role for you along with your CV via the ‘apply for job’ button below.
The deadlines for applications is Friday 7 January 2022.
Interviews will be held W/C Monday 10 January 2022 in person on via Microsoft Teams.
Soundings is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and promote equality and inclusion. We welcome applications from all, regardless of personal characteristics or background.