We are seeking a talented and passionate Technical Director – Engagement and Communication to lead strategic engagement and communication initiatives across complex infrastructure, environmental, and energy projects.
Join GHD’s fast-growing engagement services area working with a network of communication and engagement services consultants across APAC to help deliver GHD’s vision of creating lasting community benefit.
This role is a fantastic opportunity for you to work with the Melbourne-based team and with clients who seek to manage risk and preparing communities for change.
- Lead the development and implementation of stakeholder and community engagement strategies and plans across the wide variety of projects that GHD are involved with
- Manage and successfully deliver complex projects for clients
- Develop and enhance client relationships, both existing and new growth areas
- Proactively identify new opportunities and convert these into proposals and close sales
- Contribute to high performing teams and drive delivery excellence
- Significantly contribute to the development of thought leadership artefacts
- Demonstrate management and leadership behaviours, coaches and mentors people, role models GHD behaviours
- Contributes to GHD’s strategic direction
- Formal qualifications in a Social Science/Communications/Commerce degree or similar; or appropriate transferable skills
- A great focus on client service and delivery
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills together with the capacity to be flexible and adaptable
- Excellent writing skills and the demonstrated capacity to produce high quality content written for a range of audiences and mediums
- Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to talk to members of the community and other key stakeholders as required
- Ability to work independently when required
- Sound judgement and decisiveness
At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.
That’s the #PowerOfCommitment
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.
Skills Required
- Formal qualifications in Social Science, Communications, Commerce, or equivalent transferable skills
- Experience leading stakeholder and community engagement strategies and plans across complex projects
- Proven experience managing and successfully delivering complex client projects
- Demonstrated client relationship development and business development capability, converting opportunities into proposals and sales
- Excellent writing skills with ability to produce high-quality content for varied audiences and mediums
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills with flexibility and adaptability
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to engage with community members and key stakeholders
- Ability to work independently when required
- Sound judgement and decisiveness
- Demonstrated management and leadership behaviours including coaching and mentoring team members
- Contribute to development of thought leadership artefacts
What We Do
GHD recognises and understands the world is constantly changing. We are committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. We are a global professional services company that leads through engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Our forward-looking, innovative approaches connect and sustain communities around the world. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are focused on building lasting relationships with our partners and clients. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals connected by over 200 offices, across five continents – Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region.
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