As a Stakeholder Engagement Manager at HS2, you will be part of our team that will work directly with Local Authorities, Major Asset Owners and stakeholders along the line of route for our second phase of construction between Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. Through building relationships as well as proactive and reactive engagement activities with stakeholder groups you will become the go-to person in those communities who can be trusted to listen to and act on their concerns.,

• Plan and deliver engagement activities focusing on a particular territory along the line of route;
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the key issues, needs and concerns of the communities, and work with the HS2 business to find solutions to these issues;
• Develop relationships with individuals and communities so you understand their concerns and become the main point of contact both within HS2 and these communities;
• Develop effective working relationships with key technical internal stakeholders;
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of engagement activities, using a continuous improvement approach to fine tune the process.
  
  Experience of planning and delivering engagement activity with local authorities, businesses, down to local community members;
• Knowledge of best practice community engagement and how to deliver this;
• Experience of project management;
• Experience of build working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders;
• An understanding of political ambiguity and the resilience to change approach when required;
• Ability to work remotely and travel along the line of route;
• Ability to manage mobile/remote teams;
• Experience of working with diverse communities;
• It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
  
  High Speed 2 (HS2) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd is a safety critical organisation with safety being one of our core values. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to the HS2 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.