Job Description

About the role

Here at Balfour Beatty, our work inspires communities and advances society. Our commitment to sustainability looks even further generations further. Join our Living Places team as a Sehtakolder Communications Manager and you\'ll be part of our legacy.

Maintain market leading Customer Service and Communications teams to provide seamless communications and engagement strategies to our stakeholders and customers and bring best practice in digital and physical communications to improve service delivery.

What you\'ll be doing

As a Stakeholder Communications Manager, you will have the following accountabilities:

• Develop and lead on delivery of communication and engagement strategies to all stakeholders across East Sussex
• Deliver market leading PR, communications, and stakeholder engagement
• Coordinate depot events for members and interested stakeholders
• Conduct regular trend analysis through Social tool and NHS surveys to identify emerging issues and refine communications strategy
• Public facing web site management and content creation
• Manage and develop a strategic approach to core stakeholder engagement (Ward members, parishes and community groups) using the principles of the five levels of engagement to form part of the overreaching contract communication strategy.

Who we\'re looking for

You will have the following:

• Excellent communications and relationship building skills
• Proven experience and understanding of delivering effective communications through social media platforms
• Has experience in PR / Comms / Stakeholder Management
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Confident in presenting to diverse audiences
• Understands and responds to political environments and agendas.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence \'Employer Recognition Scheme\' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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