Salary £47k - £52k, salary depending on skills and experience
Full time/37 hrs a week/permanent
Location: Worldwide House, Peterborough (a minimum of twice a week, with occasional travel to London)
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach. This role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from your base location which will be Worldwide House in Peterborough.
Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team!
Anglian Water’s Major Infrastructure Team helps to meet tomorrow’s challenges today, by planning and delivering high-quality major infrastructure for the East of England. This new infrastructure will help address major future challenges such as securing water supply for future generations, reaching net zero, adapting to climate change and restoring the environment, while delivering new jobs, creating improved opportunities for people in communities across the region and boosting local economies.
We lead the planning for what are regarded as major infrastructure projects, more widely known as Nationally Significant Infrastructure projects (NSIPs) and other accelerated infrastructure schemes. They are transformational projects that, if delivered, could contribute greatly to Anglian Water’s purpose (to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to love every drop) and meeting our strategic direction objectives. The ones you may already be familiar with are our two new proposed reservoirs in Lincolnshire and the Fens. We are also in the early stages of planning for some accelerated AMP8 projects which are new pipelines and water reuse schemes.
Effective stakeholder engagement is critical to the development of the Fens and Lincolnshire Reservoirs Projects. The approach to stakeholder engagement has been defined within the Lincolnshire and Fens Reservoirs Stakeholder Engagement Framework. The Framework supports effective engagement and regulatory compliance, providing guidance to help deliver a successful pre-application process and DCO application that is accepted for Examination.
As Relationship Lead, you'll own and proactively manage a defined portfolio of stakeholder relationships for the Lincolnshire Reservoir Project. You will develop a strong understanding of stakeholders' interests, priorities and concerns, ensuring engagement is planned, coordinated and supports both stakeholder needs and the project's programme and consenting requirements.
Working closely with technical and project teams, you will act as a key link between the project and its stakeholders, ensuring the right conversations take place at the right time, that stakeholder insight is understood within the project, and that actions, commitments, risks and issues are actively followed through.
You will maintain forward-looking engagement plans for your stakeholders, represent the project at meetings and, where appropriate, chair discussions. You will also support the development of key DCO outputs and help identify emerging issues and opportunities early, escalating these where necessary.
This is a hands-on relationship-management role requiring strong judgement, organisation and communication skills, alongside the confidence to work with senior colleagues, technical specialists and external stakeholders.
What does it take to be successful?
We're looking for a proactive and confident relationship professional who can build credibility with a wide range of stakeholders and work effectively across a complex project environment. You'll be comfortable working independently, bringing people together around difficult issues and turning complex technical information into clear, audience-appropriate communication.
Why Anglian Water?
Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and we’re proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do! If you’re passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference then we’d love to hear from you.
Anglian Water supply water and water recycling services to more than six million domestic and business customers in the east of England and Hartlepool. Our services are at the heart of every single family and community in our region. We clean water to the highest standard, deliver it to millions of homes, and carefully manage it to ensure it never runs out.
We’re the largest water and water recycling company in England and Wales by geographic area. We’re also one of the driest regions in the country, with just 600 millimetres of rain each year, on average a third less than the rest of England. In fact some areas have a lower annual rainfall than Jerusalem. That’s why it’s vital that we look after the water that we’ve got.
