Associate Director - Engagement and Change Advisory

We are looking for a senior leader in our Aurecon Engagement and Change NSW Advisory team. If you are our Unicorn, you’ll bring deep technical experience across a variety of infrastructure focussed industries delivering change and transformation, strategic communication or community and stakeholder engagement style services to clients.  You’ll thrive on diversity as you deliver great work for clients, uncover and respond to opportunities and lead and motivate teams to also deliver great work and build their career.

What’s in it for you:

• Working with and developing a collaborative high performing team
• Delivering programs of work on meaningful major infrastructure projects
• Career development and growth

What you can bring:

• Experience in consultation services and an understanding of the NSW/ACT market
• A strong infrastructure client network and proven success winning work for a broader team
• Experience delivering transformation and change or communications and engagement services

What you’ll do:

• Deliver industry leading practice across programs of work, providing solutions to client problems
• Grow business in the infrastructure sector by building and managing a pipeline of work
• Lead people and teams to deliver great work and, develop and grow

How will your ideas contribute to shaping what’s next?

Engagement & Change Advisory (ECA) comprises three core capabilities: Communications & Stakeholder Engagement, Social Value and Change and Transformation. The continued growth of our ECA practice provides the opportunity for an experienced, senior team member with expertise in one or more of these capabilities to join our NSW Lead Team in the Sydney office reporting to the NSW ECA Practice Leader.

Our Engagement and Change Advisory team work across a variety of major infrastructure projects throughout NSW and ACT, as well as closely collaborating with our extended teams across Australia and New Zealand.

This role will play an important role to deliver, grow and lead. The below brings these three themes to life.

The role and your experience

Deliver: As a team leader, you will work with clients to deliver projects end-to-end. As an established consultant your experience is broad enabling you to adapt to a diverse range of project settings. Your comprehensive knowledge of our ECA capability area(s) allows you to assess, plan and implement programs that solve our clients’ problems. You have experience engaging at all levels of an organisation and are accustomed to engaging senior leaders/executives to achieve project outcomes.

We will wrap support around you when you need it and empower you when you tell us you’ve got it. You will have access to some of the industries brightest minds committed to your personal success and development.

Grow: Growth is at the heart of our business, and bringing in new and interesting work enables our people to learn and develop. As a leader in our Sydney team, you will support a pipeline of future opportunities, actively contribute to business development, and shape successful proposals that differentiate us the market. Although not mandatory, previous experience in Management Consulting (e.g. big 4, change consulting) will greatly support your success in this role. For us, business development is a team sport and you will be supported by your leaders, peers and team to achieve shared success.

Lead: This role requires an adaptable and dynamic leader. Beyond supporting and developing direct reports, your leadership extends to project teams/streams and client relationships.

How will your future be shaped by us?

Joining Aurecon means you’ll be at the award-winning edge of innovation and sustainability. AFR ranked us Top 5 among sustainability leaders and Top 3 of all innovative companies in professional services. One Consult awarded us an innovative design award. Plus, we were Consult Australia’s large firm of the year.

You really can bring your whole self to work and be confident your voice will be heard. We don’t just claim we’re inclusive and innovative, as proven by the independent awards and accreditations we’ve gained. We’ve been recognised for our innovation culture, gender equality and our LGBTI inclusion. Plus, we have a robust Reconciliation Action Plan – our fourth edition since 2014.

On a personal level you’ll have access to flexible work hours, remote work, working holidays, part-time and job share options. When it comes to your development you’ll be supported on every step of your career journey with mentoring, leadership training and our Career Hub. Outside of work, you’ll be further supported with competitive paid parental leave, cultural public holiday swaps, plus wellbeing support programmes.  Ready to bring ideas to life?  Apply to join us