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Job Description
Location – Birmingham
Base salary: £54,878pa to c.£64,562pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% paid on top base salary and fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits – check them out in the Benefits section on our website.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice this means we provide positive and inclusive working environment, flexible working, support to staff networks and personal and professional development opportunities.
About the Role
- 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.
- To be accountable for demonstrating how the Delivery Teams (IPTs) are delivering the Community Engagement strategy through a regular output of data and quality case studies and are responding to and acting on intelligence gathered through the Community Engagement Insight programme.
- To be responsible for ensuring Delivery Team (IPT) plans for local engagement are in line with the HS2 Community Engagement Strategy and consistent with the approach set out by HS2 Client (route-wide teams) whilst ensuring Delivery Teams are responding to local enquiries and complaints to the standards and timeframes required.
- To be responsible for the oversight and assurance of the programme and quality of engagement plans, activities and materials delivered by the Delivery Teams (IPTs).
- To be accountable for working with Delivery Teams (IPTs) to ensure relationships are built and maintained with key local stakeholders and within the local communities.
- To lead on the relationships with key senior stakeholders and support the Public Affairs team.
- To be accountable for ensuring quality delivery of community investment programmes within the IPT.
- To be responsible for ensuring quality delivery of engagement to promote the benefits and legacy of HS2 to maximise opportunities and build understanding and support from local stakeholders and communities, including jobs and skills and the Community and Environment Fund (CEF) and Business and Local Economy Fund (BLEF).
Skills
- Prioritisation – Able to work to tight deadlines in a calm manner.
- Communication Skills – ability to present in a high profile public environment (including media).
- Ability to build and maintain strong and collaborative relationships, often under complex, political and challenging environments.
- Documentation – ability to produce documents and reports which are clear and persuasive to tight deadlines.
- Ability to provide oversight, assurance and guidance in a complex, political and fast paced environment.
- Ability to act objectively, while maintaining impartiality, integrity and independence.
- An ability to achieve personal credibility by exercising judgement and objectivity.
- Ability to influence and listen, with the ability to develop collaborative relationships with a range of stakeholders and partners.
- Able to manage political ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Planning and financial skills, with the ability to deliver projects and activities on time and within budget.
- Ability to lead a team and manage performance.
- This is a public facing role which requires empathy and understanding of those affected.
Knowledge
- Understanding of the complex political environment within which HS2 operates, including relevant governance and accountability issues.
Type of Experience
- Experience of implementing innovative solutions in stakeholder and community engagement in a diverse and challenging environment.
- Experience of leading high-profile community or stakeholder management against challenging timescales and developing requirements.
- Experience of providing counsel at a senior leadership level across an organisation on community and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience of working with senior stakeholders and Delivery Teams, overseeing and managing the delivery of engagement activities.
- Experience of working in a political and/or regulated environment/sector.
- Experience of dealing with fast paced local or national media.
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.
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Location: Birmingham
Job Description:
Job Description
Location – Birmingham
Base salary: £54,878pa to c.£64,562pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% paid on top base salary and fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits – check them out in the Benefits section on our website.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice this means we provide positive and inclusive working environment, flexible working, support to staff networks and personal and professional development opportunities.
About the Role
- 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.
- To be accountable for demonstrating how the Delivery Teams (IPTs) are delivering the Community Engagement strategy through a regular output of data and quality case studies and are responding to and acting on intelligence gathered through the Community Engagement Insight programme.
- To be responsible for ensuring Delivery Team (IPT) plans for local engagement are in line with the HS2 Community Engagement Strategy and consistent with the approach set out by HS2 Client (route-wide teams) whilst ensuring Delivery Teams are responding to local enquiries and complaints to the standards and timeframes required.
- To be responsible for the oversight and assurance of the programme and quality of engagement plans, activities and materials delivered by the Delivery Teams (IPTs).
- To be accountable for working with Delivery Teams (IPTs) to ensure relationships are built and maintained with key local stakeholders and within the local communities.
- To lead on the relationships with key senior stakeholders and support the Public Affairs team.
- To be accountable for ensuring quality delivery of community investment programmes within the IPT.
- To be responsible for ensuring quality delivery of engagement to promote the benefits and legacy of HS2 to maximise opportunities and build understanding and support from local stakeholders and communities, including jobs and skills and the Community and Environment Fund (CEF) and Business and Local Economy Fund (BLEF).
Skills
- Prioritisation – Able to work to tight deadlines in a calm manner.
- Communication Skills – ability to present in a high profile public environment (including media).
- Ability to build and maintain strong and collaborative relationships, often under complex, political and challenging environments.
- Documentation – ability to produce documents and reports which are clear and persuasive to tight deadlines.
- Ability to provide oversight, assurance and guidance in a complex, political and fast paced environment.
- Ability to act objectively, while maintaining impartiality, integrity and independence.
- An ability to achieve personal credibility by exercising judgement and objectivity.
- Ability to influence and listen, with the ability to develop collaborative relationships with a range of stakeholders and partners.
- Able to manage political ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Planning and financial skills, with the ability to deliver projects and activities on time and within budget.
- Ability to lead a team and manage performance.
- This is a public facing role which requires empathy and understanding of those affected.
Knowledge
- Understanding of the complex political environment within which HS2 operates, including relevant governance and accountability issues.
Type of Experience
- Experience of implementing innovative solutions in stakeholder and community engagement in a diverse and challenging environment.
- Experience of leading high-profile community or stakeholder management against challenging timescales and developing requirements.
- Experience of providing counsel at a senior leadership level across an organisation on community and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience of working with senior stakeholders and Delivery Teams, overseeing and managing the delivery of engagement activities.
- Experience of working in a political and/or regulated environment/sector.
- Experience of dealing with fast paced local or national media.
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.
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Posted: May 20th, 2026