Stakeholder Engagement Senior Consultant

Job Description

Overview

AtkinsRéalis is looking for a Stakeholder Engagement Senior Consultant to support its growing Aviation business. Reporting to the Stakeholder Engagement Lead, this role will involve supporting stakeholder engagement activities across major aviation projects, ensuring structured, strategic engagement across diverse stakeholder groups, including regulatory bodies, airport operators, airlines, service providers, construction contractors and government agencies.

The successful candidate will typically work alongside Senior Stakeholder Engagement Professionals, supporting engagement planning, communications, and risk mitigation across aviation transformation programmes, business and supply chain change initiatives, and infrastructure developments, both in the UK and internationally.

Your role

• Map and analyse stakeholder environments (internal and external) for clients.
• Assist in the development and implementation of stakeholder engagement strategies and plans for aviation transformation and infrastructure projects.
• Lead and support engagement with key stakeholders, including airport operators, regulatory agencies, airlines, government bodies, service providers, construction contractors and other industry partners.
• Proactively consider interdependencies between stakeholders and project activities, acting as a voice of reason to support risk mitigation and assess the wider impact of change, design, or programme activities.
• Maintain stakeholder mapping tools, engagement logs, and risk registers.
• Facilitate, coordinate and support workshops, stakeholder forums, and engagement meetings, ensuring clear communication and collaboration.
• Assist in the preparation of briefing materials, presentations, and engagement reports by working with clients leads, project subject matter experts, and communications specialists.
• Support executive-level stakeholder engagement, including briefing leaders and preparing reports on stakeholder-related matters.
• Assist with proposals and bid activities as required.
• Manage and guide junior team members, ensuring best practices in stakeholder engagement are embedded across all projects.

About you

• Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, public affairs, or communications.
• Experience working within an airline and/or airport operations.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience managing high-profile stakeholder engagement activities, particularly in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong facilitation skills, with the ability to lead workshops, forums, and structured discussions.
• Ability to assess stakeholder concerns, risks, and opportunities, providing strategic recommendations.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to learn from experienced professionals and develop expertise in stakeholder engagement.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Communications, Change Management, Public Affairs, Business, Engineering, or Aviation).
• Experience in aviation, infrastructure, or business change projects is beneficial.
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks and stakeholder engagement principles.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.