Project and Engagement Manager

Circa £45000 to £48,000, dependent on skills & experience per annum

Full time/37 hrs a week/permanent

Location: Peterborough & Homeworking

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you with hybrid working, with an average of 2-3 days a week in the office as required.

Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team!

Anglian Water's Shop Window is a real location; a place where we can accelerate innovation and improve our assets, processes and people. Our aim is to build the water company of the future and through creating the space for our business to develop, test, and trial it has allowed us to evaluate our future operating model within a real part of our region.
By creating a physical and virtual incubator for Anglian Water to pilot new ideas, technologies and processes, we will learn how to solve our current and future challenges, develop our people and ultimately achieve our strategic priorities. Once proven, successful innovations will be rolled out to the wider Anglian region to maximise the benefits to our customers, environment and business.

What you'll be doing:

As our Project and Engagement Manager, you will be responsible for engaging both internal and external stakeholders in the delivery of projects within the Research and Innovation programme. You will be responsible for delivering innovation projects which will also include managing teams built up from members of staff from across Anglian Water as well as line managing university students and contractors when required.
You will be responsible for supporting the Strategic Innovation and Shop Window Lead to identify new projects or avenues to explore through the Shop Window. You will also have the opportunity to support and deliver projects as part of the Ofwat Innovation Fund. This will require the ability to get to a working knowledge of many parts of our organisation, understand the priorities of our business, work with stakeholders to articulate problems to external solution providers and to articulate the opportunity of external suppliers to internal parties.
Alongside this, you will support and work alongside the Shop Window, Supplier Engagement and Communications functions of Research & Innovation as well as the wider innovation ecosystem for the development, delivery and integration of projects through the Shop Window.

As a valued employee you'll be entitled to:

-Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
-Personal private health care
-Annual bonus scheme
-Opportunity to volunteer do unpaid work in the community
-26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
-Life Cover at 8x your salary
-Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
-Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

What does it take to be successful?

- Previous Project Management experience is preferred.
- Operational experience (water and/or water recycling) would be an advantage.
- Self-motivated with experience of working autonomously and independently, but within the boundaries of an established Project and communications plan.
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to forge effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Experience of communicating with different audiences across a range of channels.
- Experience of translating complicated topic into engaging and easy-to-understand communications.
- Credibility and confidence to be the external face of the business.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Confident presenting to an audience.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community's Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women's Utility Network.

Please don't be put off if you don't have all the skills required for the position, if you're passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference then we'd love to hear from you.

Closing date: 19/03/2024

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