Company

Tetra Tech CoffeySee more

addressAddressMelbourne, VIC
type Form of workFull time
CategoryConsulting

Job description

  • Accelerate your career growth within our established environmental and social consulting group
  • Diverse variety of interesting and engaging projects across multiple sectors
  • Social impact and performance focus - domestic and international projects

Fabulous career opportunity for an experienced specialist Social Consultant to join a top tier consultancy; variety of interesting projects; flexible work/work from home; supportive and close-knit team!

We have over 40 years’ experience in delivering large-scale environmental and social impact assessments across the Asia-Pacific region. Our clients in the resources, energy, renewables, infrastructure, and development sectors, engage us as trusted advisors to manage their environmental and social risks and to deliver high quality solutions for critical projects across Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Asia Pacific.

About the role

You’ll join a collaborative and professional team that works together with our offices across the Asia-Pacific region, and you’ll be supported by our Principals to manage and deliver projects for our clients.

You’ll provide advice and support to clients on social performance aspects across the full project life cycle and will contribute/manage the project delivery of social impact technical studies and assessments, reports, proposals, and correspondence.

More specifically, you will:

  • Prepare social baseline studies including demographics, infrastructure, livelihoods, and local customs
  • Identify key stakeholders; prepare consultation and stakeholder engagement materials, conduct key informant interviews, focus groups, and facilitate public consultation meetings
  • Identify, analyse, and assess social impacts in terms of significance, scale, and importance
  • Using quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, evaluate potential cumulative and indirect impacts of planned change in communities
  • Develop strategies to mitigate negative impacts and enhance positive ones
  • Document, report, and monitor engagement outcomes encompassing social, economic, and cultural heritage matters

The role will provide you the opportunity to contribute and lead social change projects, collaborate and learn from our Principal Social Consultants, and travel and work with communities and Indigenous people in the South Pacific.

About you

For success in the role, you’ll need:

  • Tertiary qualifications in a social science discipline
  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in supporting/delivering social impact assessments, preferably within a consulting context
  • Experience in preparing social baseline studies
  • Competence in employing quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and complex data analysis and evaluation
  • Experience in stakeholder engagement and consultation
  • Experience in report writing for social impact assessments and technical studies along with engagement outcomes encompassing social, economic, and cultural heritage matters

We’re committed to providing a workplace where you are given the opportunity to excel at what you do. We pride ourselves on supporting personal and professional development and ensuring you have the tools and training to achieve the highest level of success.

You’ll enjoy these benefits:

  • We support you to make space for the other parts of your life - flexible and hybrid work, study breaks and leave purchase plans enabling you to have up to 8 weeks of annual leave per year!
  • Opportunities to work across a wide variety of projects, clients and sectors
  • Professional development opportunities including coaching by our approachable technical experts
  • Professional memberships
  • Reward and recognition program
  • Participation in company ownership through our employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid parental leave for primary and secondary care givers
  • Employee assistance program available to all staff and their immediate families
  • Multiple Employee Resource Groups that support employees to create collaborative, safe space teams with others who share diverse backgrounds and experiences
  • Travel discounts through our corporate traveller program

About us

Every day, our people come together to find solutions for our clients’ complex challenges. Our experts are at the forefront of their specialisation in engineering, geotechnical, environmental, and project management services.

Whether in Australia, New Zealand, or collaborating on projects across the globe, you’ll be part of a team of over 27,000 professionals committed to affecting positive change.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We care about what makes us different - and it’s our people. We understand that uniqueness delivers new thinking. Our clients do too.

We’re committed to providing a working environment where all employees are valued for their unique contributions and ensuring a workforce which reflects the diversity of our clients and the communities in which we work.

Tetra Tech Coffey Pty Ltd is a member of the Diversity Council Australia.

Tetra Tech Coffey (NZ) Limited is a member of the Diversity Works NZ.

Refer code: 1387290. Tetra Tech Coffey - The previous day - 2024-01-30 17:32

Tetra Tech Coffey

Melbourne, VIC
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