Job Description

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Join a global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanization.

Future of Water (FoW) is one of GHD's Strategic Growth Initiatives (SGIs); it sets a strategic direction to guide the work GHD does for water clients and organizes our people around a common, client-centric purpose - to deliver positive water outcomes that respect nature and nurture communities.

We have an opportunity for an Engagement, Change & Communications Manager to develop a communication and change management plan to maximize the impact within GHD of the FOW program and investment funding. Pivotal to this will play an active role in supporting our FoW leaders and clients through the agile lean-start-up approach. This position can be based in most GHD office locations in Canada or the U.S. GHD supports a hybrid work model.

Some focus areas will include:

• Adapts plan and priorities to address resource and operational challenges across the program in support of agile methodology.
• Works collaboratively with leaders and members of other Strategic Growth Initiatives (SGIs) to ensure alignment.
• Prepares content, multi-media, design of events and client interactions, facilitation, and hosting as well as participating in team activities.
• Builds, monitor's and engages with community of interest and other stakeholders to maximize effectiveness and impact.
• Supports specific funding Water initiatives with teams and leaders.
• Engages authentically and regularly with clients to implement agile client engagement and validation of value propositions.
• Assist with monitoring, tracking, and reporting on ROI measures associated with new business targets and annual external positioning programs
• Supports strategic pursuits and partnerships as required

We are looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Change Management or similar with sound experience in the development and execution of OCM.
• Proven experience in leading and collaborating with program teams and leadership teams to innovate, design, evolve and deliver on initiatives.
• A trusted advisor who can engage, consult, and influence across a diverse stakeholder group.
• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to present and facilitate across multiple groups effectively.
• Effectively to provide advice and direction to GHD people across the organization.
• MS Project, Excel, Word, Powerpoint

As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status or veteran status.

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About Us:

Why GHD?

Being the best we can be is in our culture.
We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

Our commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Who we are

We are committed to solving the world's biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly 'One GHD' across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.