About the role

We are seeking Consultant level applicants (those early in their career with around 2-3 years’ experience) to support us deliver a range of interesting and challenging projects. If you are successful, you will work as part of our engagement and social impact team based in Sydney helping to design, deliver and report on stakeholder and community engagement programs, with a particular focus on identifying and quantifying social outcomes. You will be advocating for best practice in community engagement and social impact.

Writing skills are a key component of the role – you will be able to write succinct and compelling content that explains complex ideas in understandable ways. We would like you to submit an example of your writing as part of your application.

You will also work with digital and graphic designers to produce creative and engaging collateral; need to be skilled in analysing qualitative and quantitative data, drawing out insights and preparing high-quality reports; develop strong client and partner relationships and live our values of excellence, relationships, challenge, trust and care.

Our engagement and social impact team works across sectors; our current projects are focused on transport, energy, urban policy and social infrastructure.

We are focussed on you and your career, and we will be looking to build your skills technically and support your growth and development as part of your role. We have a flexible working environment, but there will be a need to work from our office as well as some travel for work, for example to attend workshops and community pop-ups/ displays. There will be occasional need to work on weekends and evenings.

About you

Your values are aligned to our values, and you want to help us achieve our purpose.

We are after someone who wants to learn and thrive in a dynamic team environment and have fun doing it. We are looking for an industrious and ambitious professional who believes in using engagement to truly understand the communities we work with and using understanding to shape better infrastructure outcomes. We want a great listener, and someone who relishes the challenge of bringing creative flair to their written and aural communication.

You are curious about the world, passionate about communities, and driven to make a positive impact. You are a collaborator and enjoy working in teams, you are self-motivated, diligent, and well-organised and you are keen to engage positively with the business, colleagues, our clients and the communities we work in. You know how to work productively and are keen to contribute to enhancing our brand and reputation, and are attracted to our values-based and social team culture.

Your professional values and attributes are important to us. You will have a relevant Bachelor-level university degree or a background in urban planning, public policy, communications, or social sciences. You will have experience or interest in community engagement and a strong understanding of the social, environmental, cultural and economic issues that face our communities. Ideally you will have an IAP2 certification or a willingness to work towards it.

You must have full Australian working rights.

So who is bd infrastructure?

We are a values-driven and B-Corp certified organisation (B-Corp certified organisations help solve environmental and social challenges by meeting high standards of business performance, accountability, and transparency). We also have a certified Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). Our work is always informed by our company values of relationships, excellence, challenge, trust and care (we walk that talk - ask anyone who knows us).

bd infrastructure is an innovative and sustainable privately owned small to medium enterprise that provides environment and sustainability; engagement and social impact; and project management and advisory services, predominantly in the social, health, energy and transport infrastructure sectors.

We are infrastructure experts who strive to make a difference. We believe that well-planned, carefully designed and sensitively delivered infrastructure supports communities to be healthier, happier and better-connected.

Our purpose is to shape sustainable infrastructure and services that enhance community wellbeing and to have a business that makes a positive impact. We do this through our unique combination of engagement and social impact, environment and project management and advisory services. We work with public and private sector clients predominantly in NSW and the ACT and have offices in Sydney and Canberra.

bd infrastructure is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes, values and encourages applications from diverse backgrounds and life experiences. Our culture encourages and rewards bright people who work effectively and deliver innovative solutions that create value for our clients and our business.

Look us up at: https://bdinfrastructure.com/.

What bd infrastructure offers

• A commitment to providing a safe, supportive and respectful working environment
• Equal opportunity employment conditions. In being an equal opportunity employer, bd infrastructure values people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences.

A competitive financial package will be negotiated with the successful candidate. Our employment package includes generous employment conditions and other employee benefits including:

• Excellent parental leave provisions
• Additional annual leave based on service duration
• Healthy living benefits
• Allowance for sustainable transport use
• Professional learning and development opportunities and memberships to appropriate bodies for the role
• Employee Assistance Program
• An opportunity to apply your passion to supporting our continued impact as a B-Corporation, including community, environmental and charitable initiatives
• A fun and diverse team culture.

We are based in Sydney and Canberra and we work flexibly from the bd infrastructure offices, client offices and our homes.

To submit your application please click 'Apply Now' by the closing date.

Timing

Applications close 5pm on the closing date. Successful applicants will be contacted for interviews shortly after this time with a view to commencing employment in mid-April 2025.