Principal Consultant - Birmingham, United Kingdom - AECOM

AECOM
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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone.

Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.


Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy.

We're one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options.

Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.


You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.


We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities.

We believe in leadership at all levels.

No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.


We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.


When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

Join us and let's get started.


Job Description:

As a developing technical leader in the field of evaluation, you will work within a large and collaborative national team to support the delivery of a diverse range of evaluation work within our broad regional and national portfolio, including:

National Highways Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (National Highways);Future Transport Zone Programme Evaluation (TfWM and WECA);Midland Metro Programme Evaluation (TfWM)Coventry Electric Buses Network Programme Evaluation (TfWM); and Dudley Interchange Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (TfWM).


Responsibilities:


Working with our National Evaluation Leads, you will pro-actively manage a range of small, medium and large-scale evaluation projects (Deputy Project Manager or Project Manager).You will make an active contribution to the development of new and innovative evaluation approaches to support our client project needs.

Acting as the face of AECOM, you will assist internal and external facing clients in specifying and managing the delivery of evaluation projects and programmes.

You will lead evaluation workstreams with limited supervision, taking responsibility for the technical direction and quality of the work to ensure that best practice techniques are applied consistently.

You will take responsibility for the technical development of junior staff, providing on-the-job coaching and mentoring.
You will provide technical and professional mentoring and supervisory support to the team.

You will be expected to effectively communicate project and operationally critical issues in a timely manner to Directors and Clients to deliver projects within timescale, budget constraints and quality expectations.

Moreover, you will support directors in business development and bidding activity - leading the writing and submission of project proposals, including the preparation of fee proposals including consideration of resources and programmes.

As a Principal Evaluator/Transport Planner, you will be an important senior member of our Planning Team in the Midlands.

You will have the opportunity to support a range of other wider transport planning projects as determined by the ongoing project pipeline.


Finally, you will assist AECOM to raise visibility of its evaluation and wider transport planning capabilities and support strategic recruitment activities to enable team growth.


Qualifications:

Technical


  • You will have in-depth technical knowledge and experience of a range of evaluation approaches, ideally in relation to impact evaluation design and delivery, evidence synthesis, meta-analysis, process evaluation, social and economic research and logic mapping.
  • Strong track record or designing and delivering monitoring and evaluation studies in accordance with industry best standards.
  • An analytical mind and background and a broad understanding of key evaluation methods and best practice techniques.
  • Wider experience in areas such as transport strategy, modelling, planning and business
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