Strategic Consent Lead

Strategic Consent Lead required for a major Offshore Wind Developer based in the United Kingdom.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for cohesion of Consent Strategy across Generation and Transmission DCOs and ensuring alignment of community stakeholder engagement strategy with Consent Strategy,.
• Responsible for identification of project consent risk including cross functional risk between commercial development, consenting and stakeholder functions
• Responsible for ensuring close cooperation between Consenting and Engineering team as required to maintain Project Design Envelope flexibility and manage consent risk
• Responsible for driving cohesion between consent, commercial development and stakeholder teams including scheduling of pre-construction activities
• Responsible for ensuring cohesion between the Examination and Pre Construction Discharge teams including consistency of approach to scheduling and budgets
• Responsible for ensuring progress of pre-commencement activites to facilitate project programme
• Support decision making during to develop recommendations for Project/Programme Directors
• Support upcoming Ground Investigation Survey works from a Consenting point of view, incl. risk management and advice to the Engineering workstream

Key tasks

• Define and manage risk across the respective project. Clear and proactive communication of portfolio risk to the project directors and Consenting workstream to manage issues across projects.
• Prioritise risks for escalation to Project and Programme Directors in conjunction with Consenting Workstream
• Internal Reporting /Examination and milestones and inputs to Board and Shareholder updates as required.
• Oversee the development of positions on key consenting topics and proactively ensure alignment of key messages.
• Define the direction of the pre construction discharge team and delivery required in parallel with pre-consent work.
• Drive joined up approach to external stakeholder and community engagement.
• Provide expert advice on advocacy requirements in respect of key project risks.
• Drive delivery of key project documents, decision papers, gate.