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Why Arup?

Are you passionate about building a more sustainable future? At Arup we work to find solutions for some of the world’s most complex problems – providing expertise across all areas of the built environment from strategic approach and planning to design and engineering.

Join us and you will have the freedom to push boundaries, develop new skills and work on some of the world’s most inspiring projects. We believe that by giving our people the freedom to be creative, we will produce work that continuously redefines quality across our firm. Whatever the role or specialism, our people are passionate about what they do, they believe in our values and are happy to come to work every day. And this is why people choose to work here and stay.

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The Opportunity

We are currently recruiting a multi-disciplinary team to drive the growth of our sustainable development services in the global south with a particular focus on climate and sustainability, cities planning and design and economic advisory services. This role will form part of a network charged with building strong relations with key clients – to work with them and the wider Arup business to tackle complex challenges and improve project and programme level outcomes.

Within this role you will be supporting a small number of international development and public sector client relationships that have been prioritised by the Global South Director and country offices in Africa for the impact they can have on the UN Sustainable Development goals with focus varying from insight gathering and research supporting the development of the engagement plan, stakeholder and perception mapping through to executing highly targeted campaigns and direct engagement with the client to improve positioning and influence. These include multilateral, national, sub-national, private and NGO / academic actors. The objective is to further Arup’s profile and work winning success as the sustainable development consultancy of choice in emerging markets with a particular focus on climate and sustainability, urbanisation ad economic advisory services. This is an exciting opportunity in the early stages of developing our client programme and expanding our client marketing expertise.

This position is based in the South African, Johannesburg office and responsible for driving Arup’s business in the space.

Is this role right for you?

We are looking for individuals with the following experience –

• Developing and implementing strategic engagement plans that deliver a deep understanding of target client programs and priorities to extend business and partnership opportunities with these clients creating measurable influence and impact through growth in revenue, relationship and reputation
• Knowledge and experience of International development clients and the public sector along with strong sustainable development related experience
• Confident abilities in designing and delivering strategic engagement plans
• Excellent grasp of the Sustainable Development goals and the potential that infrastructure and the built environment might play in contributing to these
• Working closely and collaborating with Sustainable Development and country office leads as well as client relationship teams, other client marketers, client coordinators and other business development professionals for insight gathering and research supporting the development of the client engagement plan

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What we offer you:

An environment that will give you freedom to design with a purpose, focus on your skills to deliver quality work to our clients, opportunity to learn and share knowledge openly. You will have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup’s community engagement programme.

You’ll have access to lots of learning opportunities and ongoing training through Arup university and other learning programmes

Beyond a competitive guaranteed annual salary, core benefits include medical aid and hospital gap cover; as well as provident fund covering retirement savings, death and disability. Core benefits form part of your guaranteed annual package

As a membership organisation, permanent members share in our success through a global profit share. Our people also have access to a range of broader wellbeing benefits.

Different people, shared values:

At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.

At Arup, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic. Our internal employee networks – BAME, Employment Equity Committee, Region Engagement Group, Culture, Disability, LGBTQ+ and Women – provide a space for you to express your views and to make a positive difference – discover more about life at Arup here.

At Arup, we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please speak to our recruitment team and we will work with you to make reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout your application.

At Arup, we appreciate that everyone’s circumstances are different and having the freedom to flex the way we work is essential to our wellbeing. If flexibility matters to you let us know when you apply, and we will discuss how this could work in your role.