Description

Purpose of the Role The Community Engagement Specialist supports the Development and the Delivery of Projects, through a whole of life cycle approach, building and maintaining trusted relationships between GreenPoint Energy and the communities where it operates. The role leads engagement across GreenPoint’s renewable-energy portfolio — including battery storage, wind, and solar developments — ensuring that every stakeholder impacted by our projects feels informed, respected, and heard.

Requirements

About You

You are a relationship-builder who combines empathy with commercial awareness. You’re confident in the field, capable in sensitive conversations, and able to translate complex project information into approachable language.

Essential Skills and Experience

- Demonstrated experience in community engagement, stakeholder relations, or community development — ideally within renewable energy, utilities, or major infrastructure.
- Experience supporting or coordinating discussions related to commercial neighbour agreements, land access, or benefit arrangements.
- Solid interpersonal, conflict-resolution,



and communication skills.
- Proven ability to manage sensitive community issues with diplomacy and composure.
- Familiarity with planning, environmental, and local-government processes.
- Experience with stakeholder management systems or CRMs.
- Current Australian driver’s license and capacity for regional travel.

Desirable

- Exposure to large-scale renewable-energy or grid-infrastructure projects.
- Understanding of social license frameworks and benefit-sharing programs.
- Experience working with Traditional Owners or managing cultural-heritage requirements.
- Tertiary qualifications in communications, planning, social science, or environmental management.

Key Attributes

- Collaborative and grounded; enjoys teamwork across disciplines.
- Emotionally intelligent, with high cultural and situational awareness.
- Practical, organised, and able to balance fieldwork with reporting obligations.
- Values transparency, integrity, and inclusion.

📌 Community Engagement Specialist (Australia)
🏢 Equis
📍 Australia