KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Working as client representative supporting the delivery of the TPA programme and undertakings, commitments and assurances.
• Ensuring adherence to the TPA Management Plan (across all stages) and associated requirements and provide weekly updates to the DCO Legal Lead.
• Be the clients control point for TPA’s ensuring the client requirements and standards are met.
• Support the production of the TPA Management plan and its implementation, organising and attending stakeholder meetings as required. Ensure the TPA Management Plan and its outputs is the key interface between the EIA, Design and engineering, and Consenting teams and statutory undertakers.
• Manage and support the actions arising from the TPA Management Plan, Technical Working Groups and bilateral Stakeholder meetings and the implement into Issues Tracker, Mitigation Tracker, Commitments Register as appropriate
• Develop specialist client TPA facing engagement with external third partners and stakeholders to identify requirements.

The role is client-side and involves identifying and managing, across all DCO workstreams, the technical and commercial matters arising from Statutory Undertakers requiring translation and securing into provisions of the draft DCO application and Third-Party Agreements (TPA’s), ensuring their consistent implementation in accordance with the delivery programme.
You will be working as client representative supporting the delivery of the TPA programme and undertakings, commitments and assurances.
Developing and maintaining links and interfaces with Statutory Undertakers to ensure TPA’s and requirements for the DCO Application and Examination are delivered in a collaborative and transparent manner.
Overseeing and co-ordinating the progressive completion of the necessary legal agreements, side agreements, framework agreements and protective provisions for third parties and statutory undertakers required for the delivery of a successful DCO Application.
Taking a leading role in relationships with Statutory Undertakers, supporting the DCO Legal Lead and Stakeholder Team to identify technical and commercial requirements and incorporate into side agreements, protective provisions and the DCO.
Ensuring proper document control across the client and consultant team, and the tracking and monitoring of TPA agreements, undertakings and commitments against programme and budgets.