Graduate Stakeholder Engagement Specialist

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Are you ready to start your career in an inclusive, flexible, and dynamic work environment?

What are you waiting for? Apply today! 

Join the Jacobs Graduate Development Programme (GDP) and have a meaningful, positive impact on our environments, communities, and societies worldwide. As a Jacobs Graduate you will be part of a larger network of talent who are Challenging Today and Reinventing Tomorrow.

What we do at Jacobs 

Our business focuses on providing solutions to future challenges such as climate change, the need for renewable energy, low carbon economies, transportation, and material resource and waste management. While we shape some of the very largest and most challenging landmark projects in the UK, we also deliver local projects that protect communities.

What will you get? 

Our Graduate Development Programme is a structured two-year scheme where we provide the framework, mentoring and experiences to help you maximise your skills and ambitions. On joining our scheme in September 2025, you’ll rapidly gain knowledge of how our company works and the impact that you can have to help us move towards a more connected and sustainable world.

About the opportunity

Jacobs has a large portfolio of long-term contracts working on some of the UK and Ireland’s most high-profile infrastructure projects and we want to grow our Stakeholder Engagement & Communications team to meet this ever-increasing portfolio of projects. Our team is delivering projects from concept stage through to construction and we are looking for enthusiastic, adaptable staff to join this highly successfully team.

The Stakeholder Engagement & Communications team sits within our Water and Environment business and you will work as part of a diverse and highly skilled team of specialists and engineers, providing support and advice to a wide range of clients. The main purpose of the role is to support the delivery of comprehensive and innovative communications, public consultation sand stakeholder engagement activities across a range of national infrastructure projects. There will be opportunities to experience different roles within the business aimed at developing your career.

The role will include:

• Supporting the Stakeholder Engagement & Communications team by proactively engaging with community groups, businesses and other stakeholders, face-to-face and on the phone, on a day to day basis;
• Assisting in producing high quality editorial copy, press releases, reports, publications and engagement supporting materials;
• Supporting the public consultation process, representing projects at information days and assisting with submissions analysis and report writing;
• Supporting event management (some evening/weekend working may be required);
• Liaison across various organisations/functions;
• Organising, attending and recording meetings with a range of stakeholders; 
• Monitoring and responding to stakeholder queries through various channels;
• Media monitoring; and
• Populating Stakeholder Engagement Management (SEM) Systems.

Here's what you'll need

• Be working towards a Degree or Masters qualification in Communications, Public Relations, International Relations, Political Science, Sociology or Psychology
• Outstanding written and verbal skills with good attention to detail;
• Excellent organisational and time management skills;
• Fully comfortable dealing with people, enjoy public interaction and be a good listener; 
• The ability to travel for associated work
• A flexible self-starter who is keen to drive your career forward
• Adaptable to change, with a thirst for learning new things
• You must have the permanent right to work in the UK