Senior Stakeholder Engagement Associate

**Your Impact**:
Jacobs is a global leader in providing world-class, life enhancing engineering solutions for people and communities across the globe. We don’t believe in just doing, we believe in delivering the best communication and engagement solutions based on set objectives and shared goals.

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. With $13 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.

At the heart of our business are our people and following a sustained period of growth in UK and Ireland, we are looking for passionate mid-level professionals to join our **Stakeholder Engagement Communications Team** **(Manchester).** This team is responsible for every aspect of the project journey including brand management, event management, client relationship, stakeholder and public affairs management and developing cohesive communication plans that are on message, are measurable, fair and provide cut through.

We want to hear from people who have an interest in and deep understanding of stakeholder relations, who are strategic in their thinking, creative in their approach and have a keen eye for detail. People who love communications and engaging with people and who understand its importance. Can you listen to varying opinions respectively while possessing the confidence to work towards a common set of goals.

The main purpose of the roles is to support the delivery of comprehensive and innovative communications, public consultation and stakeholder engagement across a range of national infrastructure projects. There will be opportunities to experience different roles aimed at developing your career.

We are advertising for Senior Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Professional (around 2-6 years’ experience) grades with salaries being commensurate with the level of experience. Jacobs offers an excellent range of benefits including but not limited to a pension, training, and flexible working.

The roles will include the following.
- Supporting the Stakeholder Engagement & Communications team by proactively engaging with community groups, businesses, and other stakeholders
- Stakeholder identification and management - development of stakeholder profiles and the need for analysis, ownership of stakeholder relationships, identification of reputational risk, and creation of mitigation strategies
- Engagement and consultation including PR and media and social media
- Supporting the development of high-quality editorial copy, press releases, reports, and publications
- Stakeholder strategy - development, management, and evaluation of strategies to embed stakeholder relationships across teams
- Helping to deliver the public consultation process, representing projects at information days, and assisting with submissions analysis and report writing

Planning and delivery of events - safety and wellbeing planning, logistics and development of materials

Why Jacobs?

We clear the way for inventive thinking, so you have the support, means and space to deliver the boldest solutions for the extraordinary and every day. Jacobs. A world where you can.

Our culture:
We’re invested in you and your success. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion, and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to make inclusion and diversity core attributes of our identity, embedded in all our employment and business practices in all locations. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:
Here’s what you’ll need:

- Proven communication skills; both verbal and written
- Experience of delivering stakeholder and public consultations
- Ability to analysis data and information
- Some Experience of infrastructure projects
- Flexibility to travel to meet project demands
- A degree or equivalent qualification or experience in communications, journalism, public relations, or similar discipline. A degree in technical disciplines that align with the business such as Engineering, Planning, Environmental Science or similar, will also be considered
- Outstanding written and verbal skills with good attention to detail
- An understanding of UK politics
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- The ability to work well as part of a team
- Fully comfortable dealing with people, enjoy pub