Graduate Stakeholder Engagement Specialist

Two-year Graduate Development Program supporting stakeholder engagement, public consultation, communications, media monitoring, and community engagement for major infrastructure projects.

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

Join the Jacobs Graduate Development Program (GDP) and help shape better environments, communities and societies. Bring your passion, creativity and ambition — and together, we’ll create lasting change.

What You’ll Get

Our two‑year Graduate Development Program is designed to accelerate your growth as you begin your Jacobs career. Through blended learning, mentoring, progress reviews and networking, you’ll build capability across four key areas: human skills, consulting skills, championing our strategy, and developing your personal passions.

You’ll tailor your learning journey to your interests, career goals and technical strengths — creating a graduate experience that’s uniquely yours. Much of your development will come through real project work, supported by your manager and mentor to ensure you gain the experiences that matter most.

The Graduate Development Program isn’t just a steppingstone — it’s a launchpad. You’ll gain the tools, exposure and support to unlock your potential, working on meaningful projects and collaborating with industry leaders to deliver solutions to complex challenges.

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. 

The start date for this position is September 2027.

Here's what you'll need

What you’ll need

• Be working towards a relevant Degree or Master’s level qualification in Comms/Public Relations

• A flexible, proactive mindset and motivation to drive your career forward

• Adaptability and enthusiasm for learning

• Permanent right to work in the UK

Apply before 12 October 2026 to be considered in the first assessment window. Applications may still be accepted afterwards, but roles may be filled during the initial window.