Hybrid Stakeholder & Consultation Manager – DCO, EIA, Planning

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About the role

  • Stakeholder Manager within ERM's Capital Project Delivery team, leading engagement and consultation for major infrastructure projects. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to navigate stakeholder mapping and public consultations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end programmes of stakeholder engagement and public consultation for major infrastructure projects—setting clear scope, managing budgets, and ensuring high-quality delivery throughout.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to clients, providing strategic guidance on stakeholder mapping, insight-driven engagement strategy and approaches, project messaging, and best-practice implementation.
  • Create compelling, accessible and visually engaging consultation materials, including public-facing communications, exhibition boards, summaries, and digital content that clearly articulate complex information.
  • Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary project teams, coordinating input from project managers, EIA specialists, engineers, legal advisors, and planners to ensure alignment with consenting requirements, programme milestones, and wider project objectives.
  • Build strong, constructive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including local authorities, government bodies, statutory and non-statutory consultees, community groups, and the general public—helping to build trust and demonstrate transparency.
  • Lead business development efforts, including shaping persuasive proposals, delivering high-impact client presentations, and contributing to targeted marketing campaigns in collaboration with social sustainability colleagues.

Requirements

  • Knowledge and experience of UK planning regimes e.g. DCO, TCPA, Section 36
  • Experience of UK infrastructure projects
  • Solid stakeholder experience.
  • Experience on DCO project applications (desirable)
  • Strong consultancy experience
  • Research, analytical and inter-personal skills with diligent attention to detail
  • Strong project management skills including scopes of work and budgets
  • Experience planning and delivering engagement activities (e.g. public consultations, exhibitions, workshops, meetings)
  • Comfortable and confident engaging with all types of stakeholders, including clients and communities
  • Excellent writing and presentation skills.

Benefits

  • Flexible working to suit your life – need to do the school run? Not a problem!
  • More productive and happy if you work from home a few days per week? Go ahead!
  • Love to travel? Ask about our Cross Border Remote Working!
  • 25 days annual leave + public holidays
  • 6% employer pension contribution
  • Twice annual promotion opportunities
  • Annual salary review and performance related bonus
  • Private medical insurance
  • Life assurance
  • Income protection
  • EV car salary sacrifice scheme
  • Cycle2Work scheme
  • Travel season ticket loan
  • Volunteering and Give As You Earn opportunities
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Premium account for Calm (the #1 app for sleep and meditation) in order to look after your wellbeing
  • Discounts on gym membership and gift cards for a wide variety of retailers and restaurants.

Job title

Stakeholder & Consultation Manager – DCO, EIA, Planning

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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