Location: Oxford | Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Full-Time | Office Based | Regular Travel
Pay / Benefits: Remuneration for this role is benchmarked competitively within our sector.
The Opportunity
As the UK continues to invest in its energy infrastructure, effective stakeholder engagement has never been more important. As a Stakeholder Engagement Manager at OCU, you'll play a key role in building positive relationships with communities, local authorities, landowners, businesses, and other stakeholders across major infrastructure projects.
Working within a large-scale power framework, you'll help ensure projects are delivered with transparency, collaboration, and clear communication. This is an opportunity to influence projects from the earliest stages through to delivery, helping to create positive outcomes for both our clients and the communities we work within.
- Develop and deliver stakeholder engagement strategies aligned to DNO and project requirements
- Lead engagement with local authorities, communities, landowners, businesses, and affected stakeholders
- Coordinate the creation of public-facing communications including letters, factsheets, and information packs
- Organise and support consultation activity such as public exhibitions, letter drops, and engagement events
- Manage third-party stakeholder engagement consultants, ensuring quality and consistency of delivery
- Work closely with consents, pre-construction, and delivery teams to ensure aligned messaging and planning
- Collaborate with DNO stakeholder teams to support wider engagement strategies
- Track, manage, and resolve stakeholder queries, feedback, and concerns in a timely and professional manner
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Experience in stakeholder engagement, community relations, communications, public affairs, or a related discipline.
- Proven ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex or technical information clearly and effectively.
- Experience managing stakeholder concerns and delivering successful engagement outcomes.
- Excellent organisational and project management skills.
- Strong written communication and presentation skills.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Experience within utilities, infrastructure, energy, construction, or regulated environments.
- Bonus if you have experience working with local authorities, landowners, and community groups on infrastructure projects.
- It would be great if you've coordinated consultation events, public exhibitions, or community engagement programmes.
- It would be great if you have experience managing third-party consultants or external service providers.
- Knowledge of planning, consenting, or infrastructure development processes would be advantageous.
At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.
Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.
As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.
For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact
Jonathan Bryden at
[email protected].
Our vacancies are typically advertised for two weeks; however, we reserve the right to close applications early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.
At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life.
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.
Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.
We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.
At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.
Our Culture & Values
At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing
[email protected].
