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South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
Contact: David Bamford
Region: England - Yorkshire and Humberside
Location: South Yorkshire
Category: Transport planning
Closes: 29 Jul 2026
Salary: £45-50K
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Stakeholder & Engagement Manager x2
Job Description
About the job
- Hours: 37 hours per week (full time)
- Contract: Permanent
- Salary: Grade 10 - £47,181 - £50,269
- Location: Sheffield (This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office)
Shape the future of public transport in South Yorkshire
Are you an experienced stakeholder engagement professional who thrives on building relationships, influencing outcomes and bringing people together to deliver meaningful change?
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) is seeking an outstanding Stakeholder and Engagement Manager to play a pivotal role in delivering one of the region's most significant transport transformation programmes – Bus Franchising.
Applications must be accompanied by a cover letter to detail how you meet the criteria as detailed within the role profile. (please see role profile attached). Please note, all applications should be made directly via our careers portal.
About The Role
As Stakeholder and Engagement Manager, you will lead relationships with key partners, communities and stakeholders across South Yorkshire, ensuring their voices help shape the future of bus services throughout the region. Working closely with local authorities, businesses, community groups and wider partners, you will help ensure the successful transition to a franchised bus network.
This Is a Highly Visible Role Where You Will
- Develop and deliver stakeholder engagement plans.
- Build and maintain influential relationships with partners and communities.
- Lead stakeholder mapping, engagement activities and consultation programmes.
- Prepare briefings, reports and presentations for a range of audiences.
- Organise and facilitate workshops, forums and stakeholder events.
- Provide insight and analysis that informs programme delivery and decision-making.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues, senior leaders and the Mayor's office.
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About You
We're looking for a confident communicator and relationship-builder with:
- Significant experience managing stakeholder engagement on major public or private sector programmes.
- A proven track record of developing and delivering successful engagement strategies.
- Experience presenting to diverse audiences and managing consultation activities.
- Strong project management and organisational skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, networking and influencing abilities.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex information into clear messages.
- Experience using CRM systems and Microsoft Office applications.
- The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- A background working within a political or public sector environment would be advantageous.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence a high-profile regional programme that will have a lasting impact on how people travel across South Yorkshire. You'll work alongside passionate colleagues, engage with senior stakeholders and play a key role in delivering better public transport for the region.
Benefits
All colleagues have access to a Local Government Pension Scheme and the chance to be part of an organisation where you can really make a difference. Located in Sheffield City Centre, we are well-placed for transport links and encourage employees to take advantage of the active travel facilities. Work/life balance is extremely important to us here at SYMCA with our recognised family/friendly policies, genuine work flexibility, recognition, and shared success.
In addition to the above, some of our benefits include:
- Holiday Entitlement – From 28 to 36 days annual leave entitlement (depending on length of service) plus bank holidays. Pro-rata for part time colleagues.
- Annual Leave Purchase Scheme – The ability to purchase up to a further 15 days per year in addition to your normal annual leave
- Hybrid working – Our offices are a space where we come together and collaborate. Most of our roles are offered on a hybrid basis with the exception of some support roles being onsite full time. Please note, unless specified within the job advert, we cannot accommodate remote working contracts.
- Flexible Hours Scheme – Most roles within SYMCA work under the Flexi-Scheme which allows office-based employees’ flexibility and discretion over their working hours. Under the scheme employees can accrue a defined amount of credit or debit of working hours, and to take time-off in the form of Flexi-Leave or banked Annual Leave.
- Rewarding You - Reducing everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more with Reward Gateway and Cycle-to-Work schemes.
- Training on the job - Support with upskilling skills through on-the-job training and qualifications
- Professional Membership Fees – Where membership to Professional bodies is applicable to your role, SYMCA will reimburse your membership fees where applicable and following approval by Line Management.


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Diversity at South Yorkshire Combined Mayoral Authority
Our workforce is made up of a diverse community, where we all belong and feel part of something bigger. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
All employees are eligible to request Flexible Working arrangements from day one of employment as such all requests will be considered subject to operation requirements.
Where candidates share disabilities within the application process, if they demonstrate that they meet all essential criteria from the Role Profile within their application, they will automatically be invited to interview.
If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the process, please contact recruitment@southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk or include within your application form detailing the adjustment and how it will assist in managing any barriers.
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