Social Value Officer

6 months ago

Maple Cross, United Kingdom Align JV Full time

Align is the main works civils contractor for the C1 section of Phase 1 of High Speed 2 and is responsible for delivering the Colne Valley Viaduct and Chiltern Tunnel. With engagement and involvement at the heart of delivery, Align is looking for a Social Value Officer to support the Social Value & Legacy Manager and the current engagement team to help deliver
**outcomes that benefit society - whether that be social, economic, or environmental.**

The role will be multi-faceted. The primary objective will be to assist with the design, drive and delivery of a programme of positive outcomes and community investment for Align, looking at how we can support communities through donations of funds, time and resource in activities and projects that enhance the lives of local people.

Being part of the largest infrastructure project in Europe, the impacts of our construction remain under the spotlight, but we are uniquely positioned to be able to generate
**long-term public benefit and improve wellbeing through the resources we already have. This means we can not only mitigate and offset any impact, but that we can invest time, money and effort into leaving a positive legacy and delivering benefits to those communities who live closest to our sites.**
Our projects will be focussed on the following key themes to benefit residents in the areas that Align works:

- Community safety
- Skills, education and employment
- Health and wellbeing
- Environment
- Financial inclusion

The role will include:

- Working closely with the Social Value & Legacy Manager to ensure a balance of cost effective, high quality, proactive locality-based community investment activities are delivered
- Working collaboratively with the existing engagement team to understand community demographics and needs
- Proactively identifying opportunities within schools and education providers to create projects that will enhance learning and skills
- Project managing and planning initiatives using local intelligence and the needs of the community to provide direction
- Creative thinking and a can-do attitude to manage and deliver a busy programme of investment activity across different communities
- Collaborating with stakeholders to manage and deliver projects and schemes that improve wellbeing and help build communities
- Working with suppliers and partners to deliver innovative and creative schemes that enhance safety in the community
- Assisting with developing opportunities for mentoring, volunteering, and fundraising
- Building effective and productive community relationships and working with diverse stakeholders
- Continuing to improve outcomes for residents and the wider communities. Communicating these outcomes to colleagues so that a social value calculation can be routinely calculated
- Building a network of internal collaborators to maximise the impact of investment
- Understanding the metrics on the total value of investment delivered and assist with reporting on the social value
- Producing materials for presentations both internally and externally
- Creating a narrative and telling a story that can be shared with stakeholders about how Align is helping to build a better future through community-focussed initiatives and will leave a legacy for the next generation
- Producing relevant project reporting and monitoring of agreed outcomes by providing accurate records of community investment activities
- Supporting the public events arranged by the community engagement team
- Utilising community investment opportunities efficiently showing good value for money
- Understanding and working in accordance with HS2’s values

**Job Qualifications**

**Essential Criteria**
- Experience of building relationships in difficult circumstances
- Ability to be proactive in identifying opportunities and taking action to ensure delivery
- Convincing and persuasive to create buy-in and support at all levels
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Ability to simplify complex technical construction issues
- The tenacity to see work through to completion whilst adhering to high standards
- Fully comfortable discussing complex topics with external stakeholders and working in pressurised environments where a cool head is required
- An outgoing and proactive personality, who shows enthusiasm, passion, and a sense of fun.

**Desirable Skills**
- Project management
- Experience of construction/ major projects or infrastructure
- Experience of driving and delivering community investment and legacy projects
- Knowledge of working with diverse stakeholders.

**Please note**

This role will require a DBS check.

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