Researcher

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom Social Value Portal Full time

**About us**

We’re a company on a mission to deliver £100bn in Social Value to help people, places and the planet thrive. We launched in 2014 and within a short time have become the market leader in measurement and reporting of Social Value in the UK. The market is young and rapidly growing and we have recently received series B investment to further scale the business, both in the UK and internationally.

We’re a fast-growing SaaS scale-up, with over £16bn of Social Value being tracked through our digital platform to date. We have a suite of user-friendly, online collaboration tools that enable our clients in the public, private and voluntary sectors to work together to deliver Social Value. Our core offering is an evidence-led social value measurement framework, called the Social Value TOM System (Themes, Outcomes and Measures). We not only provide a platform, but our proposition also spans a consultancy division, as well as a new Social Value learning academy.

**About You**

**The Role**

We are looking for an enthusiastic Social Value Economist or Researcher with experience and/or a strong interest in social value, socioeconomics, or sustainable development.

You will be directly involved in the development of the TOMs from a methodological perspective, driving the expansion of the framework and the development new innovative and intelligent solutions and thought leadership within the sector thereby constantly pushing the boundaries on the measurement of social value and local economic value. Acting as a company ambassador and TOMs expert, you will be responsible to deliver training on social value and social impact measurement and valuation to internal and external stakeholders and support sales, consulting, and customer service team by providing expertise.

**What you will be doing**
- Supporting and producing evidence-based recommendations for the update and development of the TOMs framework
- Developing functionality within the TOMs framework to monetise and calculate the Social Value of specific interventions.
- Supporting other teams in the work to assess the social value committed or delivered using a range of methods including cost-benefit analysis, wellbeing concepts, and estimation Green Book Guidance on Wellbeing
- Working with colleagues in the research team and across other teams to develop new solutions and evolve the presentation
- Support the introduction of new TOMs related products making sure they are aligned with Social Value principles and evaluation methodologies
- Ensuring your research and work is practical and targeted, draws out your conclusions and follows best practice in quality assurance
- Select and analyse appropriate data and information to produce evidence-based advice

**Requirements**:

- Relevant graduate or post graduate qualifications, preferably in Economics or a related field
- A general interest in socio-economics issues and sustainable development
- Experience providing evidence-based recommendations, following best practice in quality assurance combined with good logical reasoning
- Enjoys exact and precise working as well as thinking outside the box to find innovative solutions to complex problems
- Ability to support the delivery of research and analytical projects through building of effective working relationships with colleagues across the organisation, and with relevant stakeholders both across SVP as well as externally
- Excellent communication, both orally and in writing, and an ability to write both technical and concise and accessible reports
- Data analytical skills (e.g. experience with STATA, R, advanced Excel)
- Ability to build strong client relationships, regardless of levels of seniority

**Desirable skills and experience**:

- Experience in one or more of the following fields
- Economic modelling
- Evaluation of socio-economic or environmental policies and impacts (such as cost-benefit analysis)
- Knowledge of valuation rules and guidelines (such as Green Book)
- Business acumen and the ability to identify new opportunities
- Working within cross-sectoral stakeholder groups (public, private, third sector)
- Experience facilitating stakeholder engagement workshops

**Benefits**

**What you'll receive from us**

Social value is at the heart of everything we do, which is reflected in how we reward our team. We provide opportunities to give something back through volunteer programmes, we offer flexible working to provide a healthy work/life balance, and we have a focus on health that helps you to feel your absolute best.
- **A competitive salary of £26,000 - £32,000**:

- Industry-leading initiatives in social value, including **6 paid volunteering days** per year
- Access to a 24/7 EAP (for **practical and emotional support** including face-to-face counselling)
- **34 days** of leave per year including UK bank holidays AND your birthday off work
- Company **shut-down over Christmas** to provide a long and well-deserved break
- Annual

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