Social Values Consultant

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business

**About the Opportunity**

With recent changes in UK procurement law, and a focus on Covid-19 recovery, our clients have increased their focus on social value, expecting us to clearly define how our projects and organisation contributes to society. In January 2021, the Government will be mandating a minimum of 10% weighting for social value questions across all public sector procurement.

This role, as Social Value Manager, will report into the Head of Social Value in our Decommissioning business, to enhance and promote our social value advisory, consulting and delivery proposition, with a focus of supporting social value delivery at contract level.

This is an exciting time to be part of a growing agenda across Jacobs and help create a business of the future.

**Primary Role and Responsibilities**

To support the development and implementation of social impact activities in response to the identified social impact needs, in alignment with business strategy
- Support the integration of UK Government requirements and guidance on creation of Social Value.
- Support reporting of social impact plans within contracts
- Support business reporting in Social Value e.g. provision of monthly progress reports and dashboards
- Arrange and attend team meetings/conferences, supply chain meetings, engagement events as required, to take minutes, and ensure appropriate facilities are organised.
- Support development of social value initiatives at the contract tendering stage.

**Day to Day Responsibilities Include**
- Understand clients and operational key aims and objectives and action and deliver on these in the timescales required
- Where required, represent the company on local focus groups in association to education, employment and skills developments and opportunities.
- Attend external events to obtain details of best practice and assist with the implementation of new initiatives to improve business performance.
- Develop and maintain effective networks with all relevant contacts to ensure the Social Value and KPI’s are delivered in the most effective way.
- Monitor contract commitments to ensure these are completed.
- Support the completion of social value case studies, including appropriate metrics.
- Coordinate and author social value questions for multiple opportunities and clients, including articulating our capabilities, but also defining our contribution and setting achievable targets.
- Supervising the co-ordination and management of current evidence gathering processes

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:

- Experience of working in a collaborative environment.
- Able to work with data (analysis and interpretations)
- Confidence in analysing and interpreting numerical data.
- Strong communication & influencing skills.
- Strong IT skills (Microsoft Office Suite)
- Experience of Social Impact/Social Value activities
- Understanding of the Social Value Act
- Knowledge current Government policy in this area
- Knowledge of social value principles

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee