Social Impact Coordinator

**About the role**
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Regional Scotland team as a Social Impact Coordinator - Inverness on the A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy scheme, you will work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
**What you'll be doing**
- Supporting the A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project team to deliver social impact
outcomes by developing local networks of school groups, community groups, third sector organisations, employability partners and charities.
- Co-ordinating attendance at events with schools, colleges and universities in areas of STEM and construction careers including developing relationships with local schools and education organisations including Developing the Young Workforce and Skills Development Scotland.
- Promoting apprenticeship opportunities both with Balfour Beatty and through our supply chain.
- Providing detailed monthly reports for client reporting and monthly meetings and conducting trend analysis and look-ahead planning.
- Coordinating charitable donations and community-based volunteering opportunities.
- Support Considerate Constructor Scheme audits on site by attending training
provided by CCS and supporting with evidence gathering for monitor visits.
- Reporting and monitoring social impact outcomes which includes evidencing local labour, local spend, arranging work experience, recruitment from priority groups including participants from pre-employability support programmes, positive destination programmes and coordinating community-based activities.
- Upload of SI data to our internal reporting portal including monthly evidence.
- Handling sensitive data related to protected characteristics in line with GDPR
requirements.
- Supporting project teams to create and distribute project newsletters and updates to local community.
- Promoting the successes of our project teams’ social impact through creating case studies, good news articles and promoting successes internal and external.

**Who we're looking for**
- A genuine passion for making a difference and supporting the Transport
Scotland in their vision to create local sustainable job opportunities and
build community wealth through the major investment in Scotland’s
infrastructure.
- An awareness of the 'Social Impact' landscape in Scotland including
Community Benefits legislation, Community Wealth Building, the National
Performance Framework, and the ethos of socially sustainable
development.
- Excellent communication and planning skills and the ability to 'get things
done' on projects that often have multiple interested stakeholders
- Experience of working in a community facing role is desirable but not
essential.
- Strong IT skills across the Microsoft suite and comfortable learning about
and working with new and evolving digital tools for reporting of outcomes
- Full Driving License.

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

**Why join us?**

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

**About us**
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.

We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.

Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK11380