Social Value Co-ordinator

**About the role**:
Here at Balfour Beatty, our work inspires communities and advances society. Our commitment to sustainability looks even further, generations further. As part of our Building New Futures sustainability strategy, we have committed to positively impacting over1 million people by 2040. Working in our Customer and Social Value Team in Highways, you will be responsible for supporting project teams with co-ordination of the planning, delivery and reporting of social value activity across our Highways business in theSouth East as well as supporting cross-business initiatives.

**What you'll be doing**

Key Responsibilities:

- The Social Value Coordinator will support projects in the South East to achieve their social value commitments.
- Work with external community-based organisations to build partnerships to help deliver our commitments at a project and regional level.
- Assist in the delivery of the Equality Diversity & Inclusion strategy and inclusion action plan.
- Design and co-ordinate cross highways social value initiatives aligned to our Building New Futures Sustainability strategy
- Collect projects social value outcomes including evidencing local labour, local spend, employment and skills data collection, environment data collection; to help deliver project outcomes.
- Work with supply chain on projects to collect social value data and monitor performance and ensure supply chain data and evidence collected is compliant and auditable.
- Co-ordinate donations and volunteering with community-based groups
- Provide support to assist with the relevant sections of the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS).
- Work with Social Value Manager to provide support to the projects within Highways to demonstrate the positive impact of our projects during construction works.
- Work with our Customer and Communications teams to ensure social value activity is communicated
- Engage with all relevant stakeholders including supply chain and wider project teams

**Who we're looking for**:

- Previous experience of delivering social value projects and community engagement activity
- Be able to demonstrate a passion for delivering social value in the areas within which we work and motivate others to do the same
- Able to collaborate with and build relationships with a range of stakeholders both internal and externally
- Be able to proactively communicate social value activity via social media and other internal and external communications channels
- Experience of project management, data collection and management
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and SharePoint
- Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure whilst remaining calm and focused
- Willingness to travel regionally and nationally as required (driving license preferable but not essential)

**Why work for us**:
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

**About us**:
Balfour Beatty Highways delivers major schemes including smart motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities,we put our customer, the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, delivering net carbon reductions and social value to the communities within which we work. At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusiveculture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan whichsets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full on our website.