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Senior Social Value Advisor – Infrastructure
August 10, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Social Value Advisor – Infrastructure
Senior Social Value Advisor (Infrastructure)
Location: Dartford / Manchester or Worksop - hybrid working offered
Talk to us about flexible, dynamic, job share and part time working options.
Permanent
Are you currently working in Social Value, and looking to take the next step into a senior role where you can use your experience to develop social value strategies?
Laing O'Rourke's ambition is to be the recognised leader for innovation and excellence in the construction industry, driven by technical excellence in design, manufacturing and construction. Our business strategy is focused on making an even bigger contribution to society by delivering buildings and infrastructure that excite, enable and support people and communities, leaving an amazing legacy from our work.
Using the power of experience, we have developed a new approach to social value, placing people and communities at the heart of what we do. Our goal is to maximise the socio-economic benefits delivered through operations and give our people and communities the support they need to thrive.
To ensure we meet our ambitions we are recruiting a Senior Social Value Advisor (Infrastructure). This role will be aligned to our Building Business Unit and will be responsible for developing and embedding our new 2030 Social Value Ambition.
The Senior Social Sustainability Advisor (Infrastructure) is expected to assume the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:
- To support the Social Value Leader, in the on-going development of the LOR Sustainability Strategy and Social Value Ambition
- Managing internal and external stakeholders, using effective communications and build relationships with delivery partners, project teams and other functions
- Responsible for work winning evidence across the Infrastructure Unit portfolio of projects including quotes, case studies and quantifiable data
- Monitoring and evaluating all social value delivery across the Building Unit portfolio of projects ensuring we are meeting all our social value commitment both internal and external
The candidate will have:
- Experience in developing and implementing social value strategies and initiatives in a construction setting
- Understanding of local and national legislation relating to Social Value, such as Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, PPNs, city and regional plans
- Good understanding of work winning procedures and how to develop a high-quality bid submission
- Understanding of Social Value impact measurement tools in the UK and how they are aligned to Laing O'Rourke Social Value Ambition
- Ability to lead a team of Social Value Advisor giving them the advice, guidance and support
Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it.
Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
Diversity & Sustainability:
We value and care about difference at Laing O'Rourke and believe a diverse team drives innovation.
We are a global multicultural business committed to the inclusion of all employees, enabling everyone to feel accepted, respected & valued for being themselves.
We have set out far-reaching global sustainability targets including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women amongst our global staff by 2033.
Additional:
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, then please get in touch.