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Social Value Manager

Wates are looking for a Social Value Manager to join our London Construction team focussing on high profile, technically complex projects across multiple sectors.If you are passionate about social value with proven technical skills looking for an opportunity to challenge the norm, bring fresh new ideas and elevate yourself within the industry then join us and help to create tomorrow together.This is a great opportunity to progress your career as part of a talented, diverse, and supportive team.ABOUT THE ROLEOur Social Value Managers are a valuable part of our business and have the responsibility to manage the delivery of Social Value activity for each allocated site/contract within the region. Ensuring project specific social value plans are in place for delivery on each site/contract and in line with the Wates Social Value Strategy & client requirements, enhancing the brand for our customers and leaving a lasting legacy.AS OUR SOCIAL VALUE MANAGER YOU WILL: Be responsible for the delivery of SV KPIs and section 106 requirements in line with the social value plan. Raise any concerns regarding failure to achieve targets within the allotted timescales to the RSVM. Day to day supervision of the regional Social Value Advisors (SVAs). Working closely with the SVAs to support KPI delivery. To motivate and support the development and progression of SVAs Work closely with bid and proposal managers to ensure that the submission has met the requirements, working within the required timescales Manage SV data and evidence for reporting and audit purposes Produce reports for clients (and frameworks where relevant) and ensuring that all data is recorded with any client, framework or partner portals as requested. Manage event and initiative budgets Work closely with Communications and Marketing Business Partner to help drive positive local media and trade news, helping demonstrate our approach to creating social value and legacy. Create comms plans for each site/contract and produce regular social media content.WHAT WE LOOKING FOR:You should have a strong understanding of Social Value within a complex corporate organization, along with a broader knowledge of Social Value drivers, relevant acts, policies, and delivery mechanisms. An awareness of safeguarding principles is essential, as well as familiarity with non-financial reporting frameworks and economic valuation models such as TOMS. A qualification in Social Value, Sustainability, or Community Development is desirable, with relevant experience in areas such as youth work, urban regeneration, or other Social Value initiatives.Additionally, you must demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver engaging presentations and produce high-quality bid writing, reports, and evaluations. Strong project management capabilities are essential, along with the ability to build and maintain long-term professional relationships.WHAT WE OFFER Competitive salary & profit share scheme Flexible working Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade) Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates) Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more… Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression. Industry leading family leave benefits to include 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/We are always looking for a variety of new talent to join our teams, to help us grow and innovate as a business. Although you may not have all of the skills listed, many of them may be transferable to other roles within the WATES Group.If you would like clarity on any of our vacancies or to discuss career opportunities in strict confidence, please contact our In-House Recruitment Team directly via recruitment@wates.co.uk and one of us will get in touch as soon as possible.As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to equality and are proud to have been recognised for this through a range of accolades including gold accreditation with Investors in People, we are also a Disability Confident employer. Being a family owned, business means we understand and value long term relationships.Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks. To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Standards Advisor

We currently have an opportunity for a Standards Advisor to join our Wates team within our Responsive Maintenance division. You will be working out of our Finsbury Park office on one of our social housing contracts. The primary focus of this role will be to provide professional SHEQ support. You will engage with various teams and supply chain peers to ensure that our SHE policy is promoted and effectively deployed, providing support to senior SHE advisors.Key Accountabilities will include: Support with the development of programmes for project visits that ensures the highest level of SHE standards as appropriate to project risks. Actively and effectively challenging noncompliance of SHE policies and standards. Support business leadership in the preparation of bids. Communicate learning and good practices from within and outside the business.We are looking for you to have experience of SHE policies in an industrial or construction environment and ideally have worked on a similar programme of works. To be successful in the role you will be an excellent communicator, with the ability to coach and influence individuals, along with being able to identify hazards.Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks. To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Sustainability Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual to join us and play a key role in driving Wates’ resource efficiency targets by engaging with individual business units, bid-, design-, and project teams, as well as procurement managers, supply chain partners and the wider SHEQ and sustainability team. Your experience may be from any discipline that has worked within or across the value chain to tackle resource efficiency and waste challenges in the built environment. This role will allow you to excel in liberating your technical expertise to realise efficiencies and deliver opportunities, that will eradicate waste from our projects, whilst sustaining our compliance with UK legislation and standards.Reporting to the Wates Property Services Head of SHEQ, this role will support the implementation of our new Environmental Sustainability Plan’s resource efficiency theme ambitions, by working with our project teams and procurement managers to drive resource hierarchy led outcomes across our business.You will have ownership for business processes relating to resource efficiency and for supporting strategic tenders and bids in these disciplines. This will involve providing technical support, as well as performance data analysis, where required. The role will work closely with our IT and Data Analytics team to automate performance reporting on our progress.The role will analyse, evaluate, identify, and deliver key areas for improvement, develop KPIs to track performance and drive material sustainable outcomes.Key Accountabilities for the role include: Lead on the engagement with business units on resource efficiency related projects, trials and programmes, with a particular focus on materials reuse, recycling, recovery, and avoidance of waste. Undertake site visits to provide advice and guidance to project teams. Drive the practical adoption of resource efficient solutions by working collaboratively with our design consultants and procurement teams, as well as our supply chain partners across the value chain. Develop a resource efficiency strategy to deliver the hierarchy ambitions, as well as sustain waste Duty of Care compliance, working with our waste and logistics partners Develop performance metrics for managing progress against our resource efficiency targets and automate reporting across the hierarchy interfaces. Develop processes and systems for projects to drive resource efficient outcomes to optimise reuse and meet 2045 zero waste ambitions. Represent the business on key industry forums and other relevant external platforms, ensuring Wates remains at the leading edge of resource efficiency and circular economy platform. Provide technical expertise on materials recovery, resource efficiency approaches and waste legislation to inform current and future strategic direction. Develop collateral for large tenders on resource efficiency and waste performance related topics. Update the business on key legal and policy changes on circular economy, resource efficiency and waste-related topics. Be a flexible and multi-disciplinary member of the Group Environment team, assisting colleagues with work relating to other key issues, such as carbon & energy, waste & resource efficiency, and water & nutrient neutrality, as well as compliance to protect the built and natural environment. We are looking for you to have a good knowledge of sustainability impacts on and from the environment, within the built environment, construction and property services (incl retrofit and refurb) sectors, and expert knowledge of waste legislation, resource efficiency, and modern methods of construction solutions. Good knowledge of international standards, such as ISO 14001:2015 and ISO2400 and circular economy, are desirable. Experience of procurement processes, familiarity of the supplier market and what solutions can be readily deployed would be ideal. We would want you to understand UK policy, environmental legislation, regulatory frameworks, technical standards, and experience in briefing senior managers on changes in legislation or policy and how these might affect their areas of work.To be successful in this role you will be post-graduate degree qualified in Environmental Science or Management (or equivalent) and a professional Member of a relevant Society for the Environment body (e.g. CIWM, IEMA etc) with preference given to Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) candidates. You will also have excellent presentation, facilitation and communication skills, and the ability to produce communication materials and campaigns that will drive sustainable outcomes. You will have excellent influencing skills and be able to explain complex information to enable key stakeholders to act. Strong analytical skills with good attention to detail are essential.This role can be based out of one of our offices Nationwide.