Social Value Advisor

The Vacancy

Wates Group has an exciting opportunity for a Social Value Advisor to join our team in London.

As a Social Value Advisor, you will work closely with the Social Value Manager to deliver the Social Value KPI’s for each allocated site or contract within the London region, enhancing our brand for customers and leaving a lasting legacy in the communities we serve.

Key responsibilities include:

• Coordinating and delivering on all the Social Value KPI’s across community, social, economic, and environmental domains, ensuring alignment with project KPIs and managing discrete projects.
• Collecting evidence data at the start and end of Social Value activities and provide support for the site-based Social Value Champions in doing so too.
• Developing and collating content for social media and the website, creating case studies, Impact reports to support the regional communications plan. You will work with the Social Value Manager and collaborate with the Communications team to produce content for internal and external publications.
• Identifying and engaging with all stakeholders local to your projects, leading initiatives that empower these groups to co-design projects. You will ensure stakeholder opinions are considered to influence key decisions on community projects and may undertake research to support bids.
• Sourcing and training internal champions and supporting them to lead relevant initiatives at the site project level. Champion roles range from Social Value, Diversity and Inclusion, Social Enterprise, Safeguarding Environmental, Wellbeing and real Living wage. As Social Value Advisor you need to have knowledge in these areas to lead these champions.

From a delivery perspective, you will support each project’s employment and skills plans, involved from the bid stage through to delivery, to ensure commitments are met and communicated effectively. You will collaborate with the planning team to establish pre-programme PR opportunities/milestones in line with the relevant client’s External Social Value Communication Strategy and work with the Group team on delivering Wates corporate programmes around education, employability, and enterprise.

Ideally, you will have experience in a similar role on projects valued at £10 million or more and possess the passion and drive to deliver strategy and new initiatives successfully across the business. However, this is not essential. We are looking for someone with a positive demeanour who has strong interpersonal and communication skills, whilst also having experience with research task, multitasking abilities and the capability to work effectively with all internal and external contacts at all levels. Excellent administrative skills, including data collection and entry, are essential in this role.

Experience within the residential or public sector is advantageous.

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Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.