Social Value Lead

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

1/13/2025

About Royal HaskoningDHV:

Royal HaskoningDHV has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have helped contribute to a better society and improved people’s lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals. We are an independent international engineering and project management consultancy leading the way in sustainable development and innovation, demonstrated by our commitment to achieving net zero.

Royal HaskoningDHV is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve.

Job Role:

As Royal HaskoningDHV continues to grow, we are looking to appoint a Social Value Lead/Manager to join us in the UK. This is a new position within the company and created due to Social Value growing as a priority with the work we do. This role will involve working with all our business lines and providing them with a visible and credible approach to Social Value across the projects that we work on. With this being a new position within our company, there is an opportunity to make the role your own and build on our current Social Value strategy.

The role will include:

• Working closely with internal and external stakeholders regarding social value.
• Providing advice and support to our project teams, to ensure they are delivering on social value obligations related to existing projects and commissions.
• Assisting with the coordination of social value activities across UK Business Lines.
• Identifying and liaising with relevant organisations such as community groups, local schools and charities to identify relevant opportunities to deliver meaningful social value outcomes.
• Capturing, monitoring and reviewing social value data relative to our client’s adopted social value frameworks in order to ensure performance and accuracy.
• Supporting the HRM function with the social value aspects of our graduate apprenticeship scheme and internship programme recruitment.
• Assisting with the provision of social value responses to tender questions, and negotiating with our client’s social value coordinators at project inception.
• Creating social value case studies for internal/external communication.
• Championing diversity, inclusion, and ethical practices across projects.
  
  

This role might be right for you if you have:

• A minimum of 8 years’ experience of which at least 4 years are in the area of Social Value
• A passion for the outcomes social value activities can deliver.
• Proven experience in social value reporting, monitoring, and delivery management.
• Working knowledge of the National Social Value Themes Outcomes and Measures (TOMs) Framework..
• Appreciation of how engineering / construction / consultancy businesses are required to fulfil Social Value obligations in relation to projects they bid for/deliver.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of community engagement, social impact, and sustainability.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills, with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• A proactive attitude to lead initiatives and drive change.
• Ability to work independently.
• Experience of reporting social value using databases, including the Social Value Portal.
• What we can offer: (Preferable) Experience delivering social value within similar organisations and sectors.
  
  

What we can offer:

Exciting. Lively. Collaborative. Dynamic. Supportive. Friendly. That’s how our colleagues describe our company. The supportive and collaborative environment that Royal HaskoningDHV promote, alongside us being an independent company this sets us apart from the crowd.

For details about our UK reward offering visit this web-page: Employee Benefits in the UK | Royal HaskoningDHV