Principal Social Value Consultant

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

Position location: London, UK / Cambridge, UK / Brighton, UK
Recruiter contact: Martin Keown

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the division
Environmental and social considerations are central to Mott MacDonald’s Purpose and its offerings across all sectors and territories. Our environment and social business provides essential services and innovative solutions which anticipate our clients' needs across all sectors.

About the role

You will work as part of Mott MacDonald’s dedicated Social and Stakeholder team, leading on social value delivery across various infrastructure sectors within several of our core business units. You will work within our social value team, with a specific focus on delivering Mott MacDonald’s social value commitments on projects for leading water sector clients in the first instance. Opportunities in the built environment, energy, health and transportation sectors. This role will also support working winning and service growth, capturing, monitoring, and reporting on social value progress and performance.

This role will lead on the following activities (this is not an exhaustive list):

Business development

• Work closely with bid teams across our business units and sectors to respond to tendering requirements.
• Where applicable, provide a technical reviewer role on social value bids in support of junior social value consultants who will draft content.

Project delivery

• Work with colleagues to embed social value delivery into water sector contracts and project delivery – this includes developing unit, sector, and project specific social value strategies and action plans.
• Manage and deliver a range of social value projects across Mott MacDonald’s portfolio of water sector clients in the first instance, to include stakeholder relationship management with clients and project teams.
• Manage delivery of agreed action plans, monitor, measure, and report on performance (produce reports, action plans and presentations where needed).

Strategic planning

• Support the development of a social value consultancy offer for the Environment and Social business.
• Drive and feed into the continuous improvement around Mott MacDonald’s social value approach.

Technical excellence

• Design and deliver upskilling and capacity building workshops for UK colleagues, including developing domain knowledge of early career professionals.
• Attend and speak at external events and undertake external business development (opportunity identification for collaboration with external organisations, clients, and professional membership organisations).
• Create good news stories, case studies, and communicate social value stories via Mott MacDonald’s social media channels.

Additional responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop junior members of staff in project teams around social value.

It is expected that most of the role will be delivered from one of three of our UK offices: Cambridge, Brighton, or London.

We are looking for an individual with a passion for this subject area with the following attributes:

Essential

• Experience in construction, infrastructure and consultancy for UK water sector clients considered an asset.
• An excellent knowledge of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, PPN 06/20, and best practice social value delivery.
• Proven experience of developing social value plans and strategies including, but not limited to, actions around project delivery, internal team engagement, procurement, supply chain engagement, community outreach, apprenticeship schemes, UK government and devolved nations social value policies, collaboration, and local skills development.
• Proven experience in applying industry standard social value measurement frameworks to your work, i.e., the TOMs Framework.
• Proven experience of preparing social value bid responses and successful at winning work.
• Experience of project delivery and management – including preparing and managing multiple budgets, managing resources, and working to tight deadlines.
• Confidence in liaising with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, including listening, presenting, and writing.
• A proactive attitude towards innovation, leading initiatives and driving change.

Desirable

• A professional accreditation in social value, such as completion of practitioner training provided by Social Value International.
• Experience in public speaking.
• An ability to build networks and coach others.
• Experiencing in developing new consultancy services to support business expansion.

Please note that applications for this role will close on the 16th of July 2024.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.