Social Impact Advisor - Derby - Derby

Power T&D

Health Safety Environment

Derby

Permanent

About the role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Power T&D team as a Social Impact Advisor - Derby , you will work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

Due to business growth, Balfour Beatty has created a new role for a Social Impact Advisor to support our PT&D business. The role will report into Senior ES Manager – Business Development, and work closely with the Head of Sustainability PT&D, alongside the central Social Impact team.

What you'll be doing

• Develop the social impact strategy across the business unit to support project bids and tenders. Including, conducting research, providing local intelligence information, developing and reviewing Social Impact related responses for tenders, identifying resource and budget requirements and attending work winning interviews with clients.
• Working closely with the commercial team to ensure Social Impact budgets are utilised effectively.
• Support the ongoing communication of Balfour Beatty’s Social Impact achievements through the work winning team and wider business.
• Pitch social value offers to clients, take on their feedback and drive a plan for implementation.
• Responsible for aligning and actioning initiatives and deliverables with the Balfour Beatty Sustainability framework throughout the process including the preconstruction and work winning teams and plan to support mobilisation of operational readiness.
• Responsible for the creation and development of Social Impact proposals for sector clients.
• Regularly review intelligence data to ensure the social impact plan continues to deliver the impact required and identify opportunities for additional impact.
• Work in collaboration with the Balfour Beatty Group Social Impact team to support Group programmes and deliver Group Social Impact requirements.
• Provide support to the procurement, estimating and commercial teams as required.
• Work collaboratively with the responsible sourcing team, ensuring that any client or project specific requirements are communicated and deliverable.
• Utilising appropriate tools, identify and agree social impact commitments and ensure KPIs are cascaded to the supply chain via Procurement and Commercial teams.
• Providing data as required for clients.
• Identify and engage with charities, community groups and not for profits organisations, ensuring these are aligned with Balfour Beatty’s group policy and support the delivery of both the clients’ requirements and Balfour Beatty Group or Regional initiatives.
• Establish and maintain partnerships with relevant stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of Social Impact initiatives.

Who we're looking for

• As a key member of the Balfour Beatty PT&D work winning team the role must work closely and collaboratively with the Balfour Beatty Group Social Impact team to deliver group requirements and support the development of enhanced social impact processes and work programmes.
• A proven track record of successfully developing social impact plans and delivering social impact aligned with local and regional requirements.
• Ability to influence procurement and commercial colleagues and effectively communicate the advantages of embedding social impact criteria and KPI’s within supply chain tenders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively at all levels of the organisation and with external stakeholders.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to measure and evaluate the impact of social impact initiatives using quantitative and qualitative data.
• Ability to consider sustainability holistically.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]