Social Value Advisor

Job Title: Social Value Advisor
Location: Oxford (Site-Based)
Company: Laing O'Rourke

Laing O'Rourke is seeking a passionate Social Value Advisor to join its project delivery team on a landmark development in Oxford. This pivotal, site-based role is ideal for someone driven to create tangible, community-focused outcomes in education, employment, and local investment.

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver Social Value strategies on projects, focusing on education, employment, and community investment.
- Monitor and report on delivery outputs and identify risks or issues against contractual KPIs and sustainability targets.
- Set and implement KPIs and delivery plans aligned to central and client social value priorities.
- Build and manage stakeholder relationships with delivery partners, site teams, and supply chain.
- Raise awareness of social value strategies, educating project teams in its delivery inc. chairing stakeholder meetings and presenting.
- Drive procurement excellence by using Laing O'Rourke's Social Value Playbook to embed social value commitments into procurement processes and ensure supply chain alignment.
- Monitor and measure impact, evaluating social value delivery and tracking outcomes using impact tools.
- Promote best practice by staying informed on social value trends

About You

- Have a deep understanding of social value drivers, frameworks, and their application across public and private sectors.
- Are experienced in delivering social value strategies and engaging diverse teams.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to inspire and influence others.
- Have experience in the construction sector (preferred) or transferable skills from other industries or relevant roles.

About us

At Laing O'Rourke, you'll join an established, supportive team and work on large-scale projects that make a tangible difference. We offer the depth of opportunity to grow your career while contributing to meaningful social value outcomes.

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia. Our ambition is to be the recognised leader for innovation and excellence in the industry, driven by technical excellence in design, manufacturing and construction. Our business strategy is focussed on making an even bigger contribution to society by delivering buildings and infrastructure that excite, enable, and support people and communities, leaving an amazing legacy from our work.

Using the power of experience, we have developed a new approach to social value, placing people and communities at the heart of what we do. Our goal is to maximise the socio-economic benefits delivered through operations and give our people and communities the support they need to thrive.

We offer a competitive remuneration package (base salary + car/travel allowance) with access to PMI; enhanced pension and parental leave schemes; Life/Dental/Critical illness insurance and income protection; 33 days holiday inc. bank holidays; professional development opportunities and more!  

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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