Permanent - 37.5 Hours per week
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Social Value Manager to join our team. You will work alongside the Social Value Manager responsible for Delivery to formulate and help deliver an effective social value strategy for the London region.
Leading the Social Value narrative, you will understand what a good social value offer looks like for both construction and regeneration bids and support the bid process and submission stages by supplying information on social value and community issues. You will collaborate with the Social Value Manager responsible for Delivery when formulating social value proposals and ensure bid proposals are realistic and deliverable.
You will proactively formulate and build new relationships across the London Boroughs, Housing Associations and third sector colleagues and attend dialogue meetings, resident group meetings and site visits during the bid process. You will be involved in the roll out of new initiatives such as ROTL and care leavers covenant, and work with our Sustainability Coordinator to ensure sustainability requirements are embedded into bid commitments, ensuring that these can be delivered and maximised.
We're looking for an experienced Social Value Manager- someone who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, as well as being outgoing and confident to speak with external stakeholders and community members. With knowledge of the different Social Value portals, you will understand what a good social value offering looks like and how to narrate that to a group of people, either internally or in a work winning environment.
You will have a high level of resilience and determination and work well independently as well as part of a team. You will ideally have some strong existing relationships around the Local Authority sector and be comfortable representing Lovell at external conferences/events.
Above all, you will be passionate about social value and making improvements to our communities!
Benefits
- Bonus entitlement based on regional performance KPIs
- Holidays - 26 days
- Life Assurance
- Pension
- Private medical insurance
- Ability to purchase additional holiday
- Access to discount portal
- Cycle to Work scheme and the Lovell Way to EV
- Digital GP
- Employee assistance programme
- Sharesave scheme
As an Investors in People Gold award employer, Lovell is the UK's leading provider of mixed tenure affordable homes and has a reputation for innovation and excellence in the delivery of high-quality housing development and regeneration projects.
We are committed to enhancing the communities in which we work, building quality homes for real people and looking after our own people; developing talent is key to achieving this. We understand that the success of our organisation comes from the strengths, skills and personalities of our people. Lovell is an equal opportunities employer who encourage and value diversity and inclusion within our teams.
The Lovell culture is one that has been successful for many years. It is based on empowering colleagues to make decisions at a regional and local level, and to challenge the status quo whilst working as one to achieve our goals and make Lovell a great place to work for all.