Principal Social Value Consultant

Location/s: London
Relocation supported: Not supported
Recruiter contact: Madeleine Knight

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit
Client organisations face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges throughout their business, and drivers for change are both wide ranging and influential on each another. This includes the need to maximise investment, pursuing net zero and making the energy transition. Climate resilience, digital transformation, and environmental and social outcomes also command new ways of thinking and working.

Our range of strategic advisory capabilities help executive teams articulate the future state of their enterprise, programme or problem that aligns their people, processes, information, and technology.

Our integrated management consultancy services leverage our rich technical excellence of complex problem solving, proven through the practical delivery of projects and programmes through our asset management, business change, digital and data, and value chain solutions.

About the role
We are looking for a Principal Social Value Consultant to deliver meaningful impact through our projects and help us develop our social advisory offering.

You would join our growing social value team, sitting within our Strategic Advisory Portfolio, driving the delivery of social value across our projects and helping us develop our social advisory offering with our procurement and social impact specialists.

We are looking for an adaptable, enthusiastic and dynamic individual happy to work across a variety of different sectors, from water to healthcare to transport.

You will: 
•    Work with colleagues to embed social value delivery into contracts and project delivery – this includes developing unit, sector, and project specific social value strategies and action plans. 
•    Manage and supervise the work of other staff and coach more junior colleagues.  
•    Support the development of a social value consultancy offer as part of the Strategic Advisory business. 
•    Manage and deliver a range of social value projects across Mott MacDonald’s sectors, to include stakeholder relationship management with clients and project teams. 
•    Work closely with bid teams across our business units and sectors to respond to tendering requirements.
•    Drive and feed into the continuous improvement around Mott MacDonald’s social value approach.
•    Support upskilling and capacity building across the UK business, including developing domain knowledge of early career professionals.
•    Be client facing with accountability for one or more key customer relationships and delivery of outputs.

Candidate specification
Essential
•    A strong understanding of Social Value including the 2023 Procurement Act, Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, PPN 06/20 and PPN 002. 
•    Experience of working within the social value field.
•    Experience of project delivery and management – including budgets, reporting, and working to tight deadlines.
•    Experience in shaping client and community focused solutions.
•    Confidence in liaising with senior internal and external stakeholders.
•    Excellent communication skills, including listening, presenting, and writing.
•    Strategic thinking, creativity and the ability to adapt to respond to client and stakeholder needs.
•    An ability to build networks and coach others. 
•    A proactive attitude towards innovation, leading initiatives and driving change.
•    Experience of developing social value plans and strategies including, but not limited to, actions around skills, education and employment; community engagement; and supply chain diversification.

Desirable
•    Experience of contributing to bids and winning work.
•    Degree educated or a minimum of level 4 apprenticeship, preferably in Social Sustainability or a related field.
•    Willingness to work towards a related social value professional accreditation such as the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability.

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working  

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

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.

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.