Job Description

About the role
Balfour Beatty are seeking a Social Impact Coordinator to join our place-based Social Impact team to support events and programmes that deliver against our project requirements and make a difference to local people based in Inverness with travel to Elgin once per week.
Please note: Due to the travel involved, this role does come with a company car and as the successful applicant will need to hold a full driving license.
Within this role you'll support our existing team of Social Impact Managers within our Power Transmission & Distribution (PT&D) and Regional Scotland business to Support with data collation and data interpretation, ensuring that the data we are collecting and reporting is robust and to a high quality, whilst also supporting the team with both internal business reporting and external data reporting across all PT&D and Regional Scotland energy projects in Scotland.
The role offers flexible hybrid working, potentially based within either our offices in
Inverness, Elgin, Project sites in Highland and Moray and Home working
What you'll be doing
As a Social Impact Coordinator, you will have the following accountabilities:

• Support our Social Impact team to set up data capturing processes which enable our energy projects to demonstrate our impacts on local communities - this will include collation of local labour statistics, apprentice data, graduate data, training completed on site, number of new jobs created.

• Support our team to collate data to support reporting on spend data which includes spend within local areas, across Scotland, across UK, spend with SME's, spend with Social Enterprise's and Supported Businesses.

• Supporting our team to collate data on travel, logistics and hospitality to support our reporting on number of staff nights in local accommodation, value of subsistence allowance, regional flights taken to local authorities, number of ferry journeys.

• Support our team to collate data on our Community Investment activities which includes data on STEM workshops delivered, volunteering hours with local charities and donations/in kind contributions to local charities.

• Support our Social Impact team to create monthly, quarterly and annual reports for our energy projects

• Work with our Senior Social Impact Manager to create annual infographics which profiles our overall KPI's for all energy projects,

• Supporting our projects to deliver social impact outcomes when required by developing local networks of community groups, third sector organisations, employability partners and charities.

Who we're looking for
You'll have the following:

• A genuine passion for making a difference within the communities in which we operate.

• An interest in data collection and a keen attention to detail

• Has an awareness of Social Value tools, TOMs and interest in capturing Social Value measurements.

• Excellent communication and planning skills and the ability to 'get things done' on projects that often have tight deadlines for reporting

• Experience of working in a community facing role is desirable but not essential.

• Strong IT skills across the Microsoft suite and comfortable learning about and working with new and evolving digital tools for reporting of outcomes.

• Clean UK Driving License.

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 morexe2x80xa6
About us
From Dunfermline's tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland's transition towards net zero in the built environment.
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
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also 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:
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