Atd – Social Value

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

As part of a growing and agile business, our Environmental Planning team is looking for a Social Value Lead with a broad range of socio-economic, planning, and environmental experience to drive and support a Social Value culture across Arcadis, working with the Resilience Lead for Social Value to deliver our strategy and approach.  You will work with clients to deliver, monitor and report on our social value commitments, helping to drive sustainable change and positive outcomes for communities across the UK via client projects and programs.

As part of our Environmental team, you’ll help improve quality of life. With your specialism in environmental management, or your technical or sustainability expertise, your work could involve protected species, pollution, surface water and materials management, air quality or noise. And in some of the world’s busiest and most beautiful locations.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• Work with clients, local communities and our project teams to explore aspirations and opportunities to tackle local economic, social and environmental issues.
• Monitor and report on delivery performance of social value across our projects
• Support in embedding Social Value into our project teams as well into the processes and procedures of our clients 
• Help drive Arcadis’ internal social value strategy demonstrating our market leading bespoke service.
• Develop and secure opportunities with existing and new clients as well as developing exceptional responses to bid opportunities and wider collateral.
• Develop internal relationships with the Arcadis Mobility and Places teams, liaising with Key Account Managers and sector leads.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Ability and experience of leading on Social Value with demonstrable results.
• Experience of monitoring, measuring and reporting on Social Value metrics.
• Previous work experience in a relevant industry
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to liaise with peers / senior colleagues and build and maintain relationships. 
• Excellent commercial awareness and organisational understanding
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently
• Excellent proficiency in using relevant software and systems.
• Experience in managing business relationships at Executive level. 

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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