Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP’s Intelligent Infrastructure discipline works across a wide range of clients in transport and beyond. Our clients seek support in meeting their Social Value objectives through impact strategy development, supply chain data collection, reporting, and compliance to ensure positive community, economic, education and environmental outcomes. We help embed social value into client operations to meet growing stakeholder and regulatory demands.

Working within the II Operations and Safety Group, you will collaborate with specialists across WSP, applying your Social Value and monitoring & evaluation skills to projects and major infrastructure schemes in sectors such as Highways, Rail and Energy.

A typical week might include:
- Development and ownership of a client’s Social Value framework at regional or project level, setting priorities and actions
- Undertaking local needs analyses to understand community challenges and how best to address these through project delivery
- Co-creating bespoke social value plans for projects
- Working with Project Directors and wider teams to ensure understanding of social value commitments and budget availability
- Collaborating with clients and partners to provide expert social value advice to help deliver objectives and optimise benefits
- Delivering, measuring and reporting on social value against client KPIs
- Advocating for Social Value within wider supply chains through communication and dissemination activities
- Contributing to the growth of the wider Monitoring and Evaluation capability team to support delivery against its ambitions

This role may require regular working from different offices.

Experience
A passion for evidence-informed decision-making and championing robust Social Value evidence. Experience evaluating and measuring Social Value data. Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills such as statistical, economic or social research. Proven ability to articulate qualitative and quantitative impact stories through case studies. Experience working collaboratively and enthusiastically in multi-partner environments, managing multiple tasks to meet programme needs.

About you
Excellent communication skills with the ability to foster successful collaborations and engage a wide range of audiences. Enthusiastic and proactive in delivering social value objectives. Comfortable working across diverse teams and stakeholders to achieve shared goals.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications or demonstrable experience in social value, policy monitoring, evaluation, or related fields are desirable but not explicitly stated. A commitment to continuous learning and professional development is essential.