Advisory Consultant (Social Value)

AECOM Corporation; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Job summary

AECOM is seeking an Advisory Consultant (Social Value) within the Economics & Economics Development (EED) Team in the UK. The role covers social value across several sectors, contributing to major infrastructure projects and client engagement.

You will influence social value outcomes through plans, reporting, and continuous improvement. Hybrid work options apply as part of a flexible environment.Candidates with consultancy experience, strong communication skills, and capability to work with

Qualifications

• Proven experience in consultancy or client organisations focused on social value.

Responsibilities

• Create social value action plans and coordinate delivery.
• Monitor and evaluate frameworks to track social value targets.
• Produce client-ready social value reports using established frameworks.
• Manage day-to-day client relationships and third-party contractors as needed.
• Provide guidance to enhance social value delivery on projects and share best practices.
• Support business development activities and proposals for social value work.

Skills

Social value consultancy

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Client relationship management

Presentation skills

Tools

Social Value Portal TOMs System

THRIVE

Job description

• Legal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited
• Business Line: Advisory
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: UK - London - Aldgate Tower

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

The Advisory Consultant (Social Value) role will sit within the Economics & Economics Development (EED) Team as part AECOM’s Buildings and Places business. The EED Team works across a range of business sectors including energy, nuclear, transport, water, residential, commercial and regeneration and has worked on several major infrastructure projects such as High Speed Two, Heathrow Airport, Sizewell C and A303 Stonehenge.

Key Responsibilities

• Creating social value action plans, coordinating, and delivering social value initiatives.
• Ongoing monitoring and evaluation frameworks to enable clients to track and assess performance against social value targets
• Producing client-ready social value report using established monitoring and evaluation frameworks which track and assess performance against social value targets
• Managing day-to-day client relationships and, where relevant, third-party contractors and other stakeholders
• Providing guidance and insight to clients to enhance social value delivery on projects, and sharing best practices
• Supporting new social value work-winning opportunities, including undertaking business development activities and supporting the preparation of proposals

Qualifications

Key Experience and Skills

Proven experience gained within a consultancy or client organisation with a focus on social value work

• Knowledge and evidenced understanding of the implications of the Public Sector Services Act 2012, PPN 001 & PPN002 and other legislation in relation to planning, major infrastructure and urban regeneration
• Experience writing social value tender submissions and supporting work winning activities.
• Experience engaging with partners or stakeholders such as employment and educational organisations, social enterprises and charities to develop and maximise social value outcomes.
• Data analysis, management and presentation skills (strong Excel skills, and experience working with Social Value Portal TOMs System and THRIVE would be an advantage)
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, including experience in leading and chairing meetings

Additional Information

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options.Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are aDisabilityConfidentEmployer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through theDisabilityConfidentInterview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.