Social Value Coordinator

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities management company is seeking a Social Value Coordinator to support community initiatives across multiple regions. The role involves managing volunteer opportunities, engaging with stakeholders, and ensuring impactful community relations, requiring strong communication and organizational skills.

Benefits

Virtual GP access

Financial wellbeing assistance

Flexible lifestyle benefits platform

High street discounts

Life cover

Enhanced pension contributions

Cycle to work scheme

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Passion for societal, environmental, and economic factors.
• Experience in managing stakeholder relationships.
• Strong communication and administrative skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the Social Value Manager in establishing partnerships.
• Manage and promote volunteering opportunities.
• Ensure accurate reporting of volunteering data.

Skills

Communication

Relationship Management

Project Management

Data Reporting

Community Engagement

Organizational Skills

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Job Title: Social Value Coordinator

Salary: £30,000

Type of Employment: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week

Location: Network Rail, The Quadrant, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, MK9 1EN

We are looking for a Social Value Co-ordinator, this is a national role supporting the work of the Social Value Manager across all 6 regions.

• Job Overview
• The Social Value Co-ordinator will play an important role in supporting the Social Value Manager, embedding the strategy on the Network Rail contract and provide support to the wider Transport and Aviation accounts. You'll be self-motivated, with an understanding and passionate for delivering community impact. You'll present as a confident communicator, able to work with stakeholders at all levels.
• The Social Value Co-ordinator will be responsible for managing the volunteering opportunities, insuring they are in line with our 5 Social Value pillars of Education, Employment, Health and Wellbeing, Environment and Diverse Supply Chain. Working with the Regional SV Champions to manage the volunteering relationships locally. You will maximise engagement, ensuring opportunities are promoted to colleagues and the client well in advance of events.
  

Main Duties

• Support the Social Value Managing in establishing and facilitate outcome driven, effective partnerships with stakeholders, local SMEs, key strategic local partners and employers. Seeking opportunities to collaborate in local groups with shared community objectives.
• Reporting of data - Ensure all regional volunteering hours are recorded accurately, within the voluntary spreadsheet, Do-IT and the SV Portal.
• You will arrange and co-ordinate volunteering events across all regions, understanding the needs of our local partners and communities we operate. Maximising impact and ensuring there is a schedule of events across the regions.
• Demonstrate impact through case studies, contributing to the Social Value newsletter, annual report, client meeting presentations and social media posts.
• Contribute to Social Value Champion monthly calls and a Mental Health virtual meetings.
• Support the Social Value Manager with the delivery of employability and education sessions, working towards delivering sessions unaided.
• Seek opportunities to work with the Mitie Foundation to ensure consistency across wider group programmes and campaigns.
• Engage with and promote Mitie's ED&I networks.
• Keep abreast of political, environmental, and social changes, identifying community/volunteering opportunities and risks.
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• A passion and understanding of Societal, Environmental and Economic factors
• A proven track record in generating and managing new relationships with external and internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience of communicating and interfacing with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong written and verbal skills.
• A sound understanding of Customer Service Levels and KPI management.
• Proven ability to empower, coach, motivate and develop people.
• A diligent approach to work, a positive can do attitude, resilient and professional at all times.
• Strong administrative skills – organised, accurate and methodical.
• Adherence to GDPR and data protection.
• Flexible approach to work, with an appreciate that you may be required to carry out additional tasks.
• This a national role, so you must be able and willing to travel to all regions, sufficient notice will be provided.
  
  

Existing Mitie colleagues

• Please ensure that you discuss your application with your current line manager before formally applying.
• Please note that internal job moves are subject to the standard terms for the post being advertised. Enhanced terms cannot be honoured.
  
  

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 72,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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