Social Value Manager
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Kier Construction is seeking a passionate and driven Social Value Manager to lead the delivery of meaningful social impact at HMP Glasgow – a £750M flagship project replacing the aging HMP Barlinnie. This state\-of\-the\-art facility is designed with rehabilitation and sustainability at its core, offering a unique opportunity to shape lives and communities for the better.
Location: Glasgow \- On Site (Hybrid with some opportunity for home working)
Hours: Full Time, Permanent, Monday to Friday
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As Social Value Manager, you'll be at the heart of our mission to build for a sustainable world. You'll lead the development and execution of innovative social value strategies, ensuring that local communities and underrepresented groups benefit from this landmark project.
Your day to day may include (but not be limited to) :
- To work as part of project team deliver and implement social value strategy on a flagship project, ensuring that social value is a key component of the project success parameters.
- Undertake hands on delivery of programmes and engagement for HMP Glasgow, leading on a wide variety of events and initiatives to engage external and internal stakeholders.
- Ensure that the project social value strategy is embedded in supply chain partner businesses, collaborate with their social value managers / leadership to ensure adequate focus and performance.
- Manage project social value advisor and collaborate across the wider Kier business to ensure that best practice, insights and opportunities for working together are fully realised.
- Support the delivery of the Building for a Sustainable World Group targets through the project's existing Social Value KPIs, ensuring Group objectives are embedded within and delivered through agreed project targets.
- Track performance against agreed Client Social Value and project KPIs, providing accurate monthly reports on progress, evidence and actions.
This role of Social Value Manager is great for you if you can demonstrate:
- Proven experience delivering social value within construction or the built environment.
- Strong understanding of the Social Value Act, local authority drivers, and relevant frameworks (e.g., TOMs, CCS).
- Experience managing social value teams or advisors, with leadership and mentoring capabilities.
- Ability to balance strategic planning with hands\-on delivery.
- Strong analytical and reporting skills
- Experience building external networks with community organisations, local authorities, and industry bodies.
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D\&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case\-by\-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre\-employment checks.
We look forward to seeing your application to \#joinkier
- Location: Glasgow
- Vacancy ID: 12141
- Background check: BPSS Checks
- Closing date: 25 Sep 2026
- Contract type: Permanent
- Working hours: Full Time
- Flexible working: Yes
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