Social Value & Stakeholder Advisor

Sisk are looking for a Social Value & Stakeholder Advisor to join our team in Derby on a 6 month contract. A key role to support the implementation of a professional, competent, and knowledge sharing culture across your project to ensuring that best in class social value and stakeholder management is planned, implemented, delivered, and shared effectively and be seen as a positive value adding service.

A key part of the role will be to work alongside the Senior Project Manager and Client Project Manager to support with Stakeholder duties such as communications, publications and community updates.

John Sisk & Son have been building excellence as a family-owned international construction company by offering trust, certainty and value to our clients whilst being at the heart of change.    

• Update, and execute the Stakeholder and Social Value Plans and implement the relevant parts of the Management System
• Update Stakeholder Trackers and Stakeholder Action Trackers
• Support Regional Social Value and Stakeholder Manager in understanding client requirements
• Assume line management responsibility for work experience placements arranged for the project by assigning mentors and activities
• Attend supplier, client, and project meetings, as necessary
• Be the lead contact between client communications and the project delivery team
• Represent the project on client and Sisk working groups
• Report social value achievements and outputs using and client templates / reporting tools within agreed reporting periods against social value targets and collate evidence
• Conduct/support the investigation of query/complaint events, and implement controls to prevent repeat occurrence
• Work with staff, clients, and suppliers to understand the industry and the business, taking opportunities to learn and improve as they arise
• Be aware of any changes to standards and legislation through attending training and knowledge sharing events
• Support delivery of the Considerate Constructors Scheme
• Follow internal assurance process  and support external audits.
• Establish and maintain positive working relationships with clients and stakeholders.

• Effective and confident communicator, both written and oral
• Good time manager
• Organisation and record keeping skills
• Attention to detail
• Patient, empathetic, interpersonal, and engaging
• Good IT skills
• Be influential
• Assertiveness
• Good people manager
• Excellent team and lone worker
• Aspire to achieve and inspire the highest performance levels

• Educated to Degree level
• Strong communication skills

• Confident use of Microsoft Office applications.

Desirable

• Familiarity with the Constructors and the impact is has on a community
• Experience of handling stakeholder enquiries efficiently 

• Competitive Salary  

• Company Car or Car Allowance  

• 26 days holiday (option to purchase 5 more)   

• Employer pension    

• Competitive mileage rate    

• Travel expenses    

• Flexible and remote working    

• Enhanced parental leave    

• Professional and Educational development    

Our people are at the heart of our success and our proposition to them is work with purpose, have time for life, build a career with no limits and surround yourself with great people.    

Our Internal Recruitment Team fulfil all vacancies on a direct basis. Unsolicited contact by unapproved agencies (sharing speculative CVs) will not be accepted and introductory fees will not apply.   

*The full job specification is available on request    

At Sisk we are committed to attracting and hiring diverse talent into our organisation. We know the confidence gap and imposter phenomenon can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates. We also know that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't feel they meet all the criteria. Give your transferable skills the chance to tell the full story. It’s not all about your technical expertise. Don’t hold back, we’d love to hear from you.