Social Value and Community Engagement Specialist

Are you passionate about making a difference in the community? Do you thrive on creating positive social impact and building meaningful relationships? 

As a Social Value and Community Engagement Specialist, you will be at the heart of our efforts to enhance our social value, community, and pro bono initiatives. You will plan and deliver impactful projects, engage with a variety of stakeholders, and measure the success of our efforts to ensure we are making a real difference.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Collaborate closely with the pitch and responsible business team to capture social value commitments and assess delivery requirements.
• Track and report on the social value commitments made to our clients.
• Identify opportunities to deliver social value activities in local communities linked to our client contracts.
• Liaise with educational partners, charities, community groups, and volunteering platforms across the UK.
• Deliver social value training sessions, both online and in person, to students or disadvantaged groups using pre-prepared materials.
• Support the management of our wider community partner portfolio by setting up relationship catch-up meetings, actioning findings, and gaining feedback to improve our community and social value offerings.
• Assist in planning and delivering related community and awareness events at the firm, such as volunteering week and Fairtrade Fortnight.
• Support the firm's pro bono programme by coordinating a network of pro bono champions to help deliver pro bono services into local communities.
• Use the firm's internal communication channels to raise awareness of social value, community engagement, and pro bono efforts by writing articles and content.
• Contribute case studies and data on our social value, community engagement, and pro bono efforts to evidence our approach to clients and other stakeholders.
• Engage with key external organisations to collaborate on best practices and bring these insights into the firm.

What We Need From You:

• Experience in community impact, social value, or responsible business, or the ability to demonstrate clear transferable skills.
• Understanding of key areas such as community delivery, social value delivery, and measurement of community impact.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage and influence stakeholders.
• Strong project management skills to run multiple projects on time and on budget.
• Ability to build partnerships and work collaboratively.
• Ability to deliver presentations and information sessions to external audiences.
• Good data management and reporting skills.

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are delighted to have been named RollOnFriday's 'Best Law Firm to Work At' 2024, for the third year in a row, and also named as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2023 for the second year running.  Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

If you have any questions regarding the role or the interview process, please contact Jenna.Hazel@burges-salmon.com

Please apply by 16 January to be considered for this role