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Senior Social Value Consultant

Salary
Location Manchester, London or Birmingham
Mergefield Title {Mergefield Value}
Mergefield Title {Mergefield Value}

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Location: Manchester, London or Birmingham

As a Senior Social Value Consultant, you’ll lead high-quality advisory commissions and help grow our client-facing social value service. You’ll work with clients to understand, embed and maximise social value across their projects, programmes and organisations.

You’ll join the Social Value Advisory Lead and colleagues across Ridge, supporting public and private sector clients throughout the built environment. Your portfolio may include master planning, design, housing, infrastructure and regeneration.

You’ll advise on areas such as strategy and policy development, procurement, local needs assessments, stakeholder engagement and co-production, impact assessments, and organisational capability. You’ll need proven experience across these types of projects and advisory activities.

Reporting to the Social Value Advisory Lead, you’ll take commissions from opportunity through to delivery. You’ll build trusted client relationships, shape proposals and develop a sustainable pipeline while achieving strong commercial, technical and social outcomes. You will identify opportunities internally across the Partnership and externally through clients and the wider market, shaping proposals and building a sustainable pipeline.

This role will suit you if you are an entrepreneurial consultant who enjoys leading complex projects, developing practical solutions to social challenges and building lasting relationships. Ridge manages its internal social value programmes, corporate responsibility activities and business-wide impact initiatives separately, so they are not part of this role.

What you’ll do:

Business development and collaboration

  • Identify and develop opportunities, contribute to bids and proposals, and help build a sustainable pipeline of social value advisory work.
  • Build relationships with existing and prospective clients and with colleagues across disciplines and regions.
  • Help integrate social value into wider commissions.
  • Support market engagement, thought leadership and the development of sector-specific services.

Client leadership

  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders and identify opportunities for repeat or additional work.
  • Lead advisory commissions from scoping and mobilisation through to completion.
  • Deliver practical, evidence-based outputs that reflect relevant policy and good practice.
  • Manage client expectations and maintain high standards of quality, satisfaction and impact.

Commercial and project management

  • Prepare scopes, fee proposals, programmes and budgets.
  • Manage project resources, risks and commercial performance.
  • Maintain accurate forecasts and pipeline information, following Ridge project and commercial processes.
  • Manage several projects and competing priorities while meeting deadlines and maintaining quality.

Team and service development

You’ll work with colleagues on commissions, share knowledge and help strengthen capability across Ridge.

You’ll improve our social value advisory service by developing practical methods, tools, templates and guidance. You’ll also stay informed about emerging policy, legislation and market practice, using your insights to shape new services and opportunities.

What you’ll bring:

  • A degree-level qualification in a relevant discipline.
  • At least five years’ experience in social value, environmental, social and governance, sustainability, socio-economics, stakeholder engagement or a related field.
  • Experience in the built environment.
  • Good knowledge of social value policy, public procurement and planning frameworks.
  • Proven experience of securing and delivering consultancy commissions.
  • Experience of managing client relationships and leading projects.
  • Strong commercial awareness and business development skills.
  • Experience of supporting public sector clients.
  • Strong organisation and project management skills.
  • Experience of carrying out local needs assessments, equality impact needs assessments or similar work.
  • Experience of delivering stakeholder engagement.
  • Strong report-writing and quality assurance skills.
  • Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
  • The ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
  • Willingness to travel across the UK when client and project work requires it.

 

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,400+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They’re the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.

  • Quality
  • THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR BUSINESS.

From concept to execution, our work is driven by passion, technical expertise and an uncompromising commitment to excellence - delivering solutions that stand the test of time. We don’t need - or want - to be the biggest. Just the best.

  • Ingenuity
  • AS STANDARD.

We question assumptions and look beyond the obvious - applying technical depth and creativity to solve problems that matter. We find better ways today, then improve on them tomorrow.

  • Partnership
  • BUILT ON TRUST. GROWN OVER TIME.

Since 1946, strong relationships have shaped everything we do. We listen, challenge with care, and stay with you for the long haul - turning shared goals into lasting impact.

  • Aspiration
  • THE FIRE IN OUR BELLY.

We start with a vision - then push the boundaries of what’s possible. With bold ideas and a clear view of the future, we turn ambitions into meaningful outcomes.

The benefits package we have put together for you supports every aspect of your life.

Annual
leave

A healthy holiday allowance that starts at 25 days pa, plus the option to buy, carry over or sell.

Community
spirit

You can take three volunteering days each year to spend time on causes close to your heart.

Mental
health

Mental Health First Aiders are here to support you, backed up by Unum’s Help@hand app.

Financial benefits

A path to peace of mind: life assurance, pension scheme and income protection.

Physical
wellbeing

Your health is a priority for us too, so we offer medical insurance, private GP access and discounted gym membership.

Flexible
working

Our flexible approach to hybrid working is there to suit you, your family and your team.

Career development

A pathway at Ridge that’s focused on your professional, personal or educational aspirations.

Extra
benefits

Performance bonus, car allowance and more based on your role - and progression.

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application and selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

A polite note to recruitment agencies

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

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