Social Impact Advisor in Elgin

About the role

Deliver locally relevant and measurable social impact in line with our Building New Futures strategy, ensuring programmes, initiatives and partnerships meet customer expectations and respond to community needs.

What you'll be doing

• Develop Social Impact Action Plans for Pathway to 2030 overhead-line projects across Highland, Moray and Aberdeenshire.


• Support the delivery of our Social Impact Plans through attending events, engaging with community stakeholders and supply chain partners, facilitating awareness-raising workshops, coordinating employee volunteering and supporting project placements.


• Ensure all initiatives are aligned with the Building New Futures strategy, customer priorities, and local needs.


• Work closely with project teams and customers to research, design, and implement bespoke Social Impact Action Plans.


• Undertake associated needs analysis and align delivery with customer requirements, relevant Scottish Government policy and customers' obligations under the sustainable procurement duty in the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.


• Build relationships with Community Wealth Building and Community Benefit leads within the local authority areas and develop collaboration with industry partners.


• Support, plan and deliver complex programmes and events that may involve local
  communities, supply chain partners, educational institutions, and third-sector organisations.

Who we're looking for

• Ability to travel regularly across the project area, supported by a full UK driving licence.


• Experience recording evidence and maintaining auditable project data.


• Ability to work independently across multiple sites and priorities.
  Programme Delivery & Planning


• Proven experience delivering social impact, social value, or purpose-led initiatives.


• Understanding of how social impact aligns with business objectives, customer expectations, and community needs.


• Understanding of relevant legislation and regulation to support delivery of customer commitments.


• Experience developing or delivering action plans, community engagement strategies, or economic development initiatives.


• Confident communicator, able to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including customers, site teams, schools, community organisations, supply chain, and local authorities.


• Experience supporting local partnerships, with a collaborative and inclusive approach.


• Comfortable representing the business in community settings, at project reviews, or during work winning processes.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK's most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We're making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we've got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

We're looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com