Community Investment Executive
- £30000 - £55000 per annum
- Barking and Dagenham, London
- PERMANENT
Job Title: Community Investment Executive
Department: Business Development, Marketing and Social Value
Reports to: Community Investment Manager
Location: Hybrid (head office and project sites)
Role Purpose
The Community Investment Executive will support the delivery, measurement, and reporting of social value commitments across all projects. The role is critical in ensuring compliance with public procurement requirements, particularly under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, and in delivering measurable community impact aligned to client expectations and social value frameworks such as the National TOMs.
Working closely with community investment manager, senior business development manager, marketing executive, project managers, commercial teams, and supply chain partners, the Community Investment Executive will ensure commitments made at tender stage are translated into meaningful, trackable outcomes on site.
Person Specification
Personality:
- Self-driven, results orientated with a positive outlook
- Good planner with strong organisational and coordination skills
- Able to assess own performance
- Reliable, tolerant, empathetic, team player
- Sufficiently mobile and flexible to attend evening meetings/forums and work unsociable hours from time to time
- Well-presented and business like
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Basic level of commercial awareness within construction
- Relationship building and influencing
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work across multiple live projects
- Resilience in fast-paced site environments
- Full UK driving licence
- Able to commit to extended hours where necessary
- Prepared to travel to various sites/offices, which may include long journeys
- Ensure any required training and certificates are valid at all times
- DBS certificate and your agreement to periodic checks may be required
Specific Job Skill/ Experience
Essential
- 1-3 years' experience in social value, sustainability, CSR, or construction community engagement.
- Strong data tracking and reporting skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.