Social Impact Consultant in Edinburgh

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

What your new role will entail: Due to exceptional growth in demand for our services we are currently recruiting for a social impact consultant to join our Environment and Energy Advisory Practice. This role can be based from our offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow or London whilst taking advantage of our hybrid flexible working model. Successful candidates will work collaboratively with our highly experienced and specialist social impacts team to deliver a range of social impact, value and advisory projects for infrastructure and multi-national businesses as well as contributing to wider ESG advisory projects. You will gain valuable experience assessing social and equality impacts, designing monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and conducting social research for some of the UK’s highest profile projects. You will also have a role in growing AECOM’s social consultancy offer and contribute to the development of innovative approaches for our clients.

Depending on your specific technical experience you will be accountable for:

• Supporting the delivery of projects across a range of social consulting and advisory projects where your activities may include planning, research, measurement, engagement or reporting;
• Working alongside or supporting team members to build their capacity and expertise;
• Liaising and collaborating with colleagues, clients and their advisors to deliver work on time, budget and achieving excellence in delivery;
• Multitasking: working across several projects and proposals at one time;
• Supporting team members in developing costed proposals and other business development materials (e.g. for webinars, flyers, case studies, etc.);
• Building positive long-term client relationships;
• Building internal networks to promote social impact, value and advisory services within AECOM;
• Supporting the social impacts team leadership and wider Energy Advisory business unit to identify and secure new internal and external opportunities;
• Assessing social and equality impacts using a range of social research methods including primary fieldwork, data analysis (qualitative and quantitative) and evaluation.

Being part of the team

Our team have been advising our clients on sustainability governance and performance for over 20 years - supporting not only infrastructure and energy but also our industrial clients. As one of our priority growth areas, the social impacts and value team as well as the wider Environment and Energy Advisory Practice fully aligns with AECOM’s Environment and Energy growth strategies and our Global Sustainable Legacies Strategy. Our collaboration with private and public sector clients is driven by a commitment to deliver on stakeholder expectations, anticipate and manage social and environmental risks and impacts, create social value and enable a just transition. Through our established skills in social impacts and equality, carbon accounting, net zero road-mapping and implementation, decarbonisation and clean growth, ESG reporting, climate action and resilience, circular economy and, we pave the way for sustainable practices that align with global objectives and promote lasting positive impacts.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Above all, an interest in how infrastructure projects, policies and plans can impact people and communities;
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of at least one area below:
• Knowledge and understanding of the implications of the Equality Act 2010, ideally in relation to planning, major infrastructure, or environmental enhancement schemes.
• Experience in social and/or equality impact assessment of projects, policies or plans.
• Experience in basic quantitative and/or qualitative data collection and analysis.
• Experience in logic modelling/evaluations of projects, policies or plans.
• An interest in/ experience of project management, including client liaison and the financial management aspects.
• An interest in/ experience of financial management;
• An interest in/ experience of business development, marketing, and proposal preparation;
• Great communication skills in English, fluency in other languages an advantage;
• Problem solving abilities: Self-starter, who can design and deliver work under own initiative.

Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Anne Marie Flynn | LinkedIn.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.

AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.