Social Value Lead in Liverpool

This role is critical in defining and leading the delivery of the charity's social value agenda. It will focus on developing and embedding strategies, frameworks, and processes to deliver social value across all contracts, ensuring that AFG's social value offer aligns with both our charitable purpose and the social value priorities of our various NHS and local authority commissioners.

The Social Value Lead will work alongside both internal and external stakeholders to:

• Develop and coordinate the delivery of social value commitments.
• Establish systems to track, measure, and report on social value achievements.
• Coordinate the production of an annual Social Value Report to demonstrate the positive impact that AFG has had on the communities in which we operate.

Principal Accountabilities

• Work alongside the Director of Governance, Risk & Compliance to develop and launch a social value strategy for AFG that aligns with both organisational goals and commissioner requirements.
• Work alongside the Director of Governance, Risk & Compliance to adopt or develop robust frameworks and methodologies for delivery and measurement of social value (e.g. the National TOMS Framework).
• Develop training, guidance and other resources to embed the social value strategy and frameworks across the organisation.

Tender Support and Social Value Offers

• Work alongside the Director of Governance, Risk & Compliance to lead the social value component of competitive tenders, ensuring offers are realistic, impactful, and achievable.
• Conduct research and utilise customer intelligence to inform AFG's social value bids, ensuring that these are aligned to the social value priorities and objectives of our commissioners.
• Work with bid teams to evaluate the results, scoring and feedback from social value tender submissions and ensure that learnings from previous bids are used to adjust and calibrate future social value offers to contribute to competitive scoring.

Delivery Coordination

• Establish systems and processes for tracking AFG's social value commitments across all contracts and work with colleagues across the organisation to coordinate the effective delivery of these commitments.
• Develop systems to monitor progress, track outcomes and evidence the delivery of social value commitments, working with key account managers to communicate this information to commissioners wherever appropriate.
• Support both operational and corporate teams in delivering social value initiatives, liaising with the Health & Safety Lead as appropriate to ensure all activity is conducted safely, and providing guidance, training and resources as needed.

Measurement and Reporting

• Implement a methodology for measuring social value outcomes, aligned with TOMS or other relevant frameworks.
• Produce annual social value reports to communicate achievements and impacts to stakeholders.
• Work with colleagues in the Marketing Team to develop and maintain a social value area of the AFG website to help promote and publish our work around social value.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with commissioners, partners, and internal teams to champion social value initiatives.
• Facilitate workshops, training and internal communications to raise awareness and understanding of social value across the organisation.

Procurement Integration

• Work with the procurement team to identify opportunities to embed social value considerations into AFG's procurement practices, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and ethical standards.
• Stay informed of evolving social value requirements, best practices, and innovations within this field.
• Identify opportunities to enhance the organisation's social value impact and refine strategies.

Please only apply if you meet the essential requirements detailed below:

Person Specification

• A minimum of 3 years' experience in a social value, community development, or corporate social responsibility role.
• A track record of successfully coordinating the delivery of social value initiatives in a complex organisational setting.
• Demonstrable experience of building partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of providing administrative support or coordinating projects.

Skills & Knowledge

• Strong understanding of social value principles and frameworks (e.g., TOMS).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage diverse stakeholders.
• Highly organised with strong project management skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to analyse data and produce clear, impactful reports.
• Excellent IT skills, including office programmes - Excel, Word, Outlook, shared drives and accessing the internet.
• Ability to analyse and reconcile data.
• Good time management and ability to work to deadlines.

Qualification / Training

• Minimum 5 GCSEs or above, including English and Maths.
• NVQ Level 3 in Business administration or other equivalent qualification.
• Proficient in Office 365 applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

This role is home based and involves travel within the north west of England; we can only accept applications from residents of the north west. With our extended flexible working options you can also choose to work a 9 day fortnight or a 4.5 day week, supporting our employees with their work life balance.

This role is Band II as per our structure.

We're Alternative Futures Group, a health and social care charity providing specialist support for people with a learning disability or mental health condition. We're proud to have been positively changing lives and enabling people to achieve amazing outcomes for over 30 years. We have a vision to create a world where amazing people do amazing things every day. Our skilled and experienced teams work with every person we support to create personalised, outcome-focused plans to achieve their aspirations.

As a 'values based' employer, the people that work for us genuinely care about the people they support, and we are seeking likeminded people to join our team. If you are passionate about working in Health and Social Care and have a real desire to make a positive difference to the lives of the people we support then we would love to hear from you.

At AFG we also recognise the contribution and value that our staff make. We would not be able to provide the life changing support that we do without people like you! In return for your contribution we will support you throughout your career and we provide a wide range of employee benefits, career development and lifestyle support services to ensure that you too feel supported, fulfilled and valued from day one of your employment with us.