Arup
UK Social Value Delivery Lead
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Senior Leader, UK Social Value Delivery - Arup
Joining Arup – Purpose & Collaboration
Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach have set us apart for 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world. We are an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists, offering a broad range of professional services across today’s most complex challenges.
Social value has become a critical part of public procurement and client decision-making. Organisations are increasingly required to deliver measurable, credible, and lasting impact—ensuring commitments align with evolving expectations, including the Social Value Act. In this role, you will enable Arup to embed a commercially robust, operationally strong social value approach that drives real-world benefit.
The Opportunity
Arup is seeking an experienced UK Social Value Delivery Leader to shape and lead our social value strategy and delivery across the UK. This is a senior leadership role designed for an ambitious individual who can translate vision into impactful action:
- Develop a clear regional strategy that enhances bid success, strengthens client engagement, and improves social value delivery.
- Design scalable programmes and partnerships that transcend traditional boundaries, ensuring alignment between business objectives, client outcomes, and community benefit.
- Build and lead a small central hub, collaborating with a dispersed network of bid teams, project teams, and senior stakeholders to integrate social value into every stage of the value chain.
- Create mechanisms for credible measurement and evidence-based reporting, able to demonstrate impact at both project and national levels.
This role offers an unparalleled opportunity to establish Arup’s social value capability as a leading voice and model practice in the built environment sector. You will help deliver: ✔ Stronger bids with greater social value propositions ✔ More consistent, tangible outcomes for clients and communities ✔ A credible evidence base for ongoing improvement and Proof of Concept
For the right candidate, this promise goes beyond role requirements—it’s the chance to redraw the boundaries of what’s possible in professional services, ensuring that social impact isn’t just a tick-box but a touchstone for every project we undertake.
Values that define you
You’ll thrive in a culture that values collaboration above hierarchy. If you’re passionate about shaping capability, cutting across organisational silos, and putting social value at the heart of everything we do, then you’ll belong here.
You’ll have the chance to make socially useful work meaningful—not just for Arup or your career alone, but for the people, regions, and communities we serve.
About the Role
Responsibilities
Key to this role is transforming ambition into delivery. You will:
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- Lead a central hub, balancing national unity with regional flexibility to ensure social value is embedded reproducibly across all major projects.
- Partner with senior stakeholders from strategy, procurement, bid delivery, and client engagement to align social value ambition with business needs.
- Women a modern approach to social value measurement and reporting, ensuring consistency and rigor in how impact is tracked, evaluated, and communicated.
- Influence strategy, bids, and project delivery to drive better outcomes for clients, wider built environment value chains, and vulnerable communities.
- Create frameworks and processes that can scale robustly across Arup’s global operations—for maximum sphere of good.
- Support business development, by enabling commercially superior bids through social value differentiation.
- Work at the intersection of altruism and impact—ensuring social initiatives are grounded in evidence, aligned with the market, and open to proof of innovation.
In essence, you’ll be the linchpin that ensures Arup’s social commitments are more than policy—they’re realised, recognized, and replicated.
Candidate Requirements
To deliver on this mandate, we are looking for people with:
- An honours degree, or master’s degree or equivalent (for example: sustainable development, economics, social sciences, management, planning, or architecture).
- Senior professional experience leading social value, social impact, ESG, or related programmes within a complex, commercial organization (sectors: financial services, tech, infrastructure, built environment, or consulting).
- Peak expertise in UK public procurement. This includes more than theoretical knowledge—direct experience drafting Social Value Reports, influencing bids, managing contractual obligations, or evaluating delivery frameworks throughout a procurement lifecycle.
- The ability to design scalable delivery models, measure impact systematically, and translate technical insight into comprehensive reporting that **informs business and client decisions).
- A track record of stakeholder influence across multiple levels—whether partnering with senior leadership teams, advising internal procurement, or engaging directly with suppliers, non-profits, and government.
- An understanding of the built environment, infrastructure, or professional services will be highly regarded, though cross-sector experience can be adapted.
What We Offer You
At Arup, we care about each person’s development as much as we optimise collective success. Here’s how we equip you to thrive:
✨ Relevance + Reputation Guided by our values, competitive pay reflects your contribution—and is complemented by potentially unique direct shares in the company (discretionary Profit Share). You will also benefit from absolute transparency into our finance, operations and culture, allowing you to direct work that aligns with your priorities.
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🌱 Growth Through Learning & Development Access to learning and training tailored to your aspirations—whether upskilling, acquiring new certifications, or gaining greater realms of technical, commercial, or leadership expertise.
💛 Wellbeing & Flexibility A global package may sound unattainable, but our curated flexible benefits offer a spectrum of choices customised to your life: from private medical insurance, life assurance, workplace cover to offers that sparkle in silence, such as financial wellbeing support and childcare schemes.
💡 Purposeful Impact From project stewards to community architects, you will shape legacy-inducing work—scattering new confidence where timid developers stalemate. The world needs unsettled but accountable actions that move beyond having an opinion.
🔮 ** pudo paces** As Partnership Members, if at any time you wish to move, celebrate an achievement or reimagine your trajectory—we welcome the conversation: flexible career structures let you navigate purpose beyond a conventional salary.
Who We Are & Who You Are (Diversity & Inclusion)
Arup is an equal opportunity employer—we don’t rush to look like each other, but we are committed to drawing on all strengths. Our inclusive culture depends on balancing individuality with respect.
We Cultivate:
✳️Respect— diversity of thought, lived experiences, and ambitions drives discovery. ✳️Flexibility— multiple ways of existence and accomplishment matter. ✳️Purpose — we aim to contribute to actionable futures through initiatives that address UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Our employee networks foster ongoing dialogue : from cultural heritage and racial equity to gender diversity and neurodiversity advocacy, we encourage all professional voices to leader every transition.
Equality, Accessibility & Our Recruitment Promise
Our application process is committed to accessibility—whether your preferences require adjustments for physical, cognitive, or sensory needs. If you need support to navigate our process or execute the essential duties of this role, we encourage you to contact:
Karin Spies Email: karin.spies@arup.com
Your Next Steps
To understand what’s ahead after submission:
📋 Read our Recruitment Process
🚨 Security Note: We never request payments or finacial information during recruitment—let your ambition, ambit and IDEAs speak for themsleves.
📈 Rolling Deadline Consideration Role closes Friday, 10 July 2026. Please apply directly via Arup Careers Portal. Note: We close whenever we reach a sufficiently high caliber of talent reflective of the role demands.
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