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UK Social Value Delivery Lead
Arup UK Social Value Delivery Leader – Job Description
About Arup
Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach have set us apart for 80 years, shaping how we design a better world. We are an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists, offering specialist services that advance society’s goals and aspirations.
Social value has become a critical part of public procurement and decision-making. Organisations must not only commit but must deliver sustainably, measure genuinely, and demonstrate meaningful impact. In this role, you will help ensure Arup’s approach remains commercially strong, operationally robust, and aligned with the Social Value Act (UK) and evolving procurement expectations.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced UK Social Value Delivery Leader to shape and lead our social value approach across the UK. This is a senior leadership role, ideal for someone who can turn ambition into delivery:
- Build a clear regional UK strategy for social value.
- Strengthen win-winning capabilities in bids.
- Develop scalable programmes and partnerships across the business.
- Improve how we measure and evidence social impact.
Key aspects of the role include:
- Leading a central hub that partners with senior leaders, bid teams, project teams, and external stakeholders.
- Driving high-impact models by influencing at senior levels, creating practical delivery frameworks, and aligning social value to client outcomes, community benefits, and business goals.
- Ensuring multiple diverse projects at Arup meet their social value commitments effectively.
This is a rare opportunity to establish a distinctive, high-impact social value capability in a global sector-leading consultancy. You will have visibility, influence, and the tools to create an approach that is commercially effective and genuinely transformative for communities.
Motivated to Combine Leadership and Social Impact?
At Arup, we revel in the collaborative diversity of our team—diverse perspectives, experiences, and ideas drive our work and successes.
You’ll do more than just work—you’ll make a lasting difference:
- Work on meaningful, socially impactful projects that matter to Arup, your career, clients, and communities.
- Join a collective that cares about its people, prioritising growth, belonging, and thriving through purposeful work.
Your Role at a Glance
Key Responsibilities
- Develop a high-impact strategy for UK social value delivery that aligns with Arup’s business goals.
- Enhance bid capabilities to win projects by incorporating robust social value propositions.
- Implement practical frameworks for designing, measuring, and reporting social value across complex projects.
- Implement operational delivery models that scale well and connect community impact to business outcomes.
- Foster partnerships with clients, watchdogs, and suppliers to strengthen transparency and commitment throughout projects.
- Establish a distributed network of leadership and champions across Arup’s UK operations.
- Collaborate closely with bidding teams, project teams, and senior leadership to embed social value throughout the business lifecycle.
- Build shared performance frameworks to evidence impact at regional, national, and UK scale.
- Monitor regulatory changes (e.g. Social Value Act) and confirm that Arup remains agile, competitive, and compliant.
- Represent and engage with external stakeholders, including clients, procurement advisors, and policy-makers.
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Why You Might Fit
- You have a University degree (or preferably master’s degree) in a related subject: sustainable development, economics, social sciences, or planning.
- Extensive senior experience leading social value delivery, social impact, ESG, or sustainability programmes in a complex organisational setting.
- Deep understanding of UK procurement, especially how social value is embedded in bids, delivered, and reported.
- Expertise in commercially oriented bid shaping and influencing senior-level stakeholders.
- Expertise designing clearly actionable frameworks that encompass:
- Delivery models
- Measurement approaches
- reporting processes
- Strong stakeholder management, with experience leading through behaviour change in a distributed environment.
- A background in the built environment, infrastructure, or professional services sector (desirable but not essential).
(Need guidance or have questions?) Email Karin Spies at karin.spies@arup.com. For GDPR reasons, please do not send your CV via email contact.)
Rewards and Recognition at Arup
We approach reward through lifelong trust—an acknowledgement that your efforts directly support collective ambition. Reward isn’t just about pay; it’s about growth, belonging, and making an impact.
Arup Offer Allows You:
- Competitive and fair pay, based on market analysis and professional dedication.
- Legitimate impact: work that’s meaningful, rewarding, and that drives progress
- Professional growth with opportunities to learn and lead.
- Wellbeing tools: private medical insurance, life, accident and income protection cover.
- FreeWheeler, our flexible benefits platform, helping you manage all aspects of your welfare with maximum flexibility.
- Profit Share: aligning curiosity with financial upside and support to maintain consistency during evolving market waves.
- Collaborations that drive truly unforgettable advancements for clients, communities, and global sustainability goals.
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Different People Sharing Values
Arup is a proudly diverse, inclusive firm—open to all backgrounds, immutable or mutable characteristics. Our values are constant, our approach is evolving.
We Celebrate and Support:
- Every gender identity and expression, under every circumstance of family dynamic or stage in life.
- Listening to, honouring, and investing in COVID-19 Wales Project:
- Applicants of all ages (within legal constraints).
- Neural diversity and all forms of neurotype and mental health support.
- Race, ethnicity, and cultural background; our ethnically diverse communities are our strength.
- Faith, conviction, or personal belief—however expressed, interpreted, or lived.
- All sexuality orientations: gender equity and LGBTQ+ inclusion drives positive change.
- All disabilities are positively enriched.
Our goal is not compliance—it’s progress, openness and fluid belonging. Our internal employee networks help create inclusive spaces:
- Race • Ethnicity • Cultural Inclusion
- Disability • LGBTQ+
- Gender Equity
Say You’re In, and We’ll Find the Best Way for You to Contribute
Our commitment extends beyond ‘meeting requirements’. You’ll find support to thrive as you apply: Contact Karin Spies to discuss needs and adjustments that will help you: from application to performance review, she is here to ensure accessibility for all.
Application Process
Visit https://www.arup.com/careers/recruitment-process to learn more or submit your CV.
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Recruitment Agencies
Referencing UK law and governance, Arup engages with a supplier list of trusted partners to support specific hiring demands. Unsolicited CV submissions from unaffiliated agencies will not be acknowledged.
Key Date
- Closing date: Friday 10 July 2026.
- Please apply early: we may close sooner if we see a large pool of enthusiasm.
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