Social Value Manager
| Posting date: | 12 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £44,447 to £46,547 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2026 |
| Location: | Blackpool |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 461025/2 |
Summary
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the government’s largest public service departments with a sizeable annual budget, serving over 20 million citizens.
The estate spans 1.4 million square metres across 800+ sites and supports around 78,000 colleagues.
Our vision includes DWP colleagues, supply chain, partners and, most fundamentally, the customers the Department exists to serve. They are the reason for our existence.
We are responsible for the day-to-day operation of our vast Estate by managing a private sector supply chain that delivers essential services such as Security Guarding, Maintenance, Property and Leasehold Management, Construction, Cleaning and Facilities Management.
DWP Estates is not just about maintaining buildings - it’s about transformation. Our strategic goals include:
- Transitioning to a smaller, more affordable, and adaptable estate to meet future needs
- Investing in infrastructure through planned replacement works
- Embedding sustainability in line with Government Greening Commitments (GGCs)
- Delivering cost-effective services while maintaining high standards
- Creating a professional, best-in-class working culture across the Government Property profession
Our Estates strategy ambitions have been refreshed to take us through to 2030:
- OPTIMISE: Continue to transition to a more affordable and adaptable DWP estate that creates productive environments
- INVEST: Investment in an improved environment that better meets the needs of customers and colleagues and minimises service disruption
- SUPPORT the drive for sustainability throughout DWP
- DELIVER: Expertly deliver improving, cost-effective services for DWP
- THRIVE: Continue to develop a working culture for DWP Estates that is best in class across government
There is no better time to join the award winning DWP Estates team.
Reporting to the Social Value Lead, this role will support the Social Value performance of the Estates Supply Chain to ensure Social Value is embedded and delivered within suppliers’ contract, directly contributing to DWP’s priorities.
This role will represent DWP Estates as the intelligent client, working across a portfolio of Estates Suppliers on agreed Social Value plans and performance metrics. By fostering collaborative relationships with the Supply Chain, the role will drive innovation and identify improvement opportunities, to ensure DWP extract the most social and economic benefits from Estates contracts.
This role will also help raise the profile, understanding and importance of Social Value internally with key stakeholders, helping embed it within DWP.
Government Property Profession Career Framework (Link)
This role sits within the following:
- Job Family – Technical Specialisms and Assurance
- Core Role – Environmental Sustainability
- Level – Practitioner
Key accountabilities
Social Value Procurement, Delivery and Reporting
- Account management of a portfolio of DWP Estates Suppliers, leading the assessment, support and delivery of a Suppliers’ Social Value plan and outcomes.
- Lead a portfolio of Suppliers’ quarterly meetings and assess delivery of agreed metrics.
- Lead engagement with supply chain to ensure accurate and timely quarterly reporting of Estates Supplier Social Value KPI and SPIs, including raising risks or missed milestones.
- Support the Social Value contribution in the Estates procurement process, including the development of Social Value criteria, KPI design and weighting in tender writing and evaluation
- Support the development of a Social Value framework and dashboards to measure and monitor activity and outcomes, delivered across the Estates supply chain.
- Analyse Social Value reporting outcomes to identify trends, best practice and recommendations for areas for improvement.
- Liaise across Suppliers, internal teams and the wider department to share best practice and trial opportunities.
Strategy and Policy
- Support the implementation and delivery of the Estates’ Social Value strategy, including governance.
- Support the delivery of and act as an advocate for DWP’s central Social Value policy and strategy.
- Become a Subject Matter Expert in Social Value, the Social Value Model and associated PPNs, including updates and changes, trends and liaise across the department.
Communications and Engagement
- Engage and collaborate with internal stakeholders on Social Value to:
- Raise awareness, upskill, share best practice and improve cross departmental working
- Keep abreast of new and changes to DWP programmes which can be supported through Supplier Social Value activity
- Collaborate with Estates People & Capability to raise awareness and embed social value across the directorate
- Lead on building the profile of Estates Social Value through the delivery of an internal communications and engagement plan, across DWP Estates and wider organisation.
- Encourage the uptake of available Social Value initiatives within Estates and establish measurement mechanisms, collating data from several internal sources into one SV report.
- Engage XGov to expand Social Value stakeholder network, share best practice and support problem solve.
- Support priority projects and activities across the Estates Sustainability, Utilities and Social Value Team.
- Support reporting to estates Governance Boards and any other Boards identified.
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