Locality Steward

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Living Places team as a Locality Steward on a 11-month fixed-term contract, you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

• Leading the development and coordination of services to encourage community self-help opportunities through new and existing service whilst supporting the locality agenda.
• Empowering communities to do more through the use of volunteers, paying for services (community commissioning model), developing assets through schemes such as Lengthsman and Drainage.
• Active liaison with the community groups, landowners and other interested groups in the provision of services, actively coordinating best solutions around delivery to meet their needs.
• Effectively supporting the customer services, and locality teams in providing a positive customer experience ensuring the contract delivers a responsive and needs-focused service effectively managing their expectations.
• Identify opportunities and deliver mechanism for increasing support to local communities to empower them to support themselves; e.g. Lengthsman and Drainage schemes, community commissioning models. Actively encourage Parishes to enrol on LM scheme and direct them to CCM for works out of BBLP scope.

• Responsive to customer requirements with positive attitude towards the need of all stakeholders.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Good presentation, influencing and motivation skills.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Desire to develop and is motivated to achieving targets.
• PC Literate and knowledge of MS suite.
• Working in a political environment.
• Some understanding of legislation around working on the highway, open spaces, and right of way.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]