Corporate Social Responsibility Manager

Application Reference Number: 0150
Function: Head Office
Location: Chelsea Bridge Wharf
Position Type: Permanent
Application End Date: 20/11/2020
Job Purpose: To lead the development and implementation of key CSR inititaives within Berkeley St Edward (BSE) over a 14-month period, with specific focus on Diversity & Inclusion, Health & Wellbeing and Mental Health.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

Diversity and Inclusion

• Work closely with existing Steering Group members to drive the D&I agenda at BSE, including the development of new actions and priority focus areas based on feedback received
• Take responsibility for the organisation of Steering Group meetings and drive key actions to completion
• Support the D&I calendar group in development of events
• Actively engage with the D&I champions on our sites to ensure they are fulfilling their responsibility to drive the D&I agenda in their local office(s)
• Be point of contact for all D&I-related queries (i.e. for the Steering Group, Champions, Working Groups and any other colleagues or stakeholders)
• Assist the Head of People & Development in monitoring D&I data from staff engagement surveys and developing new actions from that data
• Assist the Head of People & Development to deliver against recruitment and progression focused D&I objectives

Health and Wellbeing / Mental Health 

• Deliver a series of H&W actions across BSE for 2021, including scoping out new initatives that will have a positive impact on the H&W of BSE employees
• Deliver against our Mental Health Strategy and work to achieve more openness/ transparency around mental health while also promoting positive mental health within our workplace
• Ensure regular communications are issued around H&W and Mental Health, including information on any new initiatives, as well as reminders about our existing offering
• Promote Mental Health Awareness Week across BSE (May 2021)
• Develop and implement a physical challenge for staff in 2021 (i.e. step challenge or other)
• Develop one further event in the year focusing on another aspect of H&W
• Use staff engagement data (for H&W and Mental Health) to steer communications or new initiatives
• Engage with Britain's Healthiest Workplace and organise our participation in the survey for 2021
• Assist the Head of People & Development to monitor site usage of our key services through BUPA feedback
• Engage with our partner Mental Health charity and link staff to their support and resources
• Monitor the impact of Mental Health training and work with L&D to develop further training modules as required
• Manage our Headspace account and be a lead contact for Headspace
• Engage with H&S to ensure mental health support is covered in our construction site inductions.

General

• Work with our Operations Directors to develop our approach to Modern Slavery

Technical Competencies:

• Experience in a similar role, with demonstrated experience in developing and delivering successful CSR initiatives
• Strong ability to effectively lead campaigns and motivate others to advocate, and/or participate in, their successful delivery
• Self-motivated with a strong ability to work independently and deliver against a work plan
• Ability to solve problems in a logical manner, and generally remain solutions-focussed even in the face of perceived adversity
• Demonstrated experience fostering and maintaining productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to use raw information/data to produce reports, and effectively present information both verbally and through written documents
• Strong ability to be responsive to stakeholders and beneficiaries both during work hours and (occasionally) outside them
• Ability to solve practical problems and carry out responsibilities under general supervision
• Enthusiastic about working in an organised, structured, efficient manner
• Advanced skills in MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel (including demonstrable knowledge and understanding of intermediate to advanced Excel formulas (e.g. IF, COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, VLOOKUP)
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, both written and verbal

Person Specification:

• Proactive, self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook
• Passion for corporate responsibility
• Keen to deliver exceptional customer service
• Flexible and reliable
• Credible, and comfortable in dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders
• Reliable, tolerant, and determined
• Team player
• Empathic communicator, able to see things from the other person's point of view 

Please note our standard working hours are 8am until 5.30pm Monday to Friday. 

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