Locality Steward

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., Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our UKCS - Balfour Beatty Living Places team as a Locality Steward 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.

What you'll be doing

Leading on the development and coordination of services to encourage community self-help opportunities through new and existing services whilst supporting the locality agenda.

Empowering communities to do more through the use of volunteers, paying for services (community commissioning model), devolving assets and through schemes such as the Lengthsman and Drainage

Active liaison with 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 delivery mechanism for increasing support to local communities to empower them to support themselves; e.g Lengthsman and Drainage schemes, community commissioning model, supporting volunteers to take on service. Actively encourage Parishes to enrol on LM scheme and direct them to CCM for works out of BBLP scope.

Ownership of Community Commissioning schemes from inception to completion, monitoring associated costs, raising invoices and liaison with teams for delivery.

Liaison with Herefordshire Council staff.

Responsive to customer requirements with positive attitude towards the needs 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 i.e. Word, Excel etc.

Working in a political environment

Some understanding of legislation around working on the highway, open spaces, and rights of way desirable., Disability Confident
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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, 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.

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…