SOCIAL VALUE ENGAGEMENT OFFICER

Position Description.
We are looking for a Social Value Engagement Officer to help us deliver a major project over the next four years and beyond based in Belfast.
You'll help empower local individuals through skills development, career guidance, and mentoring, making a real impact while gaining valuable experience in a global organisation.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine.
We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee.
We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant.
Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts.
We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.
This is a part-time role, hours per week, co-located in the CGI Belfast office and client site, with travel as required across Northern Ireland.
Your future duties and responsibilities.
This is a brand new programme and you will deliver a variety of opportunities that will add value to the local community in Belfast.
Your role will focus on skills development, mentoring and education to support people in the local community, including vulnerable adults leaving prison and those on probation in the community, as well as young people and children.
You’ll manage and lead activities hosted by CGI and our Partner organisations.
Specifically you will.
• Work in partnership with teams across our client and CGI, to raise awareness of the Social Impact commitments, supporting the reporting and data analysis requirements and showcasing tangible localised impact through a social value lens.
• Identify beneficiaries across our clients services who meet the project criteria and promote and present social value initiatives to them.
• Provide and co-ordinate a range of skills development support to individuals and groups including • Facilitate CGI employees visiting our clients services to talk about the work of CGI, the types of jobs CGI offer and the skills/qualifications we look for • Deliver skills and IT workshops alongside CGI and our clients colleagues • Host our clients beneficiaries on brief visits to the client delivery centre (subject of course to security, and to Authority agreement) during periods such as testing and training • Provide skills development and mentoring for women in the criminal justice system, supporting by our client to include motivational careers advice and skills/employability mentoring.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role.
This role is a social value role and as such we’re keen to recruit someone who ideally, but not exclusively, fits one of the following backgrounds/criteria; • A person who is in education or has left education in the last 12 months and is seeking employment • A person who is long-term unemployed • A person who has a disability and is currently seeking employment • Be located in a deprived area and currently seeking employment • A person who is from an underrepresented group In addition we would like you to be able to demonstrate the following; • Good planning skills, with excellent attention to detail and high standards • Confident in use of Microsoft 365 • Enthusiastic and highly motivated with an eye for compliance and detail • Flexible approach and able to manage varying workload • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Ability to build and sustain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders • Commitment and ability to uphold confidentiality • Understanding and empathetic towards supporting people who have been convicted of crime / impacted as a victim of crime and/or have lived with trauma.
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