Social Value Project Manager - Newcastle

Social Value Project Manager

Job Title: Social Value Project Manager

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary: Competitive salary and package, dependent on experience

Hybrid Working: This role will require regular attendance at our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office, with flexibility to work at client and partner locations where required.

Security Clearance: Any offer of employment may be subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance. This requires five years’ continuous UK address history at the point of application, typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside the UK.

As a team

Join Accenture and help deliver meaningful change for our clients, our people and the communities in which we work. Based in our Newcastle Advanced Technology Centre, you will work across regional leadership, recruitment, delivery and client teams to shape social value, social mobility and early talent programmes that respond to local needs and support sustainable business growth.

Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub delivering high-quality services to public and private sector clients. You will join an inclusive, collaborative environment where shared success, diverse perspectives and continuous learning create opportunities to grow your career.

In our team you will learn

Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub from where we deliver high quality services to a number of private and public sector clients.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

As a Social Value Project Manager, you will

• Manage an integrated delivery plan for a range of social value commitments across multiple contracts, maintaining clear ownership, milestones and dependencies.

• Provide clear, accurate reporting against the plan, proactively flagging risks and issues and driving actions to ensure commitments are delivered on time and in line with agreed outcomes.

• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities and maintain a strong pipeline of new social value activities.

• Work collaboratively with clients to connect commitments across contracts, identify synergies and deliver additional value for clients and communities.

• Use AI ethically and appropriately to accelerate outputs, improve insight and support efficient delivery, while applying suitable judgement, governance and quality assurance.

We are looking for experience in the following skills

• Experience managing integrated delivery plans across multiple contracts or workstreams, with clear ownership, milestones and dependencies.

• Strong reporting and analytical skills, with the ability to monitor progress, maintain accurate delivery information and communicate performance clearly.

• A proven ability to identify, assess and escalate risks and issues, drive mitigating actions and support on-time, on-plan delivery.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience working across internal teams, external organisations and community partners to develop a pipeline of activities.

• Experience collaborating with clients to align commitments, identify synergies and create additional value across contracts.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to tailor updates, recommendations and decisions for different audiences.

• An understanding of how to use AI ethically and appropriately to improve efficiency and accelerate outputs, supported by sound judgement, governance and quality assurance.

Set yourself apart

• Knowledge of the North East skills, education, employability or community ecosystem.

• A strong interest in technology careers and inclusive routes into the sector.

• Experience supporting public sector bids or contractual social value commitments.

• Strong storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate impact through evidence and human-centred narratives.

About Accenture

We work with one shared purpose: to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Every day, more than 775,000 of us help our stakeholders continuously reinvent. Together, we drive positive change and deliver value to our clients, partners, shareholders, communities, and each other.

We believe that delivering value requires innovation, and innovation thrives in an inclusive and diverse environment. We actively foster a workplace free from bias, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is respected and empowered to do their best work.

At Accenture, we see well-being holistically, supporting our people’s physical, mental, and financial health. We also provide opportunities to keep skills relevant through certifications, learning, and diverse work experiences. We’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the World’s Best Workplaces™.

Join Accenture to work at the heart of change. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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Bring your incredible skills and join our global team of innovators. We come together from different backgrounds across the world and work with the latest technologies to create value and growth for our clients. With us, you’ll continue to learn and grow so you can advance in your career. Your personal dreams and ambitions are just as important to us; that’s why we offer support any way we can—when you thrive, we all thrive.

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