Social Value Policy & Delivery Lead

The Service & Team:

This role will sit within the Council Commercial Assurance team. The Commercial team have led a successful application for Public Health Prevention Funding to deliver an improvement project to embed social value corporately and sustainably across the Council.

The Role:

Cornwall Council is a large unitary Council spending 1.2bn through the external supply chain in 2024/25 across 6034 suppliers with 857 contracts in place.

This fixed term role (funded for 1 year) will lead a project to improve our approach to social value and embed social value corporately. This unique and exiting position will ensure that our external spend generates meaningful social value outcomes monitored and evidenced through procurement and contract management.

The role will lead and coordinate corporate engagement bring together learning to date the requirements of Council services new government guidance and expertise in health and prevention to deliver a new corporate social value policy.

Collaborating with your Line Manager you will develop your own objectives but focus on:

• Manage and co-ordinate the Social Value Steering Group.
• Report into the Social Value Steering Group with monthly progress updates.
• Engage relevant stakeholders to collaborate and co-design the new policy ensuring operational practicality across all service areas
• Write the new Social Value Policy based on robust evidence & current thinking and aligned with national Social Value Models and local priorities.
• Embed prevention principles and social value consistently across the Council driving the improvement project forward and enabling longterm adoption.
• Put in place clear mechanisms and support to ensure social value is generated monitored delivered and reported including KPIs tracking tools and reporting frameworks.
• Ensure a timely approval pathway for the new Social Value Policy through officer and political governance including preparation of decision papers.

• Ensure the new policy is fully implemented and ready to be mainstreamed with a clear sustainability and transition plan that supports longterm adoption.

  
  This is a public/customer-facing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

  
  

Working Pattern:

37 hours per week with flexible working options available.

What youll need to succeed:

Our ideal candidate will have good knowledge and an understanding of social value and community benefits and an understanding of public sector procurement. A proven track record of working effectively in partnership with a range of stakeholders is essential together with excellent organisational and report writing skills and the ability to navigate complex decisionmaking environments within a local authority.


Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

a competitive salary.

a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Secondments welcome - please make sure that your availability for a secondment is discussed with your line manager and confirmed in advance of applying.

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact:

Rob Buckley (he/him) Strategic Sourcing Manager
Email:
Call: or Click here to call me directly on MS Teams

Interviews will be at New County Hall Treyew Road Truro TR1 3AY on 30th April 2026.

Face to face attendance for interview is preferred. Interview by MS Teams will also be considered.

A short presentation will be required at interview. Details will be provided upon shortlisting.

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as Application on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.