Social Value Delivery and Resourcing

Deliver on your Social Value commitments
with confidence

Once the bid has been won, so starts delivering the social value promised. Too often, internal departments are not clear on what they need to do to deliver on these social value commitments, or they may lack capacity and skills internally to give social value the resource it requires to be delivered well. If unresolved, this can present significant legal, financial and reputational risk for your organisation.

Whether you need hands-on support; strategic guidance or mentoring for your staff, Samtaler has you covered.

We can offer you a flexible, ad-hoc, expert social value resource for when you really need support. We can help you by:

We can help you by:

  • Providing you with a dedicated specialist Social Value expert to help you deliver your commitments.

  • Developing Social Value implementation roadmaps, supporting lines of business, monitoring the contract commitments of your suppliers, and collaborating with your delivery partners to ensure execution of your activity as promised.

  • Supporting recruitment of an internal resource: developing job descriptions for Social Value personnel, reviewing applications and supporting with interviews.

  • Holding the fort: we can plug the resource gap whilst you recruit, acting as your Social Value Manager, and support you in the onboarding/transition phase of your social value personnel.

  • We can also work with you long-term, appointing one of our Specialists to support you over an agreed duration and programme for activity depending on your needs.

A business team struggling with paperwork

The problem(s):

  • Lack of capacity for people in the business to deliver SV activity and implement strategy - SV doesn’t always sit as an established function within organisations and the people responsible for it often have to spin other plates (e.g. business development/bid writing, sustainability, marketing/comms).

  • Lack of skills internally to oversee and implement SV: it’s a competitive market – people with skills and understanding required (particularly for senior positions) are few and far between, recruitment can take a while.

  • You may be seeing an increasing demand for social value delivery, but the organisation does not have a budget or commercial requirement to justify hiring for an in-house role.

Testimonials

  • “What an incredible organisation Samtaler is! We have recently developed our Social Value Action Plan and the resources on the website were instrumental in being able to get our heads around how to structure the plan and what we should include. Further to this, we recently had to submit a tender response on Social Value and the guidance and support Nic and Louise at Samtaler gave was phenomenal! We cannot thank them enough for everything! If you're an organisation developing a Social Value Action Plan or a tender response, you definitely want (or need) Samtaler working with you.”

  • “Many thanks to the Samtaler team for making the whole experience a delight from end to end. We feel much more confident going forward about our own capabilities and the areas that need some attention. Your enthusiasm, professionalism and unwavering support thought-out has been a godsend. Survey complete 5* would definitely recommend!”

  • “Just to say again what a pleasure it was working with you. The session was very well received from the group I was sitting within – very helpful content and well delivered. Thanks so much for working with us to get it right, and for the huge efforts made in producing the guide, which has come out fantastic.”

  • “You've really elevated our social value offering and taken it to a whole new level”

  • “Your work has totally transformed the way we have been thinking about [social value]…It’s a complete step change for us in the UK and abroad. A lot will happen due to your work and input - that is because you elegantly and carefully helped us prepare for a chance approach and gave us one we could deliver.”

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