Social Impact Lead

Job Title:                     Social Impact Lead

Location:                     Moor Row, Cumbria + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation:            Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF74873

Make a Positive Difference in Communities While Supporting Projects That Matter

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Social Impact Lead at our Moor Row, Cumbria site.

The role

As a Social Impact Lead, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering meaningful social impact initiatives that support our business objectives, strengthen community partnerships and enhance our reputation across the region.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading the design and delivery of project-specific Social Impact Plans and associated campaigns aligned to regional priorities.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with charities, voluntary organisations, community groups and other key stakeholders.
• Providing expert advice and support on stakeholder engagement and social impact initiatives across the business.
• Monitoring, measuring and reporting social value activities and key performance indicators to demonstrate impact.
• Delivering effective communications through newsletters, social media, events and other engagement channels in collaboration with communications colleagues.

This role is 37 hours per week based in Moor Row, Cumbria. Flexible working patterns are available, and you will manage your diary in line with stakeholder engagement activities and external visits.

Essential experience of the Social Impact Lead:

• Demonstrated experience working within a social impact, communications, public relations, media or marketing environment.
• Experience of building productive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Knowledge of social impact metrics and measuring social value outcomes.
• Experience using a variety of multimedia and communications tools.
• Understanding of social impact priorities and community needs within West Cumbria.

Qualifications for the Social Impact Lead:

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date:   31/07/2026

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