Community Benefits Lead

Community Benefits Lead
Scottish Power, St Vincent Street, Glasgow. G2 5AD
FTC (6 Months) - Potential for permanent role
Role Purpose:
As Community Benefits Lead, you will play a key role in supporting the design, delivery and continuous improvement of SP Energy Networks' Community Benefit programme.
You will work across project teams, stakeholders and delivery partners to ensure community benefit funding is effectively managed, transparent and aligned to programme objectives. Alongside core programme responsibilities, the role will have a strong focus on data management, digital tools and mapping outputs, ensuring that community benefit information is robust, accessible and supports informed decision-making and meaningful stakeholder engagement.
Key Accountabilities:
- Support the delivery and continuous improvement of SP Energy Networks' Community Benefit programme, ensuring project, fund and engagement data is accurately captured, maintained, and effectively used to inform decision-making and stakeholder engagement.
- Maintain the Project Asset & Engagement Tracker as the centralised "single source of truth" for all eligible transmission projects and associated community benefit activity, ensuring alignment with programme requirements and funding eligibility criteria.
- Lead the ongoing management, update and quality assurance of programme data, ensuring accuracy of project milestones, asset information, funding status, and stakeholder engagement records.
- Work closely with Project Managers and internal teams to gather, verify and maintain project and community benefit data, ensuring consistency across systems (including Power BI, ProjectWise, and ACC) and supporting transparent programme delivery.
- Identify and implement continuous improvements to data structures, processes and tools, enhancing efficiency, reducing duplication and enabling scalable management of community benefit information
- Develop and maintain advanced Excel-based trackers and datasets, using structured data models, validation techniques and automation to support robust programme tracking and reporting.
- Prepare and manage datasets to support reporting, funding insights, mapping outputs and stakeholder communications, ensuring data is accessible and actionable.
- Support the maintenance and development of GIS mapping outputs (ESRI / ArcGIS Online), ensuring community benefit funds, project locations and eligibility areas are accurately represented and up to date.
- Assist in the development and refinement of interactive maps and dashboards, enhancing how communities and stakeholders understand fund availability and project impacts.
- Support the development and maintenance of digital interfaces and web-based tools, including community benefit webpages and interactive mapping tools.
- Work with web and digital teams to translate programme and data requirements into clear specifications, supporting the integration of data-driven tools into stakeholder-facing platforms.
- Support the ongoing improvement of digital tools and stakeholder interfaces, helping to ensure community benefit information is clear, user-friendly and aligned with stakeholder needs.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
Essential
- Experience in programme or project coordination, ideally within infrastructure, utilities, or community-focused initiatives
- Advanced Excel capability, including working with complex datasets, structured data models and data validation techniques
- Experience in data management, quality assurance, and continuous improvement of systems and processes
- Ability to interpret and translate technical or project data into clear, actionable outputs
- Experience supporting or working with digital tools, systems, or web-based content
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- High level of organisation and attention to detail
Desirable
- Experience working with community benefit funding, stakeholder programmes, or socio-economic initiatives
- Familiarity with GIS platforms (e.g. ArcGIS / ESRI) or spatial data
- Experience with Power BI or similar data visualisation tools
- Exposure to interactive digital tools or data-driven web interfaces
- Experience working within regulated or infrastructure environments
What You'll Bring:
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach with a strong attention to detail
- Confidence working across data, systems and stakeholder environments
- A continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to enhance processes and tools
- A strong commitment to delivering positive outcomes for communities

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