Senior Impact Manager

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The Impact manager provides expertise in impact management and evaluation to support the work of the Foundation. Based within the global safety Evidence and Insight Centre, this new role is being established to help build, strengthen and develop our impact capability and capacity. You will play a key role in helping us to better understand, learn and improve how our activities collectively contribute to our mission of making the world safer.

The role will lead activities to promote, develop and embed better practice of impact planning, monitoring and evaluation across the Foundation, and will support the planning and implementation of, and learning from, evaluations across our work. The post holder will also make a broader contribution to the Evidence and Insight Centre and across the Foundation’s wider programmes, including developing and managing grants.

Working across the Foundation’s teams, the Impact manager will build strong working relationships with internal colleagues, external experts in impact evaluation, and grant holders undertaking commissioned work

You will

• Support a wide range of mechanisms for the generation of impact – for example through grant making, direct charitable activity and the work of our trading arm, Lloyd’s Register Group
• Manage a programme of work to evaluate the impact of the Foundation through different mechanisms and on a range of different levels
• Develop and nurture standardised approaches to impact that can be deployed across the Foundation through continued development of the Foundation’s impact policy and guidance
• Support the consideration of impact through the end to end process of grant making, working with Foundation staff and external organisations
• Support the development of grant proposals including logic models that demonstrate route to impact, and relevant and proportional impact metrics that can be used to evidence impact
• Ensure grant budgets include adequate provision for activities that convert knowledge into impact
• Build on existing internal impact expertise across the Foundation, and establish learning approaches using both internal and external expertise to support continuous improvement and encourage and embed better impact practice
• Manage a strategic portfolio of impact evaluation activities, which may initially be delivered in conjunction with an external consultant, and operationally manage individual projects
• Successfully deliver assigned projects as measured by scope, time-scale, budget and quality of delivery in accordance with the appropriate delivery framework
• Prepare all project management documentation including but not limited to: project briefs, project reports, key deliverables against requirements, risk and issue registers, escalation reports, project board presentations, and project minutes and actions
• Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of projects
• Create and execute viable project plans with clear stages and gateways that will be subject to continuous review
• Manage changes to project scopes, plans and resources using appropriate verification techniques
• Proactively manage financial plans to support project delivery, including regular financial reporting of spend against budget
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
• Communicate progress and plans to Foundation staff in presentations and written summaries
• Build and manage relationships with stakeholders
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Monitor plans, manage risks and mitigations and escalate any project matters as required and through the appropriate channels
• Contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement by conducting project closure and lessons learned reviews

To be considered

• Proven experience as an Impact manager, working with a wide range of different impacts
• Experience of research management
• Knowledge and experience of applying evaluation techniques and methodologies, and ‘research on research ‘
• Expertise in the development of impact logic models, and metrics to support impact evaluation
• Expertise in commissioning external evaluations, and embedding arising learning
• Experience delivering training on impact management and evaluation
• Project management qualification
• Experience and knowledge of project management techniques, processes, principles and methodologies
• Demonstrable experience of using evaluation and learning to drive culture change
• Experience building relationships with internal staff and external stakeholders
• Proven track record of successful management of stakeholders and ability to negotiate and influence at all levels (internal and external)
• Experience in the safety or engineering sector, or working in an organisation focused on evidence-based practice (desirable)
• Strong interpersonal, relationship building and networking skills with an ability to collaborate with teams, contractors and stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to distil complex and technical information into plain English
• Effective oral and written communication skills with the ability to write clear and concise briefs, research reports and summaries
• Proactive, creative and self-starting nature
• Strong organisation skills with the ability to work to deadlines and manage multiple projects with conflicting priorities

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