Head of Strategic Planning

5 days ago

England, UK, United Kingdom DiverseJobsMatter Full time

We’re recruiting for a Head of Strategic Analysis in our newly formed Evidence and Impact team. You will help us build stronger insight into the challenges faced by communities across the UK and the case for action in each of our four mission areas. You will connect this evidence about the external environment in which we operate and the future trends for society and the economy to our ongoing performance monitoring and KPIs. You will lead your team’s work to communicate evidence in a compelling and engaging way to a wide range of audiences. The strategic analysis and research your team delivers will support advocacy and influencing at both a UK-wide and country portfolio level.

Ultimately your work will ensure that we have the evidence we need to deliver the full impact and benefit of ‘It starts with Community’ and that we have the processes in place to adapt and learn, including in preparing the insight that we need to set strategy beyond 2030.

We’re looking for a strategic thinker who can connect the evidence and insight our team creates to the decisions at hand at all levels of our organisation. This means you must be able to demonstrate experience of presenting insight to senior stakeholders at Executive and Board level in a way that promotes evidence-led strategy and policy.

We aim to ‘lead the agenda’ with insight, so you will have strong experience of leading teams to develop clear and purposeful insight products for use in strategic communications and advocacy. Your people management skills will be crucial to this role as you lead the 5-strong Strategic Analysis team, developing a supportive culture of high-performance. You will forge strong partnerships with a wide range of colleagues in the UK-wide Evidence and Impact function and play a key role in our leadership team as we strive for ‘One Fund’ ways of working.

This role can be based in any of our offices. Some travel is expected to attend leadership meetings and connect with colleagues who are based in different locations of the country.

Interview Date: w/c 3rd February

Location: UK - We have a hybrid approach to working, work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidate. The role can be based at any of our UK offices, these are Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Newcastle and Newtown.

If you would like an informal conversation about the role specifically, please contact: Tom Walters

On application, please align your supporting statement to the criteria below

Essential criteria

  • Educated to undergraduate level, or equivalent level of experience in a relevant discipline such as quantitative or qualitative methods, evidence synthesis or trends analysis.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with different audiences.
  • Experience of working with multiple stakeholders (including at Board level), often with competing priorities, to gain agreement.
  • Proven experience in driving insight to action and in communicating compelling evidence to senior stakeholders, particularly at Executive and Board level.
  • Proven experience of delivering impactful evidence at different stages of the strategy cycle, including one or more of the following: consultation, horizon scanning, performance and KPI reporting and policy analysis

Desirable criteria

  • Educated to undergraduate level, or equivalent level of experience in a relevant discipline.
  • Familiarity with functional standards for analysis and in how they apply to the work of multi-disciplinary teams.

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