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Head of Impact and Learning

The purpose of the role is to guide and be responsible for the Trust’s monitoring, evaluation and learning activities, working closely with the Chief Executive and Head of Programmes. The Head of Impact and Learning will be a core member of the Trust’s management team and attend Board meetings where appropriate.

The duties will include strengthening existing evaluation and learning frameworks and recommending changes as we implement new programmes.

The role will be integral in evaluating progress of the Trust’s strategy and sharing learning across the Trust’s funding portfolio and with external partners. The role will also be responsible for co-production activities and facilitating ‘Funder Plus’ practical support for the Trust’s grant partners. As the role and our strategy develops, a key element will be identifying workable programme models that have the potential to be scaled or adopted elsewhere to reduce gendered poverty.

You will be joining us at an exciting time in our 135-year history. Over the last five years we have awarded almost £11 million and tripled our grant expenditure from £1.4m in 2019 to £4.5m in 2020. We have supported over 40,000 women and over the next three years the Board have agreed to make additional funds available from our investments to meet demand and deliver our new 2022-2024 Strategic Plan.

Head of Impact and Learning Responsibilities:

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Develop and operationalise a monitoring and evaluation framework
• Develop and strengthen the Trust’s approach to sharing learning and be responsible for the Trust’s data collection and analysis
• Commission research as agreed on gendered poverty, economic inequality
• Work with the Chief Executive, Head of Programmes and Operations Manager to identify emerging trends and innovative approaches in grant-making
• Support our delivery partners and Smallwood Programmes team
• Support a new place-based fund, coordinating learning and identifying workable models

Learning and Communication
• Guide a process of internal learning to ensure lessons are fed back into programme development
• Attendance at Board meetings to present learning and evaluation reports
• Relationship building with key external stakeholders
• Work with the Head of Programmes events
• Oversee the Trust’s communications function
• Work with colleagues to develop and implement fundraising

Core principles and innovation
• Integrate existing good practice, and emerging good practice, across our grant-making programmes to ensure a strong learning approach
• Support the implementation of the Trust’s EDI Plan

Head of Impact and Learning Requirements:

Experience
• Experience of communicating impact and learning to internal and external audiences
• Experience of co-production and working with people with lived experience
• Experience of working within a grant-making organisation
• Experience of working collaboratively with colleagues to implement new initiatives and working with senior leadership teams and Boards/trustees
• Experience of running and presenting at webinars and workshops

Skills & Knowledge
• Research, analytical and report writing skills
• Communication and influencing skills to support our work with external partners
• The ability to establish, build and maintain a wide and effective network of external relationships to maximise the Trust’s impact
• Competent with Microsoft Office, databases, spreadsheets and writing reports
• Technical knowledge and practical experience of qualitative and quantitative monitoring
• Understanding of gendered poverty in the UK and the structural problems that persist
• Knowledge of grant-making and the grant-making sector
• Knowledge of the commissioning process
• An understanding of the value of joint ventures, partnerships and collaboration and willingness to contribute and compromise, while challenging assumptions if appropriate

Salary: £43,000 to £45,000 per annum (pro rata as appropriate)
Hours: Either part-time with a min. of 28 hours or full time of 35 hours
Contract: Permanent
Location: Home working with regular in-person meetings
Benefits: Pro rata 25 days per annum plus public holidays Pension: 10% contribution from the Trust plus additional voluntary contribution from the employee, Flexible working, access to Employee Assistance Programme

This role reports to: Chief Executive, working closely with the Finance Director
Closing: 11:59pm, 27th Feb 2022

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Name:Smallwood Trust

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