PSO Impact Lead (Maternity Cover)

Job summary

The PSO Impact Lead will focus on developing the Benefits Management approach across IUK’s Growth Sector and Innovation As A Service (IAAS) Teams. The role is responsible for ensuring this approach fits within IUK frameworks and aligns with the broader UKRI and DBIST approaches. The role is essential to enabling Innovate UK to understand the real-time benefits of the programmes of work it is delivering, ensuring that there is a consistent approach adopted across the teams. As such, the role holder will have significant programme benefits experience.

The Impact Lead will build and maintain key relationships across Innovate UK and UKRI. They will work closely with Growth Sector and IAAS Portfolio Managers and Programme Teams to support the adoption of coherent and consistent benefits management practice, which the Impact Lead will deliver and champion in collaboration with the IUK Impact Group.

The Impact Lead will be a core member of the Business Case Oversight Team. They will act as a business partner to teams developing Business Cases, providing guidance and support as well as liaising with UKRI and DBIST colleagues in relation to the assurance and approvals processes.

Job description

• Lead the development and consistent implementation of benefits management practice across the Growth Sectors and IAAS.
• Support Growth Sector and IAAS teams to take clear ownership of benefits.
• Support activity to develop real-time tracking for IUK.
• Collaborate with the IUK Strategy teams to update and publish relevant IUK Frameworks.
• Develop and maintain key stakeholder relationships across Innovate UK and UKRI.
• Support the delivery of Business Cases through membership of the Business Case Oversight Team.
• Support the review and scrutiny of the ISCF Fund-Level Value for Money Evaluation.
• Assist and support the Impact Management Team in the development of analysis and reporting of benefits and impact data.
• Provide ad-hoc benefits management support as requested and agreed within Innovate UK and across UKRI.
• Develop strong working relationships/networks with PPM professionals across IUK and UKRI, including the Project Profession and Benefits Management SIG.
• Lead the Impact and Performance Manager Community of Practice, or its successor.
• Support the PSO Core Team to develop core PPM practices and processes, and with the consistent adoption of these practices and processes across the Growth Sectors and IAAS.

This is not an exhaustive list and you might be encouraged to undertake any other duties across the wider directorate, commensurate with the Band and level of responsibility of this post, for which the post holder has the key experience and/or training.

Person specification

(S) – Assessed at shortlisting

(I) – Assessed at interview

(S&I) – Assessed at both shortlisting and interview

Person Specification:

Experience & Qualifications:

Essential –

• Managing Benefits Practitioner (S).
• Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner or working towards (S).
• Degree level or relevant equivalent qualification or previous relevant experience (S).
• Significant experience of delivering benefits realisation planning and execution – ideally within a large and/or complex portfolio or cross-Council programmes (S&I).
• Significant experience of data management – identification, gathering and analysis of data (S&I).
• Significant experience of programme management, working in a complex multi-organisation environment with varying cultures (S&I)
• Experience of working on a range of projects/programmes concurrently (S&I).
• Experience of building rapid and robust relationships with key internal and external stakeholders (S&I).
• Experience of developing and delivering approaches to understanding and measuring benefits where this has not previously been done (S&I).

Competencies:

All team members demonstrate compatibility with and capability against our Core Competencies such as:

Thinking and Problem Solving – Stakeholder management – Communication skills – Influencing – Self-awareness/self-management – Strategic awareness – Working with others– Project management

Some of the above competencies will be assessed at interview stage, in addition to the criteria’s listed in the person specification.

Travel Requirements:

Swindon-based: There may be occasional requirement for national travel.

Immigration:

Please note, if you will require sponsorship to work in the UK, as part of your sponsorship application, you and any dependants travelling with you, will be required to pay costs directly to The Home Office for the application before you start your role with us. UKRI is normally able to reimburse some, or all of these fees after you have become an employee and this can be discussed with the Hiring Manager. For more information, please visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/how-much-it-costs or contact Recruitment@ukri.org.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £58,589, Innovate UK contributes £16,973 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

1st interview incl presentation.

Interviews will either take place remotely via Teams or in person face to face.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a standard (or equivalent) criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitment Team
• Email : recruitment@ukri.org

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@ukri.org