DescriptionJob Title: Impact Manager (FTC)
Location: Cambridge, UK or remote with regular travel to Cambridge
Salary: £44,000 – £48,000 p.a. full-time equivalent, dependent on experience
Basis: Fixed-term contract (6 months, with possibility of 3 month extension); full-time, part-time or flexible (minimum 0.6 FTE/3 days per week)
Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK
The role
We see impact as central to everything we do and put a lot of effort into understanding the impact our work has on young people. We use data insights, evaluation, and research to continuously improve our educational products and programmes, and to communicate about them with volunteers, educators, supporters, and partners.
We are now recruiting an Impact Manager to join our Impact team and help us reach our ambitious goals to measure and enhance the impact of our work.
You will partner with product teams to establish clear reach and impact goals for our educational products and programmes delivered in a range of markets across the globe. You will work with the team to ensure we have reliable and accessible data that is effectively analysed and used to inform decisions about what we can do better. You will build the capacity of the team in impact and evaluation skills and tools, and help to embed a focus on impact.
Reporting to the Head of Impact, you will ensure that key impact findings and insights on our educational products are being used to inform the direction of future work, and are feeding into management information and reporting. You will also work with the fundraising and communications teams to effectively communicate the impact we are achieving to external stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will be someone who is committed to developing an impact culture and evidence-based decisions to help improve the impact we have on young people. You will be inquiring and focused, and confident with data analysis and measurement. You will have strong impact and evaluation skills, and the ability to make sense of ambiguity and distill data into actionable insights. We want to be a leader in understanding and improving our impact, and you will share that drive.
We strive to make the Foundation a place where talented people who care about our mission can do the best work of their careers. We have a flexible and collaborative approach to all aspects of our work. If you’re the right person for the job, we’ll make it work for you, and you can be confident that you’ll be working with an exceptional team.
Responsibilities
- Work with colleagues to establish simple, measurable reach and impact goals across our portfolio of educational products and programmes, such as clubs and our competitions and showcase events
- Work with colleagues to ensure we have reliable, accessible data that enables us to quickly and easily measure reach and impact and make decisions about our educational products and programmes
- Conduct analysis of collected data to understand the impact we are having and how we can improve our work
- Coach colleagues in data collection and analysis skills and tools
- Identify opportunities to improve the use of quantitative and qualitative data in management decision-making and reporting
- Communicate findings from impact analysis to product teams and senior management, identifying recommendations and influencing the direction of future work
- Work with colleagues to communicate our impact externally with our communities and the wider public
- Support and conduct impact evaluations and other projects as required
Experience and personal attributes
We recognise that everyone has the potential for growth, and we welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they have some, but not all, of the experience and personal attributes listed here.
- A degree or Masters-level qualification in a relevant field
- Experience measuring the impact of social or educational programmes, ideally with schools or in teaching- and learning-related fields
- Excellent data management skills and a track record in using quantitative and qualitative data to understand the impact of activities or projects
- Outstanding analysis and statistical skills, and the ability to derive clear insights from complex data
- Experience of taking a lead on projects and moving them through to completion
- Exceptional collaborative working skills, as well as the capacity to work across multiple teams and take into account different approaches and priorities
- Significant experience of using spreadsheets and other data analysis software
- Excellent writing and presentation skills, including experience of external communications (such as blogs or impact reports)
- Experience of using online tools such as Google Apps (Drive, Gmail, etc.)
About us
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based educational charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. You can read more about us on our careers page.
Established in 2008 and first known for our product — the wildly successful Raspberry Pi computer — the Foundation has developed education programmes, learning experiences, and products that are helping millions of young people learn vital new knowledge and skills
Through Code Club, we support the world’s largest network of free informal computing clubs for young people. Tens of thousands of educators have taken our online courses, and millions of people use our free online learning resources. To deepen our understanding of how young people learn about computing and how to create with digital technologies, we conduct academic research, and we use that knowledge to increase the impact of our work and advance the field of computing education.
Across all of our work, we work hard to engage young people who come from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the field of computing or who experience educational disadvantage. We work all over the world, with teams based in the UK, Ireland, North America, and India, and partnerships with mission-aligned organisations in over 40 countries.
We are at the forefront of the global movement to help young people learn about computing and digital making. You can read more about our mission, values, and goals in our Annual Review 2023 and our Strategy 2022–2025.
Benefits
In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a range of benefits for all of our colleagues, including:
- 25 days’ annual leave initially, growing to 30 days after five years service
- Company-wide close down for 3 days at the end of the year
- Generous company pension scheme with 8% employer and 4% employee contributions
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance and long-term illness insurance policy
- Investment in professional development and learning
- Flexible work hours as needed, to fit around childcare or other commitments
- Generous family leave policy
- Cycle-to-work scheme and season ticket loan
Timetable for applications
Closing date: 3 February 2025, 9.00am GMT
Phone screen: Week commencing 3 February 2025
First-round interview: Week commencing 10 February 2025
Second-round interview: Week commencing 10 February 2025
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. If successful in the selection process, you will be required to undergo a background check to confirm that you are a suitable person to work with children. Further background checks will be made at regular intervals thereafter.
