Impact Manager - London Impact Manager - London

This role supports the vision to enable even more effective and sustainable positive change for disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. By supporting the Head of Impact - South, the Impact Manager will provide leadership, management and support for the grant-making and grant management process in the London region and will play a key part in implementing the UK-wide Grants Strategy, currently in development, and supporting the annual BBC Children in Need Appeal.

• You will act as a contact point across the voluntary and community sector and for key stakeholders throughout the BBC, across the BBC Children in Need fundraising community and beyond.
• You will also take responsibility for monitoring and reporting of grant management information and escalating issues to the Head of Impact for the South region as appropriate. This includes escalating risks to the Head of Impact - South as appropriate.
• You will also be responsible for line-managing the London team's Impact Officers, chairing and facilitating grant decision-making meetings and managing a geographical area and grant portfolio, working with stakeholders to facilitate the development and delivery of solutions for change for children and young people.
• You will be expected to travel within the London region on a regular basis in order to have face to face time with the team, to attend project visits and meet with key stakeholders in the region
• You will be expected to play a key role in contributing to the development and implementation of the grant making strategy
  
  Substantial evidence of working with the voluntary sector, preferably in the grant-making and children and young people spheres.
• Experience of managing grant-making or grant management processes.
• Line-management experience.
• Excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate appropriately, in writing or verbally, with people of all types and at all levels.
• Ability to organise a large workload, prioritising appropriately, with the ability to work quickly but calmly to tight deadlines.
• Able to work flexibly, positively and autonomously in a small and often remotely located team.
A high level of personal resilience is required to be successful in this hugely rewarding position where you give back to the community and change the lives of children and young people across the UK. You will be supported by a friendly team environment. The role will be CPF mapped to Senior Impact Officer.

BBC Children in Need exists to make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK. BBC Children in Need is currently looking for a Continuing Impact Manager for the London region. This role will support the Head of Impact - South with all aspects of the team's work. It will also autonomously line-manage Impact Officers, playing an important role in implementing the Charity's UK-wide Grants Strategy at a local level., The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Read about them here Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

Salary: £31,600 - £40,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. London Weighting may be applicable. We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
• Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.