Insight Manager

We are currently recruiting for a full time Insight Manager on a permanent contract based in any of the Heritage Fund's offices in the UK, except London (Hybrid Working).

The primary purpose of this post is to be a catalyst for transformative change within the heritage sector, driving a culture of continuous learning and collaboration. Your role is pivotal in managing our evaluation and research portfolio, ensuring that our monitoring and evaluation processes meet the needs of grantees, staff, and the wider heritage community.

You will lead strategic research and impact evaluations of our open programmes, commission thematic studies, and foster a learning environment where insights are shared and applied to inform strategy, policy, and business delivery. By forming strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders you will build networks for knowledge exchange and sharing best practice.

In this role, you will manage budgets and consultants, ensuring best value and high-quality outcomes. You will advocate for our insight and evaluation work, sharing learning across the organisation, as well as externally through speaking events, building networks and developing a range of outputs.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about applied evidence and can tell compelling stories through research and evaluation. You will maximise the benefits of evaluation, continuously improving our work while maintaining and refining existing systems.

If you are excited about helping ensure that heritage is inclusive and accessible to everyone, for now and future generations, then we want to hear from you.

Applications close on 29 September 2024.
Interviews are expected to take place on 16 October 2024.

Our Values

Our Values and Behaviours sit at the heart of our work and are central to how we recruit. How you demonstrate our Values is just as important to us as your skills and experience.

Inclusive of all aspects of heritage, people and communities
Ambitious for our people, communities and heritage
Collaborative by working and learning together
Trusted for our integrity, expertise and judgement

Flexible Working

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has offices all over the UK and we champion a flexible approach to working where this supports our business needs. We have formally adopted a hybrid working approach. This means that most employees will work from their contracted Heritage Fund office twice a week at minimum. Time spent on site visits to projects or other meetings based at another Heritage Fund or external office are counted as part of those two days. The other days in the week employees may work from home.

Disability Confident
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The National Lottery Heritage Fund

As the largest funder for the UK's heritage, our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.

We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to past.

Our mission is to use our expertise to support and champion the UK's heritage and demonstrate the transformative potential of National Lottery funding through delivering our new strategy Heritage 2033. We ensure that money from the National Lottery makes a decisive difference for people, places and communities.