Benefits Impact Lead (Maternity Cover)

Nerc - The Natural Environment Research Council; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Innovate UK in Swindon is seeking a PSO Impact Lead (Maternity cover) to develop and drive Benefits Management across Growth Sectors and IAAS, reporting to the Portfolio Manager PMO. Hybrid working is available with a UKRI site presence as needed.

The role requires extensive experience in benefits realisation, portfolio management, and building strong internal/external relationships, supporting business case work and governance processes.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering benefits realisation planning and execution in large portfolios or cross-council programmes.
• Experience in data management—identification, gathering and analysis of data.
• Experience in programme management in complex multi-organisation environments.
• Ability to build rapid, robust relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience developing and delivering approaches to understanding and measuring benefits where not previously done.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and consistent implementation of benefits management across Growth Sectors and IAAS.
• Support Growth Sector and IAAS teams to take clear ownership of benefits.
• 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 review and scrutiny of ISCF Fund-Level Value for Money Evaluation.
• Assist and support the Impact Management Team in analysis and reporting of benefits and impact data.
• Provide ad-hoc benefits management support as requested within Innovate UK and UKRI.
• Develop strong working relationships with PPM professionals across IUK and UKRI.
• Lead the Impact and Performance Manager Community of Practice, or its successor.
• Support the PSO Core Team to develop core PPM practices and processes across Growth Sectors and IAAS.

Skills

Benefits practitioner

MSP Practitioner

Benefits realisation

Data management

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Benefits measurement

Job description

Innovate UK in Swindon is seeking a PSO Impact Lead (Maternity cover) to develop and drive Benefits Management across Growth Sectors and IAAS, reporting to the Portfolio Manager PMO. Hybrid working is available with a UKRI site presence as needed.

The role requires extensive experience in benefits realisation, portfolio management, and building strong internal/external relationships, supporting business case work and governance processes.