Senior Impact Engagement Manager

NERC: Natural Environment Research Council; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 46,000; Full time

Job summary

The NERC is seeking a Senior Impact Engagement Manager to enhance communication and engagement with key stakeholders. The role focuses on maximizing the impact of environmental science on economic growth and addressing climate change through effective evidence dissemination and relationship building.

Benefits

30 days' annual leave

Employee discounts

Employee assistance programme

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experienced in impact and engagement within the research sector.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal.
• Enthusiastic self-starter with effective problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional impact and engagement expertise.
• Build relationships to amplify NERC's impact evidence.
• Translate complex information into tailored formats for diverse audiences.

Skills

Communication

Relationship Building

Engagement Influence

Problem Solving

Time Management

IT Proficiency

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Senior Impact Engagement Manager

Salary: £45,272 per annum (dependent on skills and experience).

Band: UKRI E

Team: Impact and Outcomes

Hours: Full time or Part time (minimum 30 hours per week)

Contract Type: Open Ended.

Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire - Opportunity for hybrid work arrangements.

Closing Date: 1st July 2025

We are looking for an experienced impact and engagement professional to help us land compelling impact evidence with key audiences.

The UK’s world-leading environmental science is central to enabling the UK to grasp green growth opportunities and to address global challenges such as climate change. Effectively communicating to key stakeholders how environmental science makes a difference to the economy and our lives will help us to make the case for funding for environmental science, build partnerships to deliver research and impact, report on performance and celebrate success.

NERC has an established team skilled in producing impact evidence, and an extensive database of existing evidence. This newe role will capitalise on these opportunities, bringing professional impact engagement expertise to enable us to land the evidence more effectively with target audiences in UKRI, government and wider partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional impact and engagement expertise.
• Build strong internal and external relationships that create opportunities for amplifying NERC’s impact evidence amongst key stakeholders.
• Act as a ‘translator’, taking complex evidence and reshaping it into compelling formats (e.g. narratives, briefings, presentations) suitably tailored for different audience needs.
• Identify what works for landing compelling evidence with key audiences to help to steer the team’s evidence work.
• Build productive relationships with NERC colleagues who engage stakeholders to understand opportunities and challenges, and to build confidence for communicating NERC’s impact.
• Build productive relationships with UKRI and external communications and engagement colleagues to influence and leverage wider opportunities for landing evidence.
• Engage with NERC-funded research centres to strengthen their evidence pipelines and leverage their engagement opportunities.
• Keep up to date with best practice in communicating impact evidence.
• Support other NERC Head Office priorities commensurate with the grade when needed.

Person Specification

• Experienced in impact and engagement within the research sector or comparable environment.
• Experienced in engaging and influencing senior stakeholders in government, business or the third sector through multiple channels.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and persuasively, both written and verbal, appropriate to audiences.
• Proven ability to synthesise and summarise complex information for non-expert audiences.
• Enthusiastic self-starter able to solve problems and work independently as well as in a team.
• Effective administration, prioritisation and time management skills.
• Proficiency in IT.

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. We are committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning!

A list of benefits below:

• 30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent).
• Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities.
• Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice.
• Flexible working options.

Plus many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!

UKRI is an Equal Opportunity & Disability Confident Employer.

Please apply online, if you experience any issue applying, please contact [e-mail]

How to apply:

For full details, please visit our careers site. Please submit an application including your CV and a Cover Letter that showcases how your skills and experience align to the requirements of the role.

A well thought through application providing evidence and examples of how you meet the advertised essential and desirable criteria for the post will be considered far more favourably than a generic covering letter and CV.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  General Business

• Industries

  Research

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