Impact & Learning Manager, Research

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Your Responsibilities
What you’ll do

You will lead research impact and learning projects and activities for Southampton’s university-hospital research partnership.

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Leading impact definition and evaluation projects, within and across research units, groups and studies
• Leading on impact capture systems, processes and reporting to funders and stakeholders
• Developing and embedding policies for building continuously improving, impact-led research practice through training, resources, mentoring and support programmes
• Driving a culture of impact- and needs-led research prioritisation, design and delivery across all our, and our partners work

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with SCREI colleagues, senior researchers, external partners and suppliers
• Make sure expert input, appropriate evaluation and learning resources and effective use of wider SCREI teams is applied across the research cycle and portfolio in support of impact objectives
• Work across health subjects and disease areas to ensure a focus on the needs of people with a stake in our work
• Be responsible for liaising with research directors, leads and teams to interpret and effectively support strategic and operational needs

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who can drive projects and deliver positive, quality support. You’ll be creative, with a strong background in advancing change through impact frameworks, evaluation and learning.  We need your evaluation insight, and focus on ultimate needs, to grow awareness and relationships across our workforce, collaborators and different organisations.

We’re looking for you to create the conditions for a culture focussed on people’s real needs, on continually understanding the impact our work has, and open to using and sharing learning to improve research.

Familiarity with the impact agenda and current challenges in the NHS R&D, National Institute for Health and Care Research and/or clinical academic environment is desirable. However, what you’ll need above all is initiative, a commitment to understanding impact and demonstrable ability in building the means for gaining that understanding,

Additional information

Interviews will be held on Monday 7th November 2022.

Should you have any queries, please use the contact details below to get in touch.