PSO Impact Lead (Maternity Cover)

The PSO Impact Lead will focus on developing the Benefits Management approach across IUK’s Growth Sector and Innovation As A Service (IAAS) Teams. The role is responsible for ensuring this approach fits within IUK frameworks and aligns with the broader UKRI and DBIST approaches. The role is essential to enabling Innovate UK to understand the real-time benefits of the programmes of work it is delivering, ensuring that there is a consistent approach adopted across the teams. As such, the role holder will have significant programme benefits experience.

The Impact Lead will build and maintain key relationships across Innovate UK and UKRI. They will work closely with Growth Sector and IAAS Portfolio Managers and Programme Teams to support the adoption of coherent and consistent benefits management practice, which the Impact Lead will deliver and champion in collaboration with the IUK Impact Group.

The Impact Lead will be a core member of the Business Case Oversight Team. They will act as a business partner to teams developing Business Cases, providing guidance and support as well as liaising with UKRI and DBIST colleagues in relation to the assurance and approvals processes.

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

This is not an exhaustive list and you might be encouraged to undertake any other duties across the wider directorate, commensurate with the Band and level of responsibility of this post, for which the post holder has the key experience and/or training.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

1st interview incl presentation.

Interviews will either take place remotely via Teams or in person face to face.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.