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1. Job Opportunity: UK Consultant

   February 27, 2023 7:39 pm Comments Off on Job Opportunity: UK Consultant

   Our UK team is looking for a Consultant to deliver consulting, coaching and training and support our amazing partners on the journey to scaling their social impact.

   About the Role

   Primarily, Consultants work in project teams led by a Senior Consultant or Managing Consultant to:

   • Contribute, through analysis and critical thinking, to shaping the strategic direction of projects and recommendations to partners
   • Prepare and facilitate sections of workshops with partners (e.g. charities, social enterprises, foundations)
   • Draft reports and presentations for partners and internal use
   • Develop financial models (you will be trained to do this!)
   • Conduct desk-based research, interviews and focus groups with partners, stakeholders and their beneficiaries
   • Coordinate project logistics

   Beyond working with our partners, there is the opportunity to contribute to internal activities such as:

   • Improving our Monitoring & Evaluation, developing our external communications or updating our methodology
   • Developing proposals for new and existing clients
   • Writing blogs or attending conferences

   Your first six months

   You will learn about our approach to working with others and creating impact at scale through team-led training, project shadowing and self-directed study.

   Within the first two weeks, you’ll be introduced to clients and begin to support internal teams to deliver consulting, coaching and training. You will work on a mix of UK- and internationally-focused projects, supporting a diverse portfolio of clients to navigate challenges on their journeys to scale.

   Staff benefits

   Like everyone else on the team, you’ll benefit from:

   • A flexible approach to working and home-working, with team members being asked to come in once a week to our London office
   • Three months of fully paid maternity leave on successful completion of probation, increasing by one month for every year of service, up to a maximum of six months
   • Three months of fully paid parental leave (i.e. for partners of birth parents), with the option to take a further nine months unpaid leave. Parental leave is also available for the new matching/placement of an adopted child
   • 25 days holiday, increasing to 27 after two years
   • A personal training budget of £2000

   Key details:

   • Salary: £30,721 – £33,166
   • Full-Time
   • Location: London (Southwark) – The post holder will be expected to spend a minimum of one day per week in the London office. There may be opportunities to travel outside of the UK for work purposes, though this is optional. We actively support flexible and home working.

   Deadline:

   • March 5th, 2023 at 23:59

   Spring Impact’s Commitment to Inclusion

   Spring Impact is an equal-opportunity employer. The impact of our work is strongest when our team has a variety of experience, expertise, and insights to draw from. We are committed to building an inclusive team and strongly encourage BIPOC, women, nonbinary people, LGBTQIA+ people, persons with disabilities, veterans, and persons from other underrepresented groups to apply. We take our responsibility to cultivate a culture of inclusion and justice at Spring Impact very seriously, and implement practices like our flexible working schedule (for those who may have caring responsibilities), de-biased hiring platform, and organization-wide involvement in DEIJ (diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice) workshops.

2. Job Opportunity: UK Training Programmes Officer

   7:23 pm Comments Off on Job Opportunity: UK Training Programmes Officer

   Our UK team is looking for a Training Programmes Officer to contribute to developing and delivering innovative learning experiences, taking our work with non-profits and foundations to the next level.

   About the Role

   The Training Programmes Officer will work closely with the Director of Capacity Building and the wider consulting team to develop and deliver Spring Impact’s digital training programmes and learning experiences. They will work closely with the programmes team to ensure programmes are impactful, valued by participants, and sustainably delivered.

   The core responsibilities of this role are:

   1) Managing the ongoing delivery of digital learning programmes, courses and products

   • Working to deliver our digital learning programmes and products from recruitment and onboarding through delivery and M&E, finding ways to iterate on and improve the entire process along the way (i.e. Getting Scale Ready, Leaders of Scale)
   • Presenting and facilitating training sessions
   • Supporting and coaching organisations to help scale their impact
   • Managing communications with participants and providing administrative course management support while working alongside team member content experts
   • Supporting the programmes team with the recruitment and selection of charities and social enterprises for new programmes

   2) Delivering impactful digital learning experiences to help mission-driven organisations scale their impact

   • Supporting the development of the digital “infrastructure” that enables great learning experiences, i.e. Learning Management Systems, CRM, collection of feedback and data and participant communication
   • Applying a human-centred approach to create courses that participants value

   3) Working in partnership to design, develop and deliver new products and programmes

   • Supporting the development of new capacity-building offers through the application of user-centred design processes
   • Contributing to the design process from insights gathered through design, testing, development and delivery
   • Working to support/enable other members of the team to take a data-driven and user-centred approach to their work

   The Training Programmes Officer will also contribute to internal work similarly to a Consultant role within the organisation, fitting with the individual’s interests and the organisational needs.

   Staff benefits

   Like everyone else on the team, you’ll benefit from:

   • A flexible approach to working and home-working, with team members being asked to come in once a week to our London office
   • Three months of fully paid maternity leave on successful completion of probation, increasing by one month for every year of service, up to a maximum of six months
   • Three months of fully paid parental leave (i.e. for partners of birth parents), with the option to take a further nine months unpaid leave. Parental leave is also available for the new matching/placement of an adopted child
   • 25 days holiday, increasing to 27 after two years
   • A personal training budget of £2000

   Key details:

   • Salary: £30,721 – £33,166
   • Full-Time
   • Location: London (Southwark) – The post holder will be expected to spend a minimum of one day per week in the London office. There may be opportunities to travel outside of the UK for work purposes, though this is optional. We actively support flexible and home working.

   Deadline:

   • March 5th, 2023 at 23:59

   Spring Impact’s Commitment to Inclusion

   Spring Impact is an equal-opportunity employer. The impact of our work is strongest when our team has a variety of experience, expertise, and insights to draw from. We are committed to building an inclusive team and strongly encourage BIPOC, women, nonbinary people, LGBTQIA+ people, persons with disabilities, veterans, and persons from other underrepresented groups to apply. We take our responsibility to cultivate a culture of inclusion and justice at Spring Impact very seriously, and implement practices like our flexible working schedule (for those who may have caring responsibilities), de-biased hiring platform, and organization-wide involvement in DEIJ (diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice) workshops.

3. Job Opportunity: UK Programmes Manager

   7:08 pm Comments Off on Job Opportunity: UK Programmes Manager

   Our UK team is looking for a Programmes Manager to play an integral role in delivering and developing Spring Impact’s programmes to support our ambitious goals.

   About the Role

   Delivering complex, multi-year programmes are at the heart of Spring Impact’s model for supporting mission-led organisations to scale their impact. With several transformative programme opportunities on the horizon, we are looking for a Programmes Manager to play an integral role in delivering and developing Spring Impact’s programmes to support our ambitious strategic goals.

   The Programmes Manager will work closely with the current Programmes Manager and Head of Programmes to deliver and innovate our programmes, taking our work with non-profits and foundations to the next level.

   The core responsibilities of this role are:

   1) Leading strands of Spring Impact’s programme delivery. This is likely to involve:

   • Leading relationships with foundations and funder partners

   • Managing the evaluation across our programmes

   • Ensuring the consultancy team have the right information, tools, mindsets and motivations to deliver on the programmes; and supporting the team’s ongoing

   • Designing and implementing an approach to communicating about our programmes in partnership with Marketing Manager. This includes considering how to share success stories through events and/or written materials and how to explain our programme work externally
   • Reporting to foundation partners, Spring Impact Board, and any other relevant stakeholders
   • Designing and facilitating cohort sessions to happen across our programme network and facilitating action learning sets across our programme network
   • Leading the recruitment and selection of programme cohorts or supporting project teams to do this in a way that builds on previous programme learning
   • Conducting systems mapping and research activities at the start of programme relationships

   2) Designing, developing and securing new programmes. This is likely to involve:

   • Designing and pitching new programmes in collaboration with the current Programmes Manager and Head of Programmes, including responsibility for the development of materials for funders and identifying strategies to involve the consultancy team in programme design

   • Leading the design and development of funder-facing communications materials to secure future programmes
   • Identifying and implementing creative ways to build the pipeline for future programmes. (This might include building partnerships with other intermediaries, delivering training and lunch & learns to potential future funders, and identifying other ways of building Spring Impact’s brand amongst foundations)

   3) Influence behaviours, norms and mindsets within the sector to facilitate successful scale within the issue areas that programmes operate

   • Gaining an in-depth understanding of the sectors in which our programmes operate, learning about which norms, practices and incentives support NGOs to scale successfully, and which inhibit successful scale within the sectors the programmes focus on

   • Building and managing strong partnerships with charitable foundations and other key stakeholders to become our allies in influencing the sector to better facilitate successful scale

   • In partnerships, devising and implementing strategies to shift behaviours, norms and mindsets (for example, convening funders, hosting webinars, presenting at or attending conferences)

   The Programmes Manager will also contribute to internal work within the organisation, fitting with the individual’s interests and organisational needs.

   Your first six months and beyond

   Within the first two to four weeks, you will learn about our methodology for creating impact at scale through team-led training, project shadowing and self-directed study.

   You’ll quickly begin supporting the current Programmes Manager and Head of Programmes to set up the upcoming programmes across various sectors and geographies, including recruiting and selecting high-potential NGOs, sourcing external expertise, and working with foundations on programme design. You will also support the coordination and management of Spring Impact’s Scale Accelerator: Women’s Empowerment, based in Southern Africa.

   Over the first few months, you will take responsibility for certain strands within the programme team’s remit. This will include leading our programmes’ influencing and advocacy strand alongside others based on experience and preferences.

   Staff benefits

   Like everyone else on the team, you’ll benefit from:

   • A flexible approach to working and home-working, with team members being asked to come in once a week to our London office
   • Three-months fully-paid maternity leave on successful completion of probation, increasing by one month for every year of service, up to a maximum of six months
   • Three-months fully-paid parental leave (i.e. for partners of birth parents), with the option to take a further nine months unpaid leave. Parental leave is also available for the new matching/placement of an adopted child
   • 25 days holiday, increasing to 27 after two years
   • A personal training budget of £2000
   • Mental health support, including access to therapy and counselling, via Spill

   Key details:

   • Salary: £40,228 – £43,445
   • Full-Time
   • Location: London (Southwark) – The post holder will be expected to spend a minimum of one day per week in the London office. There may be opportunities to travel outside of the UK for work purposes, though this is optional. We actively support flexible and home working.

   Deadline:

   • March 5th, 2023 at 23:59

   Spring Impact’s Commitment to Inclusion

   Spring Impact is an equal opportunity employer. The impact of our work is strongest when our team has a variety of experience, expertise, and insights to draw from. We are committed to building an inclusive team and strongly encourage BIPOC, women, nonbinary people, LGBTQIA+ people, persons with disabilities, veterans, and persons from other underrepresented groups to apply. We take our responsibility to cultivate a culture of inclusion and justice at Spring Impact very seriously, and implement practices like our flexible working schedule (for those who may have caring responsibilities), de-biased hiring platform, and organization-wide involvement in DEIJ (diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice) workshops.

4. Can franchising help create quality jobs in London?

   July 25, 2017 2:49 pm Comments Off on Can franchising help create quality jobs in London?

    

   This week we published our research report, produced in partnership with The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) and Numbers for Good, and kindly funded by JP Morgan Chase Foundation. The report assesses the potential of franchises to provide quality employment for Londoners experiencing poverty. 

    

   The need to create high quality, stable jobs in London is undeniable. 2.25 million people experience poverty in London and in-work poverty is increasing. At the same time, the franchising sector in the UK has experienced strong growth, 621,000 people are employed in a franchise in the UK – a 70% increase in the last 10 years.

   Our research set out to assess the potential of franchises to provide quality employment for low-income groups in London. Here are some of our findings:

   • There is great excitement around the idea of harnessing franchising principles to address the need for quality jobs in London.
   • Any employability programme focused on commercial franchises would face operational challenges.
   • An alternative approach, applying the principles of franchising to mission led businesses, has the potential to achieve significant impact.

   If you would like to discuss our findings or have any questions about the research, please get in touch with Joe at  joe@springimpact.org