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Power to Change is the think-do tank that backs community business. We turn bold ideas into action so communities have the power to change what matters to them. We know community business works to build stronger communities and better places to live. We’ve seen people create resilient and prosperous local economies when power is in community hands. We also know the barriers that stand in the way of their success. We’re using our experience to bring partners together to do, test and learn what works.

We’re shaping the conditions for community business to thrive. 

Role Purpose

Working with colleagues across the organisation, the Insight Manager plays a crucial role in ensuring Power to Change’s research and insight programme is rigorous, creative and high impact. The role also gathers and shares robust evidence and learning about our approach and the community business sector.  

The Insight Manager will work with colleagues across the organisation to manage and deliver several key insight projects, and support the Associate Director for Policy & Insight to implement the organisation’s Insight Strategy. 

Role responsibilities  

• Undertake new, original research to help the organisation fulfil its vision, purpose and ambitions. 

• Act as an expert in approaches to research, learning, and data analysis, ensuring that our approach to insight is robust and uses high quality methodologies. 

• Lead on interrogating and generating insight from our existing evidence base. 

• Manage current and new contracts for activity evaluation, research, and data analysis. This includes both quantitative and qualitative approaches. 

• Provide guidance, technical support and oversight for research across the organisation. This includes both supporting and leading on commissioning research, evaluation, and ad hoc data analysis. 

• Support colleagues to embed evidence-led approaches across our delivery and integrate insights and new knowledge into how we work, informing demonstrator pilots with community businesses. 

• Manage systems for analysing programme activity and ensure that outputs are fed back into the ongoing development of activity and used to inform wider organisational strategy. 

• Take responsibility for ensuring projects are delivered to time and budget. 

Collaborative responsibilities 

• Work closely with fellow members of the Policy & Insight team to ensure that our communications, policy and influencing activity is supported by evidence and insight. 

• Support the development of a culture that encourages reflection and learning about community businesses, ensuring that what we learn is shared across the organisation. 

• Work closely with the Portfolio Management Team to ensure that our activities meet the needs of community businesses and, where appropriate, act as catalysts or market leaders for funders and decision-makers. 

Organisation responsibilities 

• Responsible for maintaining oversight and management of budgets and governance for all activities within your remit. 

• Responsible for oversight in the commissioning and management of contracted partners within your remit. 

• Represent Power to Change, attending events, monitoring developments, and providing visibility through social media content, blogposts and analysis. 

• Embed and continue to review diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work.  

• Be an active and engaged colleague, taking part in support and learning activities.  

• Provide ad-hoc assistance to other team members as required. 

  Skills and experience 

  Experienced in conducting quantitative and qualitative data analysis on varied data sets. 

• Knowledge and experience of a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research methods, with an ability to interrogate, interpret, and assess these. 

• Knowledge and experience of the policymaking process and the role research plays in helping to achieve policy change. 

• Ability to communicate complex methods, information, and research findings clearly and to a wide range of colleagues and external audiences. 

• Project management, including budget management.  

• Experience of commissioning, managing, and quality assuring external consultants to deliver research, evaluation, impact and/or learning to time and budget. 

• Excellent, high-level writing skills adaptable for different audiences and strong general communication skills. 

• Great inter-personal and relationship-building skills with external contacts and internal colleagues. 

• Database and data software management and/or usage (such as Salesforce). 

• Confident in using IT systems including MS Office.