We are recruiting for a Strategy and Project Manager to work with the Director of Strategy and Engagement, the Nuffield Foundation's Leadership Team, staff and external stakeholders to plan, project manage and draft the next revised Nuffield Foundation strategy.    

The Nuffield Foundation is an open, collaborative, and engaged funder, offering more than money. Its aim is to understand the social, demographic, technological and economic trends that shape people’s lives. To this end, as well as funding research with a particular focus on education, justice and welfare, the Foundation supports three independent research centres focusing on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on society; bioethics; and improving the Family Justice system. By connecting the projects it funds, the Foundation gives voice to an overarching narrative and strengthens the impact of its research.   

This is an exciting time to join the Foundation as it thinks about its future direction. The last strategy period ran from 2017, and this role will support the production of the next phase strategy, helping the teams to work through what the big societal issues will be and how the Nuffield Foundation should respond to them through its funding priorities and impact activities.  

About the role

In this fixed-term role you will support the Director of Strategy and Engagement to define a programme of workstreams covering all elements of the strategy, including areas such as stakeholder engagement, horizon scanning, objective setting, and developing measures to evaluate impact. You will provide research and strategy support in areas such as setting up futures workshops and developing theories of change and impact measures, working with other Foundation staff and external experts where appropriate. 

You will be responsible for project managing the development of the new strategy, bringing together a project group of staff to progress each workstream. You will be responsible for developing a project plan with milestones and for monitoring progress to ensure that each is on track as well as reporting through the Foundation’s governance structures at the right moment.  

You will also help to write sections of the strategy (working with colleagues across the Foundation to iterate drafts), then work with our communications and public affairs teams on events supporting the strategy development, including external stakeholder consultation, and on the launch of the published strategy.  

For further information about the role, please click here to download the full job description. 

About you

You will be an experienced project manager, comfortable convening (and consulting with) multiple stakeholders across an organisation.  You will also have experience of strategy processes, including how to build and implement theories of change and/or impact measures.   This will be coupled with strong teamworking, communication and data-management skills, to work hands on with teams across the organisation to develop the Foundation’s next strategy.  

About the Nuffield Foundation

The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance educational opportunity and social well-being.  

We fund research that informs social policy, primarily in Education, Welfare and Justice. We also provide opportunities for young people to develop skills and confidence in science and research.  

We are the founder and co-funder of Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and the Ada Lovelace Institute.  

More information and how to apply

The closing date for applications is 09:30am (BST) on Thursday 13th July 2023, with interviews scheduled to take place on Tuesday 25th July 2023.

You will be required to complete some questions as part of this application process, and you are also required to upload an up-to-date copy of your CV. The Applied platform lets you save an application and resume it ahead of submitting before the application deadline.

Should you need to make an application in a different format or require any adjustments as part of the application process, please get in touch with us: recruitment@nuffieldfoundation.org

We are committed to inclusive working practices and during the application process we commit to: 

• paying for travel costs (and any childcare or care costs) for interviews where in-person attendance is required 

• making any reasonable adjustments – for example providing documents in different formats, arranging for a sign language interpreter for interviews etc 

• As a Disability Confident employer, we will offer a guaranteed first stage interview for disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role. 

 Our benefits package includes: 

• 28 days holiday per annum and all public holidays (with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days). 

• A salary exchange pension scheme that offers employer contributions of up to 11%. 

• Life assurance scheme. 

• We offer family leave policies that provide an enhanced level of pay 

• Cycle to work scheme and loans towards season tickets. 

• Opportunities for learning and development

• Wellbeing support including an employee assistance provider, personal health reviews with Bupa and a staff network of trained Mental Health First Aiders.