Organisation: Active Essex Foundation
Location: Chelmsford, Essex (Hybrid)
Salary: £48,000 – £52,000 per year
Contract: 18 months (until March 2028)
About Active Essex Foundation
Active Essex Foundation is a successful and growing charity dedicated to creating the conditions for young people and communities across Essex to thrive. Its work focuses on three core areas: improving young people's mental health, reducing vulnerabilities to youth crime and exploitation, and strengthening communities through trusted relationships and positive engagement. The Foundation collaborates with a network of over 100 community organisations and local partners to design and deliver programmes that use physical activity, mentoring and community support as tools to build resilience, improve wellbeing and reduce inequalities.
This role also works across Active Essex, the strategic partnership for physical activity and sport across Greater Essex, working with local authorities, health partners, voluntary sector organisations and communities to create the conditions for active lives.
The Role
The Impact Manager will provide professional leadership for research, evaluation and evidence generation across the organisation's activities - leading the development of robust evaluation approaches, ensuring methodological quality, supporting organisational learning and overseeing the work of Impact Researchers operating within place and thematic structures.
Working closely with the Intelligence Manager, the role plays a key part in coordinating organisational insight and evaluation priorities, ensuring local intelligence, research and evaluation evidence are translated into meaningful action. It acts as a senior professional for evaluation and impact work across the organisation, supporting a culture where evidence is consistently used to improve outcomes for communities across Essex.
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Location: Chelmsford, Essex (Hybrid)
Salary: £48,000 – £52,000 per year
Contract: 18 months (until March 2028)
About Active Essex Foundation
Active Essex Foundation is a successful and growing charity dedicated to creating the conditions for young people and communities across Essex to thrive. Its work focuses on three core areas: improving young people's mental health, reducing vulnerabilities to youth crime and exploitation, and strengthening communities through trusted relationships and positive engagement. The Foundation collaborates with a network of over 100 community organisations and local partners to design and deliver programmes that use physical activity, mentoring and community support as tools to build resilience, improve wellbeing and reduce inequalities.
This role also works across Active Essex, the strategic partnership for physical activity and sport across Greater Essex, working with local authorities, health partners, voluntary sector organisations and communities to create the conditions for active lives.
The Role
The Impact Manager will provide professional leadership for research, evaluation and evidence generation across the organisation's activities - leading the development of robust evaluation approaches, ensuring methodological quality, supporting organisational learning and overseeing the work of Impact Researchers operating within place and thematic structures.
Working closely with the Intelligence Manager, the role plays a key part in coordinating organisational insight and evaluation priorities, ensuring local intelligence, research and evaluation evidence are translated into meaningful action. It acts as a senior professional for evaluation and impact work across the organisation, supporting a culture where evidence is consistently used to improve outcomes for communities across Essex.