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BBC Children in Need are looking for an Impact Senior Manager for a permanent contract based in the Central region

Working into the Head of UK Portfolio, the primary purpose of this role is to provide senior leadership across the Children in Need Central region grant-making teams, leading and optimising all of BBC Children in Need’s grant-making and management within this geographic patch.

The role will ensure we are driving our charitable ambition of having the greatest impact for children and young people across the UK by strengthening our place-based and localised response which is critically important to us and something which we all believe make us more effective.

BBC Children in Need exists to make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK. Our refreshed objectives and activities will ensure the impact we have on children’s lives is front and centre of the work the charity undertakes over and above the projects and services we fund.

The key responsibilities of the Impact Senior Manager will be

• To provide strategic oversight and support to teams across the Central region, coordinating activity and supporting staff, Committees, Assessors, the children and young people’s sector and the BBC.
• To help ensure cohesion, shared and embedded learning at local, regional, national and UK levels
• To work with senior colleagues in ensuring continuous improvement and development in grant making and grant management policy and practice.
• To contribute to delivering simple, safe and effective solutions in the design and delivery of grant-making and management functions, with a focus on continuous improvement, consistency, flexibility (e.g. to respond to the needs of different geographical areas across the UK) and embedded learning

The Impact Senior Manager will have

• Proven ability to work at strategic level
• Excellent knowledge of the voluntary and community sector and/or the children and young people field
• Outstanding communication, presentational and team working skills
• Experience of communicating to a high standard with a wide range of stakeholders
• Strong experience and excellent understanding of grant-making at an operational and strategic level

Experience of working within the UK-wide or geographically dispersed context

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Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Birmingham

£42,000 - £54,000

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.