Rethink Ireland
Impact Management and Learning Manager - 2 years Fixed Term Contract
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Impact Management & Learning Manager
(Internal to Rethink Ireland Staff ONLY)
Contract: 2 years full-time - Fixed Term Contract
Based: Dublin, Cork or Galway, with some travel within Ireland
Salary: €50,000 - €63,000 depending on experience
Benefits: 24 days Annual Leave and employer pension contribution
Hybrid Working: Opportunity to work mostly from home
ROLE PURPOSE
Leads on how Rethink Ireland measures, analyses, understands and communicates its impact.
The role owns the organisation’s Impact Management Framework and associated tools, ensuring high quality impact data is collected, analysed and translated into meaningful insight for decision making, reporting and organisational learning.
The role supports teams across Rethink Ireland to use evidence effectively in the design, delivery and review of funds, programmes and internal initiatives.
A key part of the role is to strengthen Rethink Ireland’s learning culture by ensuring that evidence, successes, challenges and lessons are shared and used to improve practice.
Another key focus of the role is the development of Rethink Ireland’s data systems and processes, including greater automation of data collection and analysis and exploration of how AI and other emerging technologies can support improved impact management and organisational efficiency.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Impact Management and Learning Manager sits within the Operations team, reports to the Operations Director and works across all business units, including Management and the Board.
Responsibilities include:
1. IMPACT MANAGEMENT AND MEASUREMENT
Lead on the implementation of our existing impact management framework and tools:
- Lead and develop new fund scopes & projects proposals, and coordinate with Investment Areas Heads, Portfolio Management Team and Business Development Team to ensure timely delivery and high quality standards
- Deliver training on our impact management tools (such as OHAs and PARs) and work closely with all business units
- Use qualitative and quantitative data to share regular insights to and across business units to maintain innovation edge
- Lead and execute on data collection, analysis and verification across the organisation: responsible for analysing and feeding back insights to strengthen our work and inform our strategic & investment decisions
- Coordinate quarterly and annual reports for the Department of Rural and Community Development under Rethink Ireland’s funding contract
- Prepare reports against Rethink Ireland’s Strategic Plan and Implementation Plan for the Management Teams and Board
- Deliver bespoke internal and external research
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2. DATA ANALYSIS, INSIGHT AND REPORTING
Lead on the delivery of all internal fund exit impact reports; setting standards and guidance across investment areas
- Lead and coordinate our Impact reports & case studies
- Support the co-design of our capacity building programme in impact management & measurement, which will be delivered in part by you / Rethink Ireland and in part by commissioned partners.
- Support our Business Development, Marketing and Finance teams to better access awardee, impact and fund related data for strategic and operational purposes
- Support HR in measuring and evaluating staff initiatives when required, such as staff surveys, training programs, to drive continuous improvement and engagement
3. RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING
Support and coordinate all external evaluations
- Lead the adoption of a culture of learning, transparency and evidence-based decision-making processes generating trusted, credible and actionable impact information to the Board, Management teams, Rethink Ireland staff, donors and key stakeholders.
4. DATA SYSTEMS, AUTOMATION AND AI
Develop the automatisation of the process of data collection, analysis, and insights
- Explore data and AI system that can support improved data collection, aggregation and creation of data insights
5. LEADERSHIP, COLLABORATION AND RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
Lead and project manage the IML team to deliver all projects and tasks on time, to a high standard, and in a collaborative manner in keeping with Rethink Ireland’s values
- Line manage or mentor other team members as required
- Build successful partnerships with other organisations as required
- Support the marketing, fundraising and communications work of Rethink Ireland
- Be an ambassador for Rethink Ireland
PERSON SPECIFICATION
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- 5-7 years relevant experience, including track record in project management and delivery
- Degree or Postgraduate Qualification in a relevant field
- Extensive experience in social impact measurement, collection and analysis of impact data
- Experience in Impact Management & Measurement
- Experience using Monitoring & Evaluation tools and systems
- Experience in the development of project proposals - excellent report writing skills
- Experience in leading and managing a team
- Leadership - capacity to communicate to a group of researchers / analysts to work towards ambitious targets and a shared common vision / goal
- Experience reporting to key stakeholders clear evidence based findings (collection and analysis of impact data)
- Experience with gathering and analysing all types of data and preparing datasets to support internal and external reports
- Proficient in Microsoft tools and Salesforce
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to build and maintain relationships
- Committed to excellence and have strong attention to detail
- Ability to work independently, under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment
- Team player and self-motivated problem solver
- A natural curiosity and a desire to learn.
You are passionate about making Ireland a better place and are committed to Rethink Ireland’s mission and values.
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DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Extensive experience conducting action research in our areas of focus
- Extensive experience with Monitoring & Evaluation systems and tools
- Strong competencies in quantitative and qualitative research methods, statistical analysis, and have experience of delivering comparative and evaluation studies
- An awareness of the ethics involved in the impact management process
Our Values
We work with our hearts and our heads – we value compassion, passion and fun.
We take smart risks and we allow permission to fail because we know that innovation and risk are two sides of the same coin.
We believe that social change is a team sport. We build trusted relationships, and we choose to collaborate to achieve our goals.
We are curious and hunger to learn.
We value bold ideas and bold leadership, and we develop remarkable people.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and we strongly believe that diversity and inclusion equate to success. The work we do is underpinned by respect, equality, inclusion & diversity. If you would like us to provide any accommodations during the online interview process, please let us know.
In line with Ireland’s Equality Legislation, we actively oppose discrimination on the following 9 grounds:
- Gender.
- Civil status: single, married, divorced, etc.
- Family status: if you're the parent or person responsible for a child over 18, or if you're the main carer or parent of a person with a disability.
- Sexual orientation.
- Religion.
- Age.
- Disability.
- Race.
- Traveller community
We also actively oppose discrimination on the grounds of socio-economic disadvantage.
HOW TO APPLY?
Please apply through this LINK by 5pm on Thur 10th September 2026.
Interviews will take place on 14th September 2026.
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