Impact on Urban Health
Innovation Manager (Maternity Cover)
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Application Deadline: 5 August 2026
Department: Impact on Urban Health - Innovation
Location: London, Hybrid
Compensation: £53,000 - £56,000 / year
Description
Impact on Urban Health is part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation. Our collective mission is to build the foundations of a healthier society.
As a member of the team, you have a real opportunity to shape our work and the impact we can have. This is fuelled by our desire to be more than the sum of our parts. We’re curious, we think big and we’re not afraid to take risks.
As part of our team, you will work alongside talented people from a mix of personal and professional backgrounds. We are a Living Wage employer and support flexible working, part-time roles and job shares. Though our ambitions are serious, this is a friendly place to work with lots of opportunities to meet and socialise with colleagues. We believe there is immense power in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.
There is more information about working with us here https://urbanhealth.org.uk/who-we-are/working-at-impact-on-urban-health where you can find out:
- How we approach recruitment
- Our team, culture and values
- The benefits of working with us
- Our approach to diversity, equity & inclusion, health & wellbeing, and learning & development
The Innovation Manager supports the Director of Innovation to execute core parts of the innovation strategy by embedding improved delivery practices and test-and-learn capabilities across Impact on Urban Health and, where relevant, the wider Foundation, overseeing a priority set of cross-IoUH and within-programme innovation projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Innovation Execution: Work with the Director of Innovation to identify areas for change or improvement within the organisation, developing strategies that consider the organisation’s culture, structure and operational workflow.
- Stakeholder Management: Identify key stakeholders affected by proposed changes and develop engagement plans, facilitating workshops or meetings to gather input and ensure stakeholder buy-in.
- Project Management: Lead cross-functional project teams to implement changes, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and on budget, while utilising project management tools and methodologies to track progress and address issues.
- Prototyping and Testing: Develop prototypes or pilot programmes to test the feasibility and impact of proposed changes, designing and implementing testing methodologies to gather data and inform further decision-making.
- Researching and Testing: Find and test existing or new tools for solving current challenges before implementation to ensure suitability.
- Training and Support: Develop and deliver training programmes to educate staff on new processes, tools or methodologies resulting from changes, providing ongoing support to ensure effective adaptation.
- Performance Monitoring and Evaluation: Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and success metrics to evaluate the impact of implemented changes, regularly monitoring and reporting on performance to make necessary adjustments.
- Feedback Loop Creation: Implement mechanisms for ongoing feedback from staff and stakeholders on the impact of changes, using feedback to make iterative improvements and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks associated with innovation initiatives and develop strategies to mitigate these risks, preparing contingency plans for unforeseen challenges during implementation.
- Communication: Develop and execute a communication plan to keep all stakeholders informed about the progress of change initiatives, ensuring transparent and open communication channels to address concerns and provide updates.
- Cultural Alignment: Ensure that change initiatives align with the organisation’s culture and values, working to enhance or evolve the organisational culture as needed to support innovation.
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Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Skills, abilities, and attributes:
- Excellent project management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Outstanding organisational skills
- Excellent budget and risk management skills
- Excellent problem-solving ability
- A highly effective influencer
- Ability to use research, metrics and interpret data
- Personally and professionally committed to our mission and share our values of being enterprising, collaborative, delivery-minded and inclusive
- Consistently embeds DEI into ways of working and able to create a feeling of inclusion for others, a presence to manage and lead others
- Determined, with a willingness to drive progress
- Seeks clarity and actively ensures roles and responsibilities are clear
- Comfortable handling uncertainty and navigating complexity.
Knowledge, experience, and qualifications:
- A good knowledge of agile development, testing and prototyping, feedback loop creation and other relevant design methodologies
- Experience launching new programmes of work and trialling new approaches and projects
- Experience of managing projects that involve multiple stakeholders and teams
- Experience of facilitating meetings with colleagues from a range of different teams
- Experience of developing and delivering training
Benefits
- Contributory pension
- Annual personal development budget
- Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
- Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
- Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
- Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.
- Shower facilities and bike lock area.
- Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
- Subsidies for glasses
- Employee Assistance Programme
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