• Business Development

  • Identify opportunities to expand existing projects
  • Identify opportunities for new projects and follow up appropriately
  • Be a brand ambassador for Spring Impact
  • Support BD team in proposal development
  • Lead preparation of proposals
  • Quality assure proposal to ensure best option proposed to client that meets SI's financial and performance objectives
  • Negotiate contracts and finalise for signature
  • Lead pitch meetings and support as required

• Best Practice Development

  • Review and sign off codified project outputs and develop case studies on project completion
  • Identify opportunities to add to SI's methodologies and toolkits
  • Develop new frameworks, methodologies and tools for use across SI team meeting changing context and client needs
  • Build and expand SI practice areas to meet current client / sector needs

• Organisational Contribution

  • Drive internal activities and practice development across marcomms, programmes and academy (SI’s external training) functions
  • Contribute more widely to SI strategic priority areas, using consulting experience and learning combined with research to further goals
  • Represent SI at events, functions and webinars
  • Support recruitment processes
  • Manage associate recruitment for projects and associate pool

• Consulting Practice Management

  • Consulting team management, including shaping team culture and standards across the consulting practice
  • Support Consulting Practice Director in practice management, leading on delegated functions or initiatives (e.g. resourcing, recruitment, quality assurance, business development, practice design, associate management)
  • Support Consulting Practice Director in financial management

Experience

• Significant experience (min. 8 years) in a consulting environment, either in a traditional consultancy or as an internal consultant delivering strategy or transformation projects - this is a requirement for the role
• Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder consulting projects from scoping through to delivery, with a strong track record of achieving quality outcomes
• Experience working with or within mission-driven organisations, with a strong understanding of the challenges they face in growing their impact. Experience in working with funders is highly desirable
• Experience line managing and developing others, with demonstrable commitment to supporting staff wellbeing and professional growth
• Experience in business development, including leading proposals and building senior client relationships

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent facilitation and workshop design skills, with the ability to engage and challenge senior leaders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce high-quality outputs and present complex ideas clearly
• Ability to manage a portfolio of projects simultaneously, balancing competing priorities without dropping the ball
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to diagnose organisational challenges and design appropriate solutions
• Ability to build trusted, long-term relationships with clients and act as a credible thought partner at executive level
• Ability to quality assure the work of others and hold high standards across a team

Knowledge

• Understanding of scaling and systems change approaches (or a strong appetite to develop this quickly)
• Understanding and knowledge of organisational development consulting would be advantageous
• Familiarity with the social sector landscape in the UK and/or internationally

Personal Qualities

• A collaborative team player who leads by example and brings others along with them
• Committed to equity, inclusion and justice, and able to bring this lens to both internal practice and client work
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to exercise sound judgement in complex situations
• Motivated by social impact and genuinely invested in the success of the organisations Spring Impact works with

Benefits

• A flexible approach to working and home-working, with team members being asked to come in once a week to our London office
• 25 days holiday, increasing to 27 after two years of service
• A personal training budget of £2,000

Our Commitment to Inclusion

We firmly believe that the impact of our work is strongest when our team has a variety of experience, expertise, and insights to draw from. Our staff draw on their lived experiences and their professional backgrounds from across the social sector. We’ve got plans to grow further and are looking to add experience and new perspectives as we do so. We are committed to ensuring that Spring Impact is representative of our society at large, and is an inclusive environment for all, regardless of race, age, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, socioeconomic background, family/parental status, and any other protected characteristics. We hope to continue fostering an environment of belonging, where all team members are encouraged to be their authentic selves and where their needs in the workplace are met.

In pursuit of these goals, we not only want to cultivate a culture of inclusion and justice at Spring Impact, but to implement practices that allow us to take steps in achieving these aims. This can be seen in our flexible working schedule (for those who may have caring responsibilities or may face inaccessible transportation), de-biased hiring platform, having an established DEIJ (diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice) working group and organisation-wide involvement in DEIJ workshops. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, especially those who may come from marginalised and underrepresented groups.

Next Steps

Applications should be submitted through the Be Applied site. Online interviews will be the default and will be conducted at the beginning of September.

If you have any questions about the application process or role, please email info@springimpact.org.

Key Details

• Salary: £63,000 - £68,000 (depending on experience)
• Full-Time (part-time 4 days per week will be considered)
• Closing: Wednesday 26th August
• Applicants must reside in the UK
• Applications should be submitted through the Be Applied site. Please note that we only look at submitted CVs after we complete the blind scoring of answers.