Campbell Chamberlain
Senior Strategy, Impact & Learning Partner
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We are supporting a well-established mission-driven organisation through a significant period of growth and are looking for a Senior Strategy, Impact & Learning Partner, sitting at the intersection of strategy, learning, evidence, systems thinking and portfolio decision-making.
The role will work closely with senior Programme Directors and Programme Managers across a number of portfolios, acting as trusted strategic partners and critical friends. They will help teams make clearer, more evidence-informed and adaptive choices, while strengthening the organisation’s wider culture of learning.
The opportunity
You will help portfolio teams translate strategy into practice by:
- Developing and refining portfolio strategies, hypotheses, assumptions and learning questions;
- Creating practical portfolio learning plans that connect strategic questions with evidence, partner insight, research, evaluation and reflection;
- Helping teams use learning from implementation to adapt strategy and future decisions;
- Bringing systems thinking and complexity-aware practice into portfolio choices;
- Facilitating strategic reflection and sensemaking with senior colleagues;
- Synthesising evidence, research and external insight into clear implications and recommendations;
- Connecting learning across portfolios and helping identify common themes, emerging opportunities and strategic risks.
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You will also work closely with external partners, helping ensure learning and evidence processes are proportionate, useful and non-extractive, while ensuring insight from implementation genuinely feeds back into active portfolio management and future choices.
They are interested in individuals with substantial experience across some combination of:
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- Strategic learning
- Evaluation
- Adaptive strategy
- Impact
- Research
- Systems thinking
- Organisational learning
- Portfolio strategy
You may currently work within a foundation, international development organisation, evaluation or strategy consultancy, public-interest organisation or another mission-driven environment and are likely to bring:
- Deep practical experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning;
- Experience designing theories of change, hypotheses, learning questions or portfolio learning frameworks;
- Strong systems-thinking and complexity-aware practice;
- Experience working with senior programme or portfolio leaders;
- Evidence of turning insight and reflection into material strategic or investment decisions;
- Strong facilitation and relationship-building skills;
- Exceptional synthesis and communication.
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