The Crown Estate
Social & Economic Impact Manager

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Advert Close date: 24/08/2024
Purpose of Role:
At The Crown Estate, our purpose is to create shared and lasting prosperity for the nation. Sustainable development is at the heart of how we operate, balancing economic, environmental and social outcomes for both current and future generations.
Reporting to the Sustainability Director for Thriving Communities, the Social & Economic Impact Manager will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering initiatives that generate meaningful social and economic impact across our portfolio and communities.
This role will help drive a coherent, enterprise-wide approach to social and economic impact, identifying opportunities to create positive systemic change while supporting The Crown Estate's wider sustainability ambitions.
Context of opportunity / Main accountabilities:
- Supporting the delivery and evolution of The Crown Estate's social and economic impact strategy in collaboration with business units, place-based teams and senior stakeholders.
- Identifying and developing opportunities that drive long-term social and economic change beyond business-as-usual activity.
- Building partnerships and scaling innovative approaches that address community challenges and create measurable impact.
- Leading programmes, budgets, reporting and planning activities related to social and economic impact initiatives.
- Developing and improving approaches to measuring impact, ensuring outcomes can be tracked effectively at local, regional and national levels.
- Providing expert advice and guidance across the business on social and economic impact matters.
- Monitoring policy developments and emerging best practice, translating insights into recommendations for the organisation.
- Collaborating with sustainability colleagues to integrate social value alongside climate and nature ambitions.
- Preparing materials and recommendations for senior leaders and supporting key internal and external stakeholder engagement.
- Acting as a champion for continuous improvement, capability building and knowledge sharing across teams.
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Most important skills based requirements:
- Strong experience delivering social impact, economic impact or community-focused programmes, ideally within complex organisations or place-based environments.
- Deep understanding of social impact practices, policy developments and the interconnected nature of social, economic and sustainability outcomes.
- Proven ability to influence, engage and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and external partners.
- Experience managing programmes, budgets and external consultancy support to achieve strategic objectives.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess complex challenges, evaluate options and make clear, evidence-based recommendations.
- Knowledge of impact measurement frameworks and approaches, including experience tracking long-term social outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics for a variety of audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, identify risks and deliver results in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Collaborative mindset with a commitment to fostering inclusive partnerships, supporting colleagues and sharing expertise.
- Understanding of wider sustainability, ESG and social value agendas, with the ability to connect these themes to organisational strategy and decision-making.
- Resilient, curious and innovative, with a passion for creating positive outcomes for communities and society.


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Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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