Policy & Insight Manager - Heart Of Bucks

Overview

We are looking for an excellent communicator with a passion for using evidence and data to understand and improve wellbeing for our local communities and VCSE sector. If you can research issues and create effective, engaging and persuasive written content we might be a good match.

As our Policy & Insight Manager, kindly funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, you will play a pivotal role in implementing the lottery-funded project 'Listen, Engage, Act,' collaborating closely with the Head of Bucks Data Exchange and CEO. Your responsibilities will span across policy development, data analysis, partnership building, media engagement, and research.

Your office base will be at our lovely office in Weston Turville, but hybrid working will be available and there will be plenty of travel around the County to support you in fully engaging with our VCSE sector.

Job Salary: £28,600 to 33,746 per annum

Contract Type: Fixed term contract to December 2025

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Closing Date for Applications: 31st March 2024

About us

We are Heart of Bucks, the Community Foundation for Buckinghamshire. As a registered charity ourselves, we work with some amazing donors to provide a broad range of funding to charities and not for profit organisations across Bucks.

Our programmes range from those helping to address health inequalities or community safety, through poverty and inclusion projects, sports and leisure, to education, arts and culture programmes, and everything in-between.

There is much more information about our work on the website here: www.heartofbucks.org

About the role

In this role, you will be:

• Researching for (and advising) a range of stakeholders on local issues through written reports and other media.
• Quickly and succinctly summarise complex social problems and issues, and to ensure HoB is appropriately positioned on important, emergent, and evolving issues.
• Act as Advisor to the CEO, Trustee Board and others on local need in Bucks.
• Compiling HoB internal data and information to ensure that our local policy and engagement is evidence-based.
• Participate in partnership working across the VCSE and public sector in Buckinghamshire
• You’ll also be working closely with the rest of the team on many of your projects.

There is much more detail about the role in our Job Description.

About you

Our ideal candidate would be described as…

• A strong team player with a collaborative mindset.
• Happy to lead and shape a programme of work.
• An excellent communicator, able to work with people across a range of backgrounds.
• Calm, highly organised, and with a professional attitude to their work.
• Self-motivated, flexible, and responds positively to opportunities.

If you have experience of social research and report writing that would be a real strength for this role.

It is essential that you have a full driving licence with access to a car, or are otherwise able to travel independently when required, to carry out this role fully.

There is a full person specification in our Job Description.

Other information

Please e-mail your CV and a covering letter (maximum 1 side A4) to henry@heartofbucks.org outlining why you think you are suited to the position.

Hint: It will help us shortlist you if you consider each element of the person specification (it’s in the Job Description) and explain in your covering letter how you meet the specifications. This may be by reference to your experience, skill, and knowledge gained in employment, voluntary work, studying, or a personal setting.

Heart of Bucks is a Disability Confident Employer, committed to equality of opportunity and celebration of diversity. We are signatories to the Mindful Employer Charter and are a Living Wage Employer. We take great care to ensure that our actions as an employer reflect our ethos of inclusion. We actively promote equality of opportunity and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates. We select all candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

Applications will close on 31st March 2024 and we expect to interview on 9th and 11th April 2024.