The Organisation
ImpactEd Group exists to support our partners to make better decisions using high quality evidence. The Group consists of 3 discrete, but complementary, business units:
- ImpactEd Evaluation works with schools and organisations, such as multi-academy trusts and education organisations, to analyse the impact of programmes and interventions to help partners do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.
- ImpactEd Consulting offers strategic and operational support for its partners, to address challenges and underpin carefully managed growth.
- The Engagement Platform (TEP) measures school and teacher engagement,
to support sustainable working cultures.
The Opportunity
This is a new role in the central team at ImpactEd Group as part of the
Operations team. You will be supporting finance processes across all
three business units on a wide range of tasks and responsibilities. The
team is small and still forming; you will play an important role in
bringing our finance function in-house.
This role will suit you if you enjoy being buried in the detail; are
comfortable working with MS Office (especially Excel); have experience
of using an accounting package or similar (we use Xero) and enjoy
creating and improving processes. Your work will cover lots of small
tasks that need to be completed as efficiently as possible, for example
responding to partner financial queries or bank reconciliation, and
bigger projects, such as improving reporting processes; you need to be
comfortable switching between both types of work. You will also support
employee operations such as booking and paying for travel and elements
of event management.
If you want to work to support better use of data across the education
sector, we want to hear from you.
About You
We are looking for some of the following attributes, though you might be more experienced in some areas than others. We encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and do not require specific qualifications. Whether you have a degree or not, returning to work or have recently changed career we would like to hear from you.
- Experience in keeping financial records and/or a basic understanding of bookkeeping; being comfortable with numbers and Excel is essential.
- Excellent organisational skills, and enjoy setting up and rigorously following processes, as well as updating tracking systems, and planning ahead.
- Independent and resourceful worker, able to take responsibility for finding your own solutions and managing your own workstreams and deadlines.
- Exceptional attention to detail, with high quality
and accurate outputs, and able to sense check your own work.
Why us?
As an organisation we care deeply about creating a meaningful place to work and supporting people to grow personally and professionally. These are reflected in our organisational values and our associated commitments to:
- Agile and flexible working: responsive management, flexible hours, hybrid or fully remote working
- Personal excellence: we invest significantly in professional development, including an external mentor for every staff member, an individual CPD budget, and formal and informal training and support
- Mental health and wellbeing: access to health and wellbeing advice and free therapist support.
- Remote or hybrid working from a co-working/office space available plus
5 days per year for whole-org meet ups.
Diversity and Inclusion at ImpactEd Group
As a growing organisation we are committed to:
- Becoming increasingly representative of the sector and geographies that we operate in.
- Providing a positive experience of work as part of an inclusive culture led by our organisational values.
- Maintaining an annual EDI action plan - led by the internal team and
supported by a Board sponsor.
The deadline is Monday 10th June at 23:59