Learning Manager

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation • Full-time • London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom • from £47.50k / year • 9h ago

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is a leading independent funder. They aim to improve the natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK. They provide c.£50million annually in grants to organisations working towards their aims. They also have an allocation of £60 million for social investment and a £10m impact investment allocation, alongside their £1.3bn endowment.

The Foundation is motivated by the need to address the causes and impacts of climate change, and they are committed to social justice and tackling racism and inequity. They also want to play a more active role, using their range of tools to effect change. In addition to funding brilliant organisations, this includes convening and brokering alliances, commissioning research, and using our influence to achieve our goals.

Prospectus is delighted to be working with Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to recruit a Learning Manager on a 12-month Maternity Cover contract.

More information about working for the Foundation including their values, benefits and HR policies is here.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity to play a central role in ensuring learning and evidence informs decisions and contributes to the Foundation’s strategy. Sitting at the heart of the organisation, this person will support the Foundation’s learning and evaluation work, overseeing learning and feedback processes, commissioning research, and sharing what the Foundation’s learning with different audiences.

This person will lead on conducting both qualitative and quantitative analysis, translating complex information into clear, practical insights that influence real decision-making. The ability to draw out key themes, identify patterns and make thoughtful recommendations will directly support how the Foundation delivers its strategy.

This is a highly collaborative role which will work across teams, supporting colleagues in funding, communications and resources, and contributing to shared initiatives with other funders. It will facilitate conversations and reflection, helping colleagues and partners learn from their work and to continuously improve the Foundation’s work.

The person

The successful candidate will be naturally curious, analytical and will share in the overall vision of the Foundation. They will enjoy exploring data, asking questions and presenting insights that can make a genuine difference. They will bring substantial experience of research and analysis in addition to having the ability to work confidently across both qualitative and quantitative methods. This experience will ideally have been gained in the grant making, philanthropic, charity or not-for-profit sectors.

This person will be a strong communicator both verbally and in writing and will be able to translate complex findings into clear, compelling narratives that others can easily digest and act on. Comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders both internally and externally, this person will be a great listener and facilitator, able to curate open and reflective conversations.

Highly organised and self-motivated, this person will be able to manage competing priorities and see projects through to completion methodically in addition to being confident using data tools and systems to produce high-quality, accurate work to tight deadlines. IT savvy across all MS packages will be essential in addition to experience of Salesforce and data visualisation/analysis software being very useful indeed.

Thoughtful, intellectually curious and committed to learning, this person will be driven by not just generating insight, but using it to improve practice and outcomes across the work of the organisation and its community of grantees and wider networks.

If you are excited by the idea of using evidence gathering and insight to shape funding that makes a real difference, we would love to hear from you.

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation believes that a greater diversity of views, skills, and lived experience will help generate better ideas, and will lead to better decision making. We want to encourage applicants with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. In particular, those with lived experience of racial inequity, disability, or poverty.

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