Impact Assessment Analyst

Job Description

Location London or Milton Keynes (minimum of two days a week in the office. You can do more than two days if preferable)

Reporting to Team Leader Business Case & Impact Analysis Team

Working hours Full time (9 day fortnight)

Salary Band 2.2

Salary £41,555 to £50,850 (depending on office location and proven ability)

Contract type/duration Permanent

Closing date: 2nd September 2024

Purpose of the role

The Connected Places Catapult accelerates smarter living and travelling in and between the places of tomorrow. We focus on growing businesses with innovations in mobility services and the built environment that enable new levels of physical, digital and social connectedness. We operate at the intersection between public and private sectors and between local government and transport authorities. We convene the disparate parts of the market to help innovators navigate the complexity of doing business, creating new commercial opportunities and improving productivity, socio-economic and environmental benefits for places.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Impact Assessment Analyst to join our Economic Business Case & Impact Assessment Team. The role will support a broad range of analysis on the social, environmental and economic impacts of new technologies across multiple domains, including mobility and the built environment. This is an exciting time to join a team that is conducting ground-breaking analysis and thought leadership on the impacts of new and innovative products, services and technologies with a particular focus on decarbonisation and welfare. You should be passionate and skilled at conducting rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis throughout various stages of programme lifecycles from bidding for funding to supporting feasibility studies, pilots or large-scale trials.

The Business Case & Impact Assessment Team supports project across the whole Connected Places Catapult and as such you will typically be working on multi-disciplinary projects with engineers, data scientists, planners, modellers, software developers, environmental specialists, social researchers, designers and a diverse range of external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake economic impact analysis on a diverse range of subject areas such that the impacts of new innovations on society, environment and the economy can be understood.
• Support the design of Impact Assessment Work Packages and collaborate across inter-disciplinary project teams.
• Develop and apply social value economics evaluation and appraisal techniques, for example using the latest health, wellbeing, and environmental indicators.
• Undertake impact mapping, data analysis, horizon scanning, roadmap development and research as required to meet project needs.
• Produce high quality reports, analysis, graphs, charts, blog posts and case studies to enable the findings of your analysis to be disseminated either within the project team or more widely on behalf of the catapult.
• Providing expertise and content support to various projects across the catapult, while supporting the activities of other colleagues.

Requirements

Required skills and experience

• A degree in economics or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Excellent, statistical, analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to use economic models and conduct statistical analyses.
• Thorough understanding of economic theory and methods that enable you to analyse complex societal benefits and impacts of new innovations.
• Ability to present the results of your analyses in high quality written reports.
• Familiarity with different evaluation designs and methods for identifying and gathering monitoring data.
• Experience of using UKs ‘Green Book’ and ‘Magenta Book’ for evaluation or project appraisal.
• Interest in technology and innovation and how this could be used to improve the built environment, mobility and wellbeing as well as environmental sustainability.

Desirable:

• Ability to work with large data sets, for example to find societal and economic correlations and association or to perform analyses with statistical software packages.
• Knowledge about how different markets work, economic growth & welfare, and decarbonisation.

We welcome discussions on alternative working patterns, such as part-time arrangements, to better accommodate individual needs and promote a healthy work-life balance. Please feel free to discuss these options with your recruiter.

Benefits

• 9 day fortnight for everyone, we have a full company shutdown every other Friday.
• 23.5 holiday entitlement for everyone, with pro-rata calculations for part-time employees, along with a Christmas shutdown period for additional days off.
• Competitive pension, up to 10% company contribution to help you save for your future.
• Two paid days of volunteering leave per year (pro-rata for part-time employees) to support charitable activities.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing 24/7 confidential work/life support services to you and your immediate family members.
• Cycle to Work Scheme encouraging a healthy and sustainable commute.
• Cash Health Plan, offering reimbursement for a wide range of essential and everyday healthcare expenses, promoting your well-being.
• Payroll Giving scheme, allowing regular charitable contributions from pre-tax income, maximizing the impact of your donations.
• Discounts and offers from a wide variety of retailers, enhancing your purchasing power and providing savings opportunities.

Employment here is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law. We also make all reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under laws protecting the rights of the disabled.

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