Canal & River Trust
Job title:
Insight & Capital Accounting Team Manager
Company
Canal & River Trust
Job description
Job Purpose
Job Title: Insight & Capital Accounting Team Manager
Salary: c.£57,000 + benefits
Location: Remote working with hub allocated when required.
We’re the charity helping millions of people feel happier and healthier by spending more time on and along our historic canals and rivers. Our tranquil and wildlife-rich spaces provide places to walk, run, bike, boat, fish and rest. It takes an extraordinary team to bring our waterways to life and that is where you come in.
This role will sit within our new Insight & Capital Accounting Team. Last year the Trust published our report which showed that the combined annual economic & social value of our waterways amounts to £6.1bn. This exciting new team will lead on our insight and economic research to inform the strategic direction of the Trust and produce a robust and credible set of natural and cultural capital accounts to comprehensively reflect the social and economic value of our waterways that can stand up to external scrutiny.
The Trust seeks to be an insight driven charity, so the work of this team is pivotal in providing credible, robust, transparent, and comprehensive insight to guide development of, and measure the impact of our organisational strategy, strategic messaging and positioning and the effectiveness of our marketing and brand and fundraising campaigns and appeals.
The postholder will also lead in the development and management of the Trust’s natural and cultural capital accounts framework, engaging and working across the whole organisation, ensuring that the public benefit value of our assets are robustly measured, monitored and reported on an annual basis, using non-market valuation methodologies that are fully aligned with HMT Treasury Green Book.
Location/base: This role will be based from home, but with an office ‘hub’ for collaborative team meetings.
Knowledge, Skills/Qualifications & Experience
Key accountabilities
Insight and Economic Research:
- Lead on organisational insight programme including statistical and demographic profiling analysis, interrogation, benchmarking and reporting in order to provide the evidence base for internal decision making at Board and Executive level on: brand (awareness, relevance & positioning; effectiveness of campaigns); User to Supporter (effectiveness of products & journeys); political and public campaigns (public sentiment survey and analysis); monitoring the quality of customer service & visitor experience (through mystery shopping; satisfaction surveys; behavioural modelling); involvement and participation offers / satisfaction e.g. volunteering.
- Lead on organisational performance measurement and monthly KPI reporting across the organisation.
- Critically appraise evidence and techniques to ensure that Trust economic, social and environmental evidence is conducted according to HMT Treasury Green Book principles.
- Lead on audience segmentation, behavioural science / economics & nudging work.
- Routine monitoring and analysis of external environment to ensure that the organisation remains abreast of developments in the research sector.
- Provide economic evidence and cost-benefit analysis to support funding bids to third party funding bodies.
- Provide expert advice to internal stakeholders with regards to economic appraisal and evidence based business cases.
- Responsible for ensuring robust statistical data collation, analysis and validation required for building our evidence base,
- Undertaking extensive qualitative and quantitative data analysis and validation work including in-depth reviews of different research projects to identify key insights and trends, understand the implications of these insights for an organisation and recommend resultant actions.
Natural & Cultural Capital Accounting:
- Managing the team’s Natural Capital Accounting Specialist to ensure the development of a systematic natural capital accounting framework to value and monitor the state of the Trust’s natural assets.
- Leading on project coordination and delivery of natural capital accounting projects including planning, implementation and reporting.
- Engaging with external bodies such as DCMS to identify potential opportunities for integration of cultural capital into the standard capitals framework in order to robustly value the Trust’s culture and heritage assets.
- Working with team leads across directorates to carry out tasks in the support of the Trust’s core objectives.
- Keeping an up to date economic and social evidence base underpinning the Trust’s strategic decisions in this area.
About you
Qualifications & Attainments:
- Degree & post-graduate qualification in Economics or related field and/or equivalent work experience.
- An academic background or work experience in the field of environmental economics is advantageous.
Work Experience:
- Evidence of commissioning and delivery of high-quality economic research and critical appraisal of third-party research.
- Considerable experience in applying non-market valuation techniques to real-world situations.
- Experience of conducting research and reporting using HM Treasury Green principles.
- Excellent understanding of natural capital concepts, principles, methods and tools, including valuation, accounting and reporting.
- Experience in environmental/ecosystem service modelling & analysis.
- Experience leading a team towards achieving yearly objectives.
Skills:
- Ability to communicate results of complex analysis to lay audiences.
- Excellent supplier management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proactive and able to work on own initiative as well as a part of a team.
To apply: click on the “Apply for this job” button and follow the process – complete the application form & upload current CV
Applications close: 18 February 2024. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any questions about the role please contact [email protected]
What We Offer
In addition to your salary of c.£57,000, you will benefit from a competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, great holiday entitlement and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits, all of which can be found here (https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/our-benefits).
- 25 days paid holiday, plus paid Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days plus Bank Holidays after 3 years
- Home working status with ‘hub’ facilities available if a need to work outside of home – flexibility. Monday to Friday working, no weekend working.
- Annual £200 personal learning & growth award to spend on any learning related activity – hobbies; aspirations etc.
- Free access to specialist counselling on a range of issues – health; financial; lifestyle; well-being; domestic & neighbourly matters.
- Access to a range of employee benefits including – store discounts; boating holiday discounts; holiday purchase scheme.
- 2 days paid volunteering leave, volunteering for local community project work.
At the Trust we care passionately for our waterways, and as importantly, for those who look after and use them. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do as a Trust. We are striving to represent the diverse communities that we are a part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community.
All candidates will be treated on the basis of their merits, skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job.
When you join the Canal & River Trust you become a member of an engaged team working to preserve our heritage for future generations. Come and share your passion and knowledge with a team that makes a difference to millions of people every day.
Find out more about us on our website: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us
Expected salary
£57000 per year
Location
United Kingdom
Job date
Sat, 03 Feb 2024 06:08:54 GMT
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