£55,000 You will engage with all aspects of the impact teams’ responsibilities, including assessing the impact of potential deals, and implementation of the Impact and ESG framework at the deal, sector, and portfolio level. You will manage a sector portfolio of work, undertake ex-ante and ex-post assessments, and provide oversight and management to analysts to deliver high quality research, data and economic assessments and advice, to inform effective evidence-based decisions on specific deals within a sector or market. You will lead on aspects of refreshing our impact framework, including improving relevant metrics for measuring impact and devising our monitoring and evaluation strategy.

• Support the NWF to achieve its strategic objectives (supporting net zero and regional and local economic growth) – helping implement the NWF’s Impact Framework in relation to both deal assessment, monitoring and evaluation impact of the NWF’s work.
• Deals impact assessments lead - Serve as one of the impact team’s sector lead for a number of technologies within NWF’s key sectors. As the sector lead you will stay up to date with policy, technological and market developments in these sectors. You will work with NWF’s Banking, Policy and Risk teams to understand potential investments’ impact and assess whether the NWF is ‘additional’ e.g. addressing an undersupply of capital or market barrier over time.
• Lead the due diligence process for potential lending and equity deals (both private and Local Authority) – including producing impact, additionality and ESRG (environmental, social, resilience and governance) analysis to inform decision making by NWF’s Investment Committee. This involves assessing potential investments against a reasonable counterfactual in order to estimate their net impact on carbon emissions, local employment and productivity.
• Develop and implement an M&E, learning, and reporting framework to support the NWF’s approach to assessing impact in transactions before (and after) the NWF invests, and learnings throughout the different stages of investing in transactions.
• Supporting strategy workstreams across the NWF – developing communication products of impact’s work, supporting impact reports within annual reporting and accounts, getting involved in deal guidance and methodology work in the implementation of the impact and additionality frameworks.
• Be a team player and peer-review the analysis and assessment undertaken by other analysts in the function.
• Manage, engage and develop a high performing team of analysts. Work flexibly across the Impact function and the NWF to support a range of projects and enable a pro-active environment.
• Engage with relevant government departments and external experts.