The Impact Lead provides leadership and direction for WiNUK’s Impact function, overseeing impact evaluation, impact measurement and reporting activities across the organisation. Working closely with the Head of Strategy, Impact & Research, the Lead ensures impact initiatives, metrics and reporting align with WiNUK’s strategy, objectives and OKRs. 

 

Focus

Impact leadership, impact measurement and evaluation, organisational reporting, evidence-based decision-making, impact communication, and cross-department collaboration.

 

Key Priorities

• Lead and coordinate WiNUK’s impact evaluation and reporting activities.

• Ensure impact metrics and evaluation frameworks align with organisational strategy and OKRs.

• Maintain effective coordination between the Impact Team and other WiNUK departments to collect and communicate meaningful impact data.

• Ensure impact data, records, reporting systems, and evaluation processes remain consistent, accurate and up to date.

• Support the effective communication of WiNUK’s impact to volunteers, partners, sponsors, funders and external audiences.

 

Responsibilities

Team & Project Management

• Maintain regular communication with impact evaluators via subteam meetings and check-ins, providing guidance, support and oversight of ongoing activities.

• Lead on presenting a slide with Impact Team updates for WiNUK volunteer meetings.

• Provide regular reports and updates on project progress and emerging challenges to the Head of Strategy, Impact & Research, through Departmental Leadership Check-Ins (approximately every two weeks).

• Maintain ongoing communication on Slack regarding impact initiatives, evaluation activities, emerging challenges, project progress and upcoming deadlines to the Head of Department.

• Maintain oversight of impact-related projects, and support volunteers in taking ownership of day-to-day activities.

• Delegate relevant tasks to Impact team volunteers and monitor progress against agreed objectives.

 

Strategic Alignment 

• Collaborate closely with the Head of Strategy, Impact & Research to ensure impact initiatives, metrics and evaluation activities align with organisational strategy, OKRs and departmental priorities. 

• Implement, with the support of the Impact Team, the development and refinement of standardised impact frameworks, metrics and evaluation approaches across WiNUK.

• Collaborate with the partnerships, sponsorships, and grants team, strategy team, and other relevant heads of departments to identify, collect and communicate key metrics that best demonstrate WiNUK’s impact to partners, sponsors, funders and the wider community.

• Provide recommendations for impact assessment methodologies, surveys and evaluation tools.

 

Impact Tracking & Data Management

• Oversee the Impact Evaluators with collection, maintenance, and analysis of impact metrics across WiNUK teams.

• Ensure impact tracking systems remain accurate, consistent, and up to date across teams.

• Work with volunteers and departments to collect relevant quantitative and qualitative data.

• Provide recommendations for internal surveys (e.g. Annual Volunteer Survey), external surveys (e.g. Mentimeter for live events impact tracking) and general impact assessment methodologies to support evidence-based decision making and drive change aligning with WiNUK’s mission.

• Identify opportunities to improve data collection and reporting processes.

 

Impact Reporting & Communication

• Ensure impact findings are communicated in a clear, accessible way for internal and external audiences.

• Contextualise findings against organisational objectives and OKRs.

• Support teams in effectively communicating WiNUK’s impact through reports, sponsorship materials, funding applications, presentations, events and external communications.

• Lead the development of annual impact reports (e.g. WiNUK Wrapped Blog), collecting the monthly impact statistics together and considering these in context of WiNUK’s OKRs. 

• Delegate relevant tasks to subteam members and collaborate closely with other subteams. 

 

Collaboration

• Collaborate with the Strategy Team to ensure impact data informs organisational planning and decision-making.

• Work with the Partnerships, Sponsorships and Grants team to identify and communicate metrics for external partners, sponsors and funders.

• Work with the Content & Marketing Team to support communication of impact findings through blogs, campaigns, and reports.

 

You'd be a good fit if you are:

• Comfortable providing direction and taking ownership of activities.

• Able to collect, analyse, and interpret data to demonstrate organisational outcomes and impact.

• Able to identify meaningful metrics, interpret findings and support evidence-based decision-making

• Able to coordinate multiple activities, deadlines and reporting requirements effectively

• Able to work effectively with volunteers, Head of Department and other subteams.

• Able to maintain reliable records, reporting systems & impact data.

• Able to identify gaps in data collection or evaluation processes & develop practical solutions.

• Knowledgeable of or a desire to learn to ensure personal data is handled appropriately, e.g. in survey responses.

• Consistently engaged, including checking Slack at least every 48 hours where possible to support timely responses.

• Committed to helping WiNUK maximise its impact by ensuring decisions and plans are informed by evidence and evaluation.

Supports WiNUK’s organisation-wide impact evaluation by tracking metrics. This may include Events, Social Media, Blog, Website, Newsletter, Partnerships and other WiNUK activities. The role brings these metrics together into consistent, up-to-date impact records and helps turn them into meaningful insights that can be communicated internally, to sponsors and partners, and to the wider WiNUK community.

 

Focus

Impact measurement and evaluation, data collection and analysis, organisational reporting, cross-team collaboration, communicating WiNUK’s impact through meaningful insights and reporting.

 

Responsibilities

Impact Tracking

• Log impacts monthly for assigned subteams into the central impact tracking spreadsheet.

• Maintain accurate, consistent, and up-to-date records in accordance with agreed reporting standards.

• Track relevant metrics based on current WiNUK priorities, strategic objectives and available data.

• Ensure reporting periods and metric definitions remain standardised to enable comparison and aggregation over time.

 

Analysis & Insight

• Analyse trends and patterns across assigned subteams to identify successes, opportunities, and areas for improvement.

• Compare metrics over time to help evaluate organisational growth, engagement, reach, partnerships and programme effectiveness.

• Develop practical, evidence-based recommendations to support continuous improvement across WiNUK activities.

 

Cross-Team Communication

• Collaborate with the Impact Lead and relevant subteam leads to identify appropriate metrics and data collection methods.

• Follow up on missing data where appropriate and escalate recurring reporting challenges to subteam lead.

• Communicate with relevant subteam Leads/Coordinators to understand the context behind significant changes in performance.

• Support teams in understanding impact metrics, reporting requirements, and the value of effective impact measurement. This could include advice on adjusting their strategies to bring their deliverables more in line with WiNUK’s OKRs.

 

Reporting

• Support monthly summaries of impact across assigned teams and areas.

• Support Impact Lead with the development of WiNUK Wrapped, sponsorship and event impact reports, and other impact-focused communications: contributing relevant metrics, insights, and highlights to the write up.

• Support the Impact Lead by identifying impactful data, case studies, and achievements that can be shared with sponsors, partners, funders and the wider community.

• Assist with organisation-wide evaluation activities, including the annual volunteer and community surveys.

 

Team Collaboration

• Work closely with the Impact Lead to ensure metrics are collected and reported consistently.

• Share relevant learning across the Impact Team, particularly where approaches used for one subteam could improve tracking elsewhere.

• Attend relevant Impact Team meetings (approximately monthly) and wider WiNUK volunteer meetings where possible.

• Respond to relevant Slack messages and requests within approximately 48 hours where possible.

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You'd be a good fit if you are:

• Comfortable working with a mixture of quantitative and qualitative information and identifying useful trends.

• Able to keep track of recurring metrics across several different WiNUK activities or teams.

• Confident communicating with volunteers from different teams and following up on information when required.

• Comfortable using or learning Google Sheets to record, organise and summarise data.

• Able to maintain accurate and consistent impact records.

• Interested in understanding what metrics mean rather than simply collecting figures.

• Able to summarise findings in an accessible way for people without an evaluation or analytics background.

• Able to maintain regular monthly tracking and contribute to agreed reporting deadlines.

• Comfortable working as part of the Impact Team while building positive relationships with other WiNUK subteams.

• Motivated to help WiNUK understand, demonstrate and improve the impact of its activities.

• Consistently engaged, including checking Slack at least every 48 hours where possible to support timely responses.

• Committed to helping WiNUK demonstrate its impact through accurate data collection and meaningful evaluation.