Principal Analyst - Impact
Principal Analyst - Impact
Apply locations 2 Whitehall Quay time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: January 9, 2025 (16 days left to apply) job requisition id JR100205
Shape the Future with the National Wealth Fund
At the National Wealth Fund, our mission is to swiftly and effectively mobilise trusted sector insights and investment expertise to unlock billions in private finance for projects across the United Kingdom. Providing £27.8bn of capital and an expanded mandate, we are ready to help the market invest with confidence, continue to drive forward the Government's growth ambitions.
We are looking for skilled and results-oriented individuals who are motivated to help us build the National Wealth Fund into an industry-leading institution.
Job Purpose
The successful candidate will oversee the monitoring and reporting processes for NWF’s deals from an impact perspective. This includes coordinating with policy and communications colleagues to build compelling impact stories and enhance the Fund’s communications content.
You will work closely with the Portfolio Management team, who monitor the financial performance of projects, to build relationships and develop ways of working that ensure impact is appropriately considered and integrated as projects progress.
Your responsibilities will include coordinating the pipeline of annual reviews from an impact perspective, ensuring timely and high-quality inputs. You will also collaborate with the communications team to best represent NWF's impact story, leading efforts to collect relevant data for communications and producing strong impact stories at the deal, sector, and portfolio levels.
As a sector lead, you will conduct ex-ante deal impact and ESRG analysis and assessments for annual reviews.
Additionally, you will manage Impact’s relationship with the Project Management Office to ensure concise and well-managed project execution for the team.
Core accountabilities:
1. 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 monitoring, reporting, evaluation and learning on the impact of the NWF’s work.
2. Oversight of the Fund’s Impact Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, ensuring NWF appropriately monitors the extent to which expected impacts are occurring and is extracting relevant learnings.
3. Lead on developing communication products of impact’s work, working closely with the wider Impact and policy team to ensure strong content, format, and style for telling NWF’s impact story. Engage with relevant government departments and external experts.
4. Act as the point person for the Impact team working closely with the Portfolio Management team to ensure that Impact, additionality, and ESRG are fully embedded in the ex post monitoring and reporting process for NWF. Also supporting impact reports within annual reviews and ex post sector assessments.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Be a team player and peer-review the analysis and assessment undertaken by other analysts in the function.
Essential Experience:
1. Use and application of economic techniques in appraisal, monitoring, and evaluation in a policy and delivery environment, undertaking analysis using a range of data and evidence and communicating this in a clear and succinct way.
2. Proven ability to work with, influence, and navigate stakeholders including commercial partners, academia, or government departments.
3. Outstanding communication skills, both in writing and in person, including the ability to write concisely and compellingly; able to synthesize complex issues and data in an easy-to-understand manner and focus on the most relevant information.
4. General analytical techniques, including use of Excel.
5. Excellent inter-personal skills and the desire to form and maintain high-quality relationships to shape policy decisions.
Desirable skills and experience:
1. Experience and/or knowledge of infrastructure finance, infrastructure project development, including (but not exclusive to energy technologies, energy transition, regional development projects, water, waste transport or ICT).
2. Experience of working on communications activities for an organisation.
3. Entrepreneurial, curious, and motivated candidates with a professional, positive attitude with the ability to contribute to a growing work area that thrives on teamwork and collaboration.
4. Excellent problem-solving skills, including the ability to respond to problems with an open mind and propose pragmatic solutions.
5. Excellent research skills, and the ability to deliver high-quality outputs using the best available evidence.
6. Line management experience and broader task management experience.
7. An ability to balance longer-term strategic analysis with short-term workload in the context of a scale-up environment that is not always set in stone.
8. Resilience and the ability to remain calm in changing situations.
9. Experience of presenting data and analytics through relevant packages e.g. Power BI.
Professional Qualifications:
Must hold a 2:2 degree or above, in a subject with a significant quantitative element, including economics and data analytics or equivalent experience.
To apply, please submit a CV and covering letter. We welcome applications from a wide range of applicants and are looking for positive contributions to the team.
A career with us offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact and work on cutting-edge technologies that will drive the UK’s future. We value diversity in our people and inclusion is at the heart of what we do.
We offer competitive benefits and unique learning opportunities from combining both private and public sector skills and experience. Please note, referencing and background checks are carried out for all roles here at the National Wealth Fund.
About us
The National Wealth Fund encourages a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified people. Inclusion is at the heart of what the Fund does. Diversity in the Fund's people and their ideas will be vital to the National Wealth Fund's success. Appointments will be made on merit, with regard to maintaining the breadth of experience and expertise required and reflecting diversity in the broadest sense, to embrace different perspectives, characteristics, and experience, as well as being broadly representative of the nations and regions of the UK.
Our roles are open to full-time, part-time or job-share applicants. Job-share applicants should supply individual CVs and a joint cover letter submitted with both applications.
As part of our standard hiring process, please be informed that a background check will be conducted for successful candidates in accordance with our company policy and industry best practices. Please note, that successful candidates will be offered a salary that is appropriate to their relevant experience and performance during the selection process.
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