Director of Insight and Evidence

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential. At Nest, you'll have access to a range of learning opportunities to learn, grow and build the skills you need to be successful in your role and career. Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role. Flexible and agile working Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work compressed hours
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  Organisational leadership: Significant leadership experience in a mission-led, research, policy, innovation or impact-focused organisation, contributing beyond your own functional specialism to organisational strategy, culture and performance.
• Intellectual and strategic leadership: An exceptional ability to make sense of complex evidence, identify what matters, connect insights across different sources and translate them into strategic implications and priorities.
• Evidence and insight development: Substantial experience leading a complex programme of research, evidence or insight, with sufficient breadth of research understanding to set direction, ask the right questions and provide credible challenge to technical specialists.
• Influence and communication: A strong record of turning complex evidence into clear, compelling propositions capable of influencing senior decision-makers in policy, industry or practice.
• Leadership of expert teams: A track record of leading, motivating and developing high-performing multidisciplinary teams, including people with deeper technical expertise than your own.
• Impact orientation: Demonstrable experience using evidence to contribute to changes in policy, practice, markets, products or services, rather than seeing publication as the end point of research.
• Partnership working: Strong experience of building senior external relationships and delivering through partnerships across organisational or sector boundaries. Understanding of and the ability to work with commercial organisations to design and deliver public benefit projects and outcomes
• Judgement and assurance: The judgement to maintain appropriate standards of research quality, ethics and governance while balancing rigour, pace, cost, opportunity and impact.
  
  What if your research could do more than explain a problem and actually help change the system behind it? As Director of Insight and Evidence at the Centre for Inclusive Money, you'll shape how we understand the financial lives of low and moderate-income households and importantly, turn that understanding into action.
You will play a key role in the leadership of Inclusive Money, with collective responsibility for the strategy, success and sustainability of the Centre. With accountability for our research programme, you will ensure that Inclusive Money is an evidence-led organisation, leading a talented multidisciplinary research team and providing the intellectual leadership that connects complex evidence to a clear story about what works, why it matters and what should happen next. We're looking for an inclusive, curious leader who can bring clarity to complexity, challenge thinking and inspire experts around them. You don't need to be the deepest technical specialist in every research discipline. What matters is your ability to lead great research, see the bigger picture and make sure evidence ultimately translates into meaningful change., The Centre for Inclusive Money was founded by Nest, the workplace pension provider built to give everyday workers somewhere good to save - already supporting more than 14 million people to plan for the future. We work with a wide range of organisations to explore, test and scale new ideas in the real world.