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Knowledge and Insights Manager

  • Full time or Part time
  • £40,000 – £46,000
  • Hybrid: Bellshill (3 days office/WFH)
  • Closing 11th June 2024


  • Advertised from 29th May 2024
  • This role is available as either a full-time (38 hrs/week) position, or 0.84 FTE (32 hours worked over 4 days/week). In the latter case, the salary will be reduced pro rata.

Role

This is an opportunity to join one of Scotland’s leading family-owned businesses in a distinctive role supporting its charitable giving programme through the William Grant Foundation.

Learning is at the heart of everything we do at the Foundation. In this new role, you’ll ensure that we’re making best use of evidence and insight to advance our work as a thoughtful and collaborative grant-maker. Working closely with our small team and family stakeholders, you’ll work flexibly across our broad portfolio to apply existing knowledge and facilitate internal data analysis, reflection and sense-making to ensure we perform our role as an independent funder as effectively as we can.

You'll be responsible for:

  • Empowering our giving groups: Collaborate with our two Partnerships & Learning Managers to ensure decision-making within our thematic giving groups reflects our growing understanding of the causes we give to and how change happens. Conduct research, commission studies, and curate relevant insights to support the development of their strategies and approach.
  • Building a knowledge hub: Design and implement a user-friendly knowledge management system. Identify and integrate digital tools to streamline knowledge capture, analysis and sharing. Foster a learning culture and embed knowledge management practices.
  • Facilitating knowledge exchange: Partner with colleagues to develop learning events with grantees and cultivate knowledge exchange across our internal groups and with external partners. Support the team to implement our "learning out loud" strategy by managing communication platforms and monitoring their effectiveness.
  • Focusing on effectiveness: Support the development of a framework to help us monitor and evaluate our performance, and manage related data analysis and reporting. Lead the refinement of our grantee feedback system and the ongoing analysis of its results. Leverage our own grant-making data to inform future decisions and learning.

You will bring experience of designing and leading work to generate and apply learning and evidence, and facilitating reflection and sense-making, ideally in public services, civil society and/or the social or environmental sectors. Your understanding of the principles of knowledge management and familiarity with related tools, practices and processes mean you’ll be capable of designing and building our organisational capacity and capability in this area. And your excellent communication skills mean you are adept at creating engaging reports, presentations and content across a variety of media, both as an editor and contributor. Subject knowledge about one or more of our areas of interest would be ideal, but more important is your curiosity and interest in how change happens and the role that funding can play in achieving it and your creative, versatile and collaborative approach to getting things done.

Organisation profile

William Grant & Sons is a 100% family-owned premium spirits company with a portfolio of award-winning brands that are enjoyed worldwide. The William Grant Foundation was set up in 2014 to manage and direct the company’s charitable giving. The company has committed to set aside 1% of pre-tax profits for use by the Foundation. In 2024, the Foundation expects to distribute over £4.5million to a wide range of good causes in Scotland. Find out more at williamgrantfoundation.org.uk

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