Interim Impact and Sustainability Consultant: LifeArc
Interim Impact and Sustainability Consultant
The Organisation
LifeArc helps transform promising science into medical interventions that improve human health and benefit society. As an independent, self-funded charity, LifeArc has been bridging the gaps in biomedical innovation for 25 years.
Now with a secure financial base of £1 billion, it aims to increase its role in helping the UK’s life sciences community to thrive.
LifeArc aims to transform the way diseases are identified and treated, creating life-changing breakthroughs for patients and enduring benefits for society. To do this, it will need to work in different ways and form new partnerships across industry, academia, research organisation and not for profits.
By combining is translational offerings in science, advice and funding, with its partners’ expertise it intends to focus on complex healthcare challenges and push the best ideas beyond the lab and into the real world.
The Opportunity
By the time 2030 arrives, LifeArc’s ambition is to be globally recognised for transforming the way diseases are identified and treated. The Corporate Affairs Team will play a critical role in supporting and making this ambition a reality.
Reporting to the Head of Corporate Affairs, the Impact and Sustainability Consultant will be instrumental in developing, articulating, and monitoring LifeArc’s impact and social responsibility objectives.
Main responsibilities
- Working in line with the UN sustainability development goals, you will review LifeArc’s current impact and sustainability goals and work across the organisation to create an impact roadmap to track and evaluate against its agreed measures
- Lead on non-financial external reporting, tracking appropriate targets and data to make informed recommendations on LifeArc’s approach to managing its impact and progress. You will translate this information in a way to create impact stories to help shape the knowledge of impact and CSR thinking into LifeArc’s company culture
- You will support all functions to educate employees on the importance of socially responsible/integrated decision making into LifeArc’s strategy, to ensure a company-wide buy-in to the agreed impact roadmap
Key skills and experience required
- You must have previous experience working in or with the charity sector on impact reporting guidance, with demonstrable experience of leading CSR/ESG reporting projects
- You will have effective and proven communications and leadership skills and feel confident in engaging and influencing senior internal stakeholders
- You should have the ability to synthesise, analyse, translate complex information and data, and be able to present it in engaging ways to employees
- You will have strong project management skills and be able to manage multiple programmes of work, constantly reviewing and evaluating their efficacy
- Previous experience or degree in CSR and/or ESG, with experience in life sciences research is desirable
The successful candidate has an opportunity to join and make a great contribution to an organisation that has global patient impact at its core.
In addition to a collaborative and collegiate work environment, LifeArc offers an excellent range of benefits and competitive salary including a discretionary bonus, health and life insurance. Ellwood Atfield are delighted to have partnered exclusively with LifeArc to recruit their new Interim Impact and Sustainability Consultant.
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Ellwood Atfield and LifeArc are committed to a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds. For diversity and monitoring purposes, please complete the equal opportunities monitoring form which can be found here and return to hello@ellwoodatfield.com
To apply for this role, please submit your CV and Covering Letter by following the link below.
Closing date: 9am Monday 7th June 2021
First stage interviews: w/c 14th June 2021
Second stage interviews: w/c 21st June 2021