Job title:
Director of Impact & Learning
Salary
: Around £53,000
Location
: Hybrid working and flexibility around hours, where possible. You don’t have to be based in Gloucestershire, but this role works best when you’re close enough to build strong local relationships and develop a deep understanding of the county. Regular in-person time is essential — including stakeholder meetings, team sessions, and monthly collaboration days.
Reporting line:
CEO
Contract
: Full-time 37.5 hours
About Active Gloucestershire
Active Gloucestershire is an independent charity and one of 42 Active Partnerships across England, a national network working to reduce inequalities and create the conditions for more people to be active. Their focus is Gloucestershire: supporting people and communities across the county to live happier, healthier lives by reducing inactivity and making physical activity a natural part of everyday life.
They work with partners across sport, health and wellbeing, education, local government, and the voluntary and community sector to connect people, strengthen collaboration and support system change. As the backbone organisation for we can move
— Gloucestershire’s social movement for physical activity — they help align priorities, share learning and tackle the barriers that stop people from being active.
About the role
This new senior leadership role will help Active Gloucestershire make even better use of the learning generated across their projects, programmes and partnerships. By bringing insight, relationships and organisational learning together, they can make stronger decisions, target resources where they’re most needed and deepen their local influence — while contributing to national learning where it adds value.
You will help them clearly articulate the difference they make and support a confident learning culture where reflection is shared, practical and leads to meaningful action.
The Director of Impact & Learning should have these skills:
- Turning complex information into clear insight for different audiences
- Communicating in an authentic, accessible way and shaping a consistent narrative of impact
- Operating confidently at senior leadership level, with the presence to influence Boards, partners and system leaders
- Working confidently with senior stakeholders across sectors
- Collaborative leadership that brings people together across different work areas and builds shared ownership
- Supporting a team to develop confidence in evaluation, learning and reflection
- Sound judgement around data quality, ethics and governance
- Confidence using evidence and insight to guide external messaging, advocacy and influence - including ethical use of digital and AI tools
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead organisational insight and learning: bring together learning across work areas so it becomes usable, practical and influential — helping Active Gloucestershire make better decisions and shaping how they work.
- Shape impact communication : Line manage the Head of Communications and Marketing and help them share their impact consistently and meaningfully — telling their story more clearly: what difference they’re making, how, why it matters, and how they’re working with others to create change.
- Strengthen system influence: use evidence and relationships to support strategic conversations and change across local systems (and beyond).
- Contribute to senior leadership: play an active role on the senior leadership team, supporting inclusive leadership, governance, safeguarding, finance and organisational culture. Share responsibility for organisational performance, values and direction.
In your first 6 months, you’ll:
- Embed yourself quickly as part of the Senior Leadership Team — build trusted relationships across teams, the Board and key partners, and develop a clear understanding of Active Gloucestershire's core workstreams, major projects, business priorities and shared SLT responsibilities (governance, safeguarding, finance, organisational culture and values).
- Understand their learning culture and systems — familiarise yourself with their reflection frameworks, data systems and insight processes, and identify opportunities to strengthen how learning flows across the organisation and into leadership conversations.
- Map existing insight and learning — identify the data, stories, evaluation and lived experience they already hold, and agree a strategic approach to bringing it together to support organisational planning, influence and decision-making.
- Establish a clear rhythm for impact and reporting — align insight, storytelling and reporting with their 12 month business plans and their 2030 strategy. Ensure reporting to key funders and stakeholders is purposeful and evidence based, while spotting opportunities to use learning to influence system change.
- Clarify how insight informs organisational and system level decisions — help colleagues understand the “so what?” and use learning to shape what they prioritise, change or amplify. Strengthen how evidence informs strategic conversations with partners, funders and system leaders.
Working at Active Gloucestershire - what you’ll benefit from:
- Flexible working that supports balance: Hybrid working and flexibility around hours, where possible. Regular in-person time is essential — including stakeholder meetings, team sessions, and monthly collaboration days.
- A collaborative, values led culture: A supportive team environment that welcomes different experiences and ways of thinking.
- Learning and development that grows with you: A personal development budget, regular reviews, and opportunities to learn with colleagues, partners and the wider Active Partnership network.
- Wellbeing and work–life support: Weekly paid Wellbeing Hour, Birthday Leave, additional long service leave, a 10 year thank you hamper, and access to wellbeing and mental health support.
- Small touches that make a big difference: Use of their office bike, ergonomic equipment, and celebrations that recognise milestones and achievements.
How to apply and what happens next:
Active Gloucestershire is partnering with level= to run a fair, inclusive recruitment process using an anonymised, work sample task approach (no CV screening). When you register your interest, you’ll automatically receive a candidate job pack with full details of the process and timelines.
The process will include:
- Submit your CV to register interest by: Friday 6th March, 12pm. You’ll receive an automatic email within 24 hours with a link to the Job Pack (including full process details).
- Complete the anonymised work sample tasks by: Monday 9th March, 12pm
- Stage 1 interviews (online): Monday 23rd & Tuesday 24th March
- Stage 2 interviews (in-person): Monday 30th & Tuesday 31st March
If you need any support with your application (including reasonable adjustments), you can request this at any stage from level=. Active Gloucestershire welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and they value different experiences that strengthen their team and their impact.
