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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In this role, you are accountable for:  

• Supporting the Wellbeing, Safeguarding and Social Impact Lead in the development and implementation of the NHSBSA social impact strategy in support of the wider Diversity and Inclusion, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, People and wider business strategy and corporate objectives.
• Researching, developing and implementing volunteering, fundraising and social impact policies, procedures, guidance and systems, which are consistent with national initiatives and the NHSBSA’s strategic direction.  Monitor, evaluate and review these for impact and effectiveness ensuring that they comply with relevant legislation, codes of practice and best practice.
• Ensuring compliance with all statutory and mandatory requirements around volunteering, fundraising c, advising on best practice within these fields, and ensuring that robust governance arrangements are in place to withstand scrutiny by relevant audit or inspection bodies.
• Working closely with the People Data Team and Digital directorate to design the organisation’s approach and data solution to measuring volunteering and fundraising and ensure this supports the demonstration of the organisation’s social impact.
• Identify and analyse social impact data to make recommendations and to support the development of the NHSBSA’s approach to social impact, taking an evidenced based approach.
• Working collaboratively with the wider organisation to identify, establish and maintaining excellent working relationships with external organisations, community groups and charities with the purpose of arranging volunteering events, fundraising opportunities and engagement events that enable NHSBSA colleagues to give something back to their local communities and charities and promotes the NHSBSA as an employer of choice.
• Working closely with the Learning and Organisation Development team to ensure the NHSBSA’s approaches to talent development maximises opportunities to increase skills sharing within local communities.
• Create strong links and work collaboratively with internal stakeholders such as the Talent Acquisition Team, Communications Team and Operational Leads to embed our approach to social impact across the wider organisation.
• Write high quality communications, presentations, reports guidance and other material with the aim of increasing engagement and awareness of social mobility and engaging senior leaders, Leadership Team and Heads of Service in this work.
• Establishing and managing engaging and innovative ways to support colleague engagement around fundraising, volunteering and community engagement.
• Evaluate and measure volunteering and fundraising impact achieved through the various programmes implemented, against the organisation’s aims.  
• Provide specialist advice to internal stakeholders (Project Management Office, Commercial Department etc) on social value through the analysis/impact assessment process that reflects legal requirements and the NHSBSA values around social impact.
• Work closely with the Environment Manager, Commercial Team and Project and Portfolio Directorate to ensure that social value is fully embedded throughout the NHSBSA business and policy change and procurement processes to ensure all opportunities for social impact are maximised.
• Designing and lead programmes of campaigns and events, working collaboratively with the Communications and Marketing team to develop a range of communications which increases colleague engagement around volunteering and fundraising and raise the profile of the NHSBSA through external promotion with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Working with the Wellbeing, Safeguarding and Social Impact Lead to identify and create a range of indicators for volunteering and fundraising to support the Leadership Team and Board to understand progress and offer insight into the organisation’s development, providing a robust baseline for this work.
• Analysing and interpreting complex information produced by a wide range of organisations and making recommendations for action, as well as producing detailed and complex reports, and presenting these as necessary to a wide range of audiences.  
• Providing specialist advice to the Leadership Team, Heads of Service, managers and colleagues on all volunteering and fundraising.
• Representing the NHSBSA in national and regional volunteering and fundraising groups and forums, developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Deputising for the Wellbeing, Safeguarding and Social Impact Lead where necessary.  
• Authorised signatory for volunteering, fundraising and social impact budgets. Has a thorough knowledge of, and adheres to at all times, the Authority's Standing Financial Instructions, Standing Orders and Purchasing procedures.