Consultant Inclusive Growth and Climate Change

Location: Itad, Hove. This is a hybrid role; please note travel to the office would be expected for key company and team events.

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: £29,000 - £37,000 per annum, depending on your experience.

You will already have the right to live and work in the UK and be able to undertake national and international travel when conditions allow.

Closing date: To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter by 02 March 2023.

Interview date: TBC

About the role:

We are looking for a dynamic and ambitious Consultant to join our Inclusive Growth and Climate Change practice.

You will be joining a team who are passionate about having a positive impact on people and the planet through the support we provide clients to use evidence. Your role will involve the technical delivery of our monitoring, evaluation and learning projects and supporting business development activities to continue to grow our portfolio.

You will have the opportunity to work across the portfolio relevant to your experience and interests. You will contribute to the successful delivery and management of projects, build and own relationships with key client stakeholders, contribute to business development activities, share learning through knowledge products and, where possible, external conferences and events, and be a part of maintaining our excellent reputation with our external teams and clients.

The core technical strengths of all our consultants are focused around four key areas:

• Evidence Advocate: generating robust evidence and using this to support clients and shape global debates;
• Change Agent: supporting clients in reflecting, learning and managing change;
• Project Manager: contributing to and building high performing project teams that deliver quality and commercial targets;
• Trusted Advisor: building long term relationships with clients and partners that add value and deliver commercial success.

As an evidence advocate, you will use a range of data and analysis tools to produce evidence-based findings using a logical and structured approach.

As a change agent, you will effectively analyse and interpret data to support evidence-based discussions and use strong client-facing skills to support and inform key messages.

As a project manager, you will develop effective workplans and clearly communicate expectations and timelines to project teams, ensuring that team members have what they need, when they need it to meet their project roles.

As a trusted advisor, you will liaise with clients on specific projects, supporting their use of monitoring, evaluation and learning deliverables. You will contribute to bidding processes, developing bespoke proposals that meet (potential) client requirements.

About you:

You will have experience within monitoring, evaluation and learning within at least one relevant thematic area covered by the practice.

Experience of working in a consultancy environment would be desirable, with experience across the full lifecycle from bidding to delivery and understand the commercial drivers that sit behind this both for the client and Itad.

About the Team:

Inclusive Growth and Climate Change recognises the threats posed by climate change and inequality. We see that these threats are global and have the potential to reverse hard-fought development gains. We believe the transformative change needed to address these threats must be based on a robust understanding of what works and why.

Our support to clients encompasses a range of economic development and climate change projects including; climate finance, impact investing and innovative finance, markets systems development, agriculture, natural resource management / nature-based solutions, private sector development, resilience, social business and supply chains, financial inclusion, youth employment, infrastructure and cities and women’s economic empowerment.

Benefits:

We offer:

• A matched company pension up to 5%.
• 26 days holiday per year, plus a further 3 flexible days and public holidays which you can take whenever you want to.
• A comprehensive learning and development programme
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme

Our office is easily accessible, close to public transport and dog friendly.

About Itad:

Itad is a leading international development consultancy firm providing advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments. We have a 35-year track record of providing our global clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people’s lives.

Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around four Practice areas including Inclusive Growth and Climate Change, Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (FCAS), Human Development, and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.

Our projects range from designing complex MEL systems for major global initiatives, to providing strategic advice to programmes and organisations to conducting long-term impact evaluations. Our focus is on providing the insight and ideas to ensure that the resources invested in international development have the greatest possible beneficial impact on people and the planet.

We are a values-based organisation and integrate and embed these into all aspects of our work.

Applying for the role:

We know that there are great candidates who may not fit everything we have described above, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

The role is based in our offices in Brighton & Hove (East Sussex) but you don’t need to be in the office every day, we work on a hybrid basis where travel to the office is expected for key company and team events.  However, you will already have the right to live and work in the UK.

At Itad, we are committed to actively promoting diversity, equality and inclusion to empower people both within our organisation and through our work. We know that employees with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences make us a more effective and innovative company and we therefore welcome and encourage applications from interested candidates regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

All of Itad’s company software is compatible with Zoom Text Magnifier/Reader.

Successful candidates will already have the right to live and work in the UK.

Itad are unable to sponsor applicants for work visas in this role.

To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter by the deadline of 02 March 2023.