Impact & Performance Officer

About the job:

Are you a strategic thinker with a talent for translating complex data into stories of real-world impact? Join the Belfast Region City Deal team to lead performance tracking, benefits realisation and impact measurement across our Belfast Region City Deal (BRCD) portfolio.

Based within the BRCD Directorate at Queen's, you won't just track numbers, you will shape the narrative and evidence-base about how innovation transforms Northern Ireland. Working across Queen's flagship Innovation Centres and interacting across the University and externally, you will bridge data and strategy. Using your sharp analytical skills and collaborative mindset, you'll turn quantitative and qualitative data into clear, actionable insights, identifying emerging trends, risks, and opportunities.

If you thrive on solving complex problems, building collaborative frameworks, and proving the real-world value of innovation, this is your platform to make a lasting mark.

About the person:

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet, the following essential criteria:

Degree or equivalent qualification with a focus on data analysis, business management or economics-related field. In the absence of a relevant degree, consideration will be given to applicants who can demonstrate substantial recent relevant experience in a similar post.Significant recent relevant experience with programme / project management, impact evaluation, benefits realisation or business performance monitoring and reporting.Experience working collaboratively across teams to drive development of streamlined, digitally enabled monitoring and reporting processes and outputs, holding responsibility for workstreams or ownership of specific elements of the process.Experience analysing and synthesising complex quantitative and qualitative information from multiple sources, identifying trends, issues, risks and opportunities and translating findings into actionable insights, options and recommendations to support decision-making and strategic objectives.Experience working within complex governance structures to progress actions and ensure clear decision making and ownership.Comprehensive IT literacy and up to date knowledge of relevant systems such as or Power BI to maintain dashboards and tailored reporting.This is not an exhaustive list. To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information on our website.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more on our website.

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit our website.

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application.