Description
The role of Innovation Manager is to support complex change by bringing energy, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of innovation projects.
The role primarily supports project delivery, drawing on skills and practices relating to problem definition, scoping and planning, research and analysis, project management, and reflecting and learning.
The post-holder will work on several external projects at one time, including a mixture of shorter-term projects (of circa six to twelve weeks), and projects within longer-term programmes of activity (circa twelve months).
The post-holder is responsible for shaping and overseeing the delivery of projects, working with significant self-direction; and for providing support to successfully manage the completion of the project to time and within the allocated resources.
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate behaviours that live our organisational values of collaboration, courage, quality, and impact
- Show a commitment to learning, self-reflection, appraisal, and development, including undertaking a Personal Development Plan annually
- Operate in an environment of significant complexity and ambiguity, taking time to understand the context of the operating environment and demonstrating good judgement
- Exhibit a curiosity about the work going on across the organisation, and share with others, internally and externally, impactful work that ICHP supports to enable innovation and resolve complex problems
- Actively seek to participate in available project opportunities, with an approximate expectation of being involved in project work for up to 80-85% of your time
Requirements:
- Demonstrable commitment to the organisation's values: collaboration, courage, quality and impact
- Commitment to quality, promoting high standards and consistently improving patient outcomes
- Problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills to produce reports, letters, presentations, spreadsheets and email correspondence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence to communicate effectively with different audiences
- Ability to work autonomously, making appropriate decisions and seeking management support when required
Benefits:
- Competitive salary: £66,274 to £73,496 a year per annum incl. HCAS
- Permanent contract
- Full-time working pattern