2 x Analyst Roles

37.5 hours per week, £30,000

The Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC) is an international social impact consultancy dedicated to helping foundations, social enterprises, corporates and charities maximise their social impact. 

We work with big and small organisations across the UK and around the globe, with our expertise in impact evaluation, social investment, diversity and inclusion, and income generation strategies. We have offices in London, Hong Kong, Accra and Bangalore, and experience delivering projects in over 20 countries. 

We are a small consultancy, committed to driving change across sectors. Over the past years, we have been pushing the agenda around diversity in the social investment sector and introduced innovative methodologies and toolkits, such as USERS: Putting users’ voices at the heart of Evaluation and The Diversity Forum Toolkit: Practical resources.

We build our organisation with and around our people, who are our most valuable asset. In 2021, TSIC was no. 6 in Escape the City’s list of best companies to escape to, among the 100 organisations that are leading the way in putting their people and our planet first – and we keep evolving to be an equitable and inclusive place where people feel proud to work. We are a founding B Corp in the UK and hold ourselves to high environmental, social and governance standards.  

It’s a particularly exciting time to join the organisation (we know that most job descriptions say that, but it actually is!) – we’re growing more than ever before, and we’re exploring innovative new business models for our global organisation. Bringing about a more equitable world means we have to disrupt the status quo, and we want to model new ways of doing things, both developing new methodologies and approaches to our consultancy work, and building a more equitable, non-hierarchical organisation at TSIC.

So, anyone that joins us needs to be comfortable working in a changing, forward-thinking environment that’s fast-paced. You’ll need to be happy taking initiative and working autonomously, but this means you’ll enjoy flexibility and the opportunity to deliver exciting and strategic work creatively.

We have four values that we live by in our work:

• Thought-provoking and challenging 

Whilst we are client-focused we maintain an independent perspective, prompting questions that challenge conventional thinking. We want to be a breath of fresh air for our clients. Often ahead of the curve we pursue system-changing solutions.

• Honesty and humility 

We are authentic and live our truth, acting with integrity. We are not afraid to speak truth to power but we are also not afraid to admit our own mistakes and learn.

• Impact over profit 

We believe that profits go hand in hand with impact, but if we have to choose, we will always prioritise impact over profits. Informed by our team’s deep commitment to and experience in social change, we always want to do the right thing. 

• Warmth 

We build long-lasting relationships with our clients and collaborators based on being kind, positive, supportive and having shared visions and values.

The role

We are looking for an Analyst to join our small and dynamic team. Working closely with Consultant and Senior Consultant colleagues, you will have an opportunity to work with a broad range of corporate and third sector clients, as well as contribute to new approaches for increasing the impact of our work. You will work across our main areas of work:

• Social impact measurement and evaluation – we help foundations, corporates, charities, social enterprises and impact investors to understand their impact and how to improve.
• Diversity, equity and inclusion – we work with cross-sector clients to embed diversity, equity and inclusion principles into their work, for example by assessing their current practices, and providing recommendations and models for building more equitable programmes and workplaces.
• Impact investing – we provide advisory and consultancy support to investors who wish to invest in programmes that have positive environment, social and governance outcomes, alongside profit.

With our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we want the sector to better reflect and understand the people it sets out to serve. We believe that this change needs to start within our own team. We are looking for self-starting and curious minds with a strong interest in the social sector and social enterprises.

We are particularly keen to interview candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and with lived experience of social issues, and we particularly value lived and personal experience as well as professional experience. We don’t expect you to have experience in a consultancy environment or to be expert in impact evaluation. However, we expect you to have a commitment to developing solid skills in research and a can-do attitude.

We want a person who is relaxed enough to be human, humble enough to learn, ideas-y enough to have creative thoughts and who works very hard to make change happen. You’ll be joining a diverse team of passionate people with varied backgrounds and experience, and will work within and contribute to an environment focused on learning and development.

Key responsibilities and success criteria

Consultancy project support Support projects and build positive client relationships across a range of corporate and third sector clients. This will usually include undertaking qualitative and quantitative research activities, using participatory research techniques, and designing and delivering reports and presentations tailored to clients’ needs.

Success criteria: Project activities are successfully delivered, building your experience so that we deliver to a market-leading standard, receiving positive feedback from clients and demonstrating tangible impact.

Organisational contribution

• Contribute to the success of our TSIC strategy and business plan
• Take part in our organisational meetings and activities, and contribute to a positive working environment, living our values in all we do
• Support colleagues on project administration and delivery as needed
• Support the rest of the team with the basic functions of running a small business

Success criteria: Contribute positively to TSIC’s strategy, business plan and culture, building strong relationships with colleagues. Work collaboratively to support colleagues across our projects.

Learning, development, innovation, well-being and pro bono work

Engage in both independent and team learning and development opportunities, sharing across our team. Develop work into publishable reports, and further the impact of our work by contributing to new methodologies and approaches. All our team have a learning and development budget, and spend 3% of their time on pro bono work of their choosing. We have weekly learning chats, led by different members of the team, and weekly well-being sessions.

Success criteria: Invest time in your own wellbeing and learning and development work, sharing this across our team. Contribute to the development of new methodologies and approaches to our work. Spend 3% of your time on pro bono work of your choice.

How to apply

Please submit your application by Monday 7th August at 9am by hitting Apply.

There are four open-ended questions (we ask for not more than 1200 characters including spaces, but don’t worry if it goes over a little!) in the application, as below.   

1. Tell us about the last project (e.g., at work, at university, in a volunteer position) that you worked on. What were the goals of the project? How did you go about conducting the project? What methodology did you use? How did you involve team members and other stakeholders in the research? 
2. Tell us about one of your latest achievements. Why are you proud of it? How did you achieve it? What challenges did you encounter and how did you overcome them? 
3. Tell us about your experience with the social sector, as a user, volunteer or employee. What knowledge and skills do you think you gain from the experience that will help you succeed in the position as an Analyst at TSIC? 
4. Share an area that you have been working on for your personal improvement or development (e.g., behavioural, technical or professional knowledge and skills). How did you identify it as an area for development? What have you been doing / done to improve this area? What has been the outcome? 

We are happy to consider other forms of applying – please contact Lucy at [email removed - click apply for more details] to let us know your preferences. We will decide on the assessment stages and the order of these stages once we have shortlisted.

The assessment may include: 

• First round interview, held virtually on a weekday with options outside office hours (in the early mornings or evenings), lasting around 40 minutes.  
• A written task, lasting between 1-2 hours.
• Second round interview, lasting around 40 minutes, on a weekday with options outside office hours (in the early mornings or evenings). In person will be preferable but dependent on candidate’s availability and location. We will pay travel costs for in-person interviews.
• A trial day, which you will be compensated for, to work with our team from 9.30am to 6pm GMT.

We hope the candidate can start ASAP but we will adjust our start date based on the candidate’s preferences.

Our recruitment process commitments

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all candidates irrespective of race, age, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or belief, or marital or civil partnership status. We recognise and value lived and personal experience as well as professional experience when assessing applications. We will assess all applications against the requirements for this post as detailed in the job description.

We are Disability Confident Committed; we welcome and respond positively to applications from disabled people and will guarantee an interview to any candidate with a disability who meets the minimum requirements for the role. Please indicate this within your application if this applies to you – you do not need to share any details about your disability at this stage.

We will meet individual needs throughout the recruitment process, including making any appropriate reasonable adjustments during the interview stage and to our workplace if selected into post to support colleagues with any form of disability. As a Mindful Employer we recognise that in the UK, people experiencing mental ill health continue to report stigma and discrimination. We are committed to creating a supportive and open culture, where colleagues are able to talk about mental health. We are also committed to ensuring that our employees feel safe in disclosing any mental health conditions and confident that they will be properly supported and offered reasonable adjustments when required.

Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas for this role in the UK, so you will need the permission to work in the UK in order to apply to this role on a fixed term contract basis. However, we would still like to hear from you if you don’t have permission to work in the UK, as there may be opportunity to either be based in one of our global offices, or offer work on a freelance basis.

If you have any questions about how TSIC is an equal opportunities employer please contact Lucy at [email removed - click apply for more details].