Impact Delivery Manager

About the role

Join Imperial College London and Shape the Future of Large-Scale, Impact-Driven Interdisciplinary Research.

Are you passionate about driving real-world change through research? Do you thrive at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and societal impact? Are you motivated by the pressing societal challenges of our time – whether at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence, health and technology, environmental sustainability and/or new frontiers of space, security and telecoms? If so, we invite you to join Imperial College London as our Impact Delivery Manager for one of our Schools of Convergence Science.

We are building a team of impact-driven professionals with the skills and agility to turn research into real-world solutions. As we launch our pioneering Schools of Convergence Science – central to Imperial’s new Strategy – we are seeking Impact Delivery Managers to work with Co-Directors to take bold visions and turn them into measurable societal impact.

Announced as a key pillar of Imperial’s new Strategy, these four Schools will enhance our interdisciplinary research capacity, global visibility, talent attraction, and funding, driving societal impact in critical areas.

• Human and artificial intelligence - We envision AI that augments human intelligence and benefits everyone. Understanding how we think and learn helps us build better AI. Our goal is AI that is sustainable, trustworthy, and truly human-centered.
• Health and technology - We envision health and wellbeing for all, focused on prevention over treatment. Despite progress, challenges like chronic illness and inequality remain. Solving them requires bold, cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Sustainability - We envision a world where people live prosperously and meaningfully, in harmony with the planet. Our mission is to provide evidence and solutions for realistic, sustainable pathways, working closely with partners to drive change.
• Space, security and telecoms - We envision the convergence of these areas for the benefit of everyone, in the short and the long term, with a mission to protect, connect, and know our worlds.

This role will be supporting the Co-Directors to achieve their individual School’s impacts.

For more background and information on the Schools: Schools of Convergence Science | About | Imperial College London

What you would be doing

• Leading the co-development of an Impact Plan for one of the Schools in collaboration with Co-Directors, ensuring alignment with institutional strategy and societal priorities across commercialisation, policy influence, community engagement, and global partnerships.
• Working with the Co-Directors to design and embed impact pathways within research missions, fostering innovation ecosystems and inclusive knowledge exchange that translate academic outputs into real-world change.
• Embedding outcome-oriented planning and evaluation tools across School activities to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement in delivering societal, economic, and environmental impact.

What we are looking for

• A track record of designing, implementing, and embedding outcome-oriented planning and evaluation frameworks across large-scale research programmes, centres, or consortia. You will have direct experience aligning impact strategies ensuring that research activities are not only measurable but meaningfully contribute to real-world change.
• Subject-matter expertise in one of the Schools’ core thematic areas paired with the intellectual agility to support and engage across other interdisciplinary domains. You will be confident working with leading academics to understand and articulate the potential impact of complex research, and to tailor strategies that resonate with diverse stakeholders and funders.
• A deep commitment to enabling research that delivers tangible societal benefit.

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