Senior Innovation Portfolio Officer
Motability, United Kingdom

Are you passionate about innovation and have experience in managing multiple projects? If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are seeking a Senior Innovation Portfolio Officer to join our growing Performance and Innovation team to support with the set-up and implementation of new systems and processes across our Innovation team.

Working closely with the whole team, you will support the delivery of technical tasks within innovation projects including monitoring and updating the progress of projects, coordinating diaries and preparing meeting materials. Alongside this, you will work closely with the Innovation Portfolio Manager to help gather information for carrying out due diligence for innovation contracts, partnerships or grant giving.

You will be required to manage a busy and varying workload so previous experience within a project management role is essential, ideally within the charity sector. The ability is scope, understand and carry out tasks is a must have as you will be supporting the delivery of various projects.

Additionally, you will be working with colleagues within the Innovation Team but also with key stakeholders across Motability, therefore you will need to be a strong team player with excellent collaborative skills.

At Motability we fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year.

We award grants to other charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Benefits

WHAT MOTABILITY CAN OFFER YOU

A career with Motability can offer you so much more than earning potential. We pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits and a culture to match, some of which includes;

Holiday 26 Days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service

Health and Wellbeing We offer private health care with BUPA alongside an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and discounted corporate gym membership. We take your physical AND Mental Health seriously, with our dedicated mental health first aiders you will have support and understanding from your colleagues.

Family Friendly We offer enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay and we understand that families require flexibility, we provide time off for dependants, flexible working hours and the option to work from home. Life Assurance is 4 x your salary.

Diversity and Inclusion - We value everyone’s unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves, no matter their age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity or otherwise. This is embedded in to our values and we celebrate our differences and create awareness throughout the year.

Celebrating Success We love to recognise people that go above and beyond with our Spotlight Award as well as having team celebrations and social events throughout the year.

Our culture - In the Motability office we dress for our day, it’s an incredibly welcoming and inclusive environment where we look to support your career, we offer a mini bus service from Harlow Town centre and station for those using public transport to reach us and there are plenty of free hot beverages for when you arrive.

Pension Up to 15%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%

To find out more regarding the vacancy and for full details on how to apply, please visit our website: https://apply.workable.com/motability/

Alternatively, contact our Talent Team for more information at:

We are a disability confident employer, feel free to make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you might need.

Due to the number of applications we will only contact those candidates who are successful. Please note, we will be interviewing on a rolling basis therefore would encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested.

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