Are you passionate about driving innovation and making a real impact? We’re looking for an Innovation Manager to join our Strategy and Innovation Team. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead and support innovation projects that will drive impact in key impact areas such as ‘Getting Around’ or ‘Skills and Tools for Modern Life’.

As Innovation Manager, you’ll use agile methodologies and design thinking to plan and run sprints, and you’ll work to support colleagues across the business with Innovation projects. You will play a vital role in embedding a culture of innovation across the organisation and may also need to work with external stakeholders.

This is a permanent contract, and will be suitable for homeworking, or hybrid working at any of our RNIB offices across the UK.

More information on the role can be found in the attached job description.

Essential criteria

• Agile project management experience designing and running sprints from initial problem/ opportunity identification, through research and development and into piloting to get proof of concept, launch and beyond (handover / go to market plans)
• Adopts an Insight-led, evidence-based approach
• Experience of Horizon scanning, market research, competitor analysis, audience insight, ideation, prototyping and user testing.
• Familiarity with design thinking and agile principles
• Well-developed resource investigation skills and tenacity
• Problem solving and creative thinking skills

What We Offer

RNIB prides itself on being a great place to work with a positive, progressive culture. We offer a wide range of benefits including 26 days of holiday per year (plus bank holidays) which rises with service, enhanced family friendly benefits, a contributory pension scheme with an employer contribution of up to 11% and a rewards platform with employee discounts across over 800 retailers.

For more information on our available benefits, please visit our Benefits of Working at RNIB page.

How to Apply

If you’d like to apply for this opportunity, please apply online, uploading your CV and supporting statement, telling us how you meet the essential criteria in the person specification