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Impact Officer - Northern Ireland

Job Requisition ID: 31761
Job Closing Date: 23 October 2025
Belfast, GBR, BT2 8HQ
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Children in Need
LOCATION: Belfast - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 28,700 - 35,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
BBC Children in Need exists to make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK. This role supports our mission to focus on funding inspiring ideas that provide effective and sustainable positive change for disadvantaged children and young people in Northern Ireland.
The successful applicant will play a significant role to meet the aims of Children in Need. They will manage a grant portfolio across Northern Ireland, working with local and national stakeholders to facilitate the development and delivery of solutions for change for children and young people.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Reporting into the Impact Manager, the Impact Officer will be the first point of contact for existing and newly funded organisations and will manage their own grant portfolio.
You will be integral to the grant making process and will provide support for these processes within the wider Impact Team and specifically in Northern Ireland. Alongside this you will play a key part in supporting the BBC Children in Need Appeal and this includes acting as a point of contact across the voluntary and community sector and for key stakeholders throughout the BBC, across the BBC Children in Need fundraising community and beyond.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Grant Making: Promote and support grant applications through outreach, advice, and feedback, including handling enquiries and supporting the full application process, including making grant recommendations.
• Grant Oversight: Manage a portion of the active grant portfolio, monitor reporting, and identify risks and learning opportunities.
• Relationship Building: Conduct project visits, foster deeper relationships with grantees, and apply a relational approach to support effective outcomes for children and young people.
• Team Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Actively participate in meetings, supervise volunteers, and maintain regular communication with your line manager. Contribute to the broader BBC Children in Need strategy while ensuring a high-quality external interface with all stakeholders - including applicants, grantees, fundraisers, and volunteers.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute towards and present at training seminars and events, and support ongoing improvement initiatives.
• External Liaison: Share good practice, build local profiles in Northern Ireland, maintain relationships with voluntary/statutory organisations, and support influencing activities.
• Appeal: Build and Maintain BBC regional relationships all year round, Liaise with BBC teams, external providers, funded organisations, fundraisers and volunteers to support the Appeal and coordinate regional fundraising activities, events and broadcasts.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Experience in grant making, working within the voluntary sector, or children and young people spheres including having an understanding of the current voluntary and statutory sectors across the Northern Ireland.
• Strong communicator with proven ability to engage diverse audiences and build effective relationships across all levels.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload, manage priorities under pressure and effectively to tight deadlines.
• Able to work flexibly, positively and autonomously in a small and often remotely located team.
• Aligned to the values of the BBC and BBC CiN.

This is a placed based role where we expect the successful candidate to be based in the region.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
For any general queries, please contact:
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
Information at a Glance
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:
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