Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Eastleigh
Hours: Flexible: 22.50 to 37.50 hours per week
Reports to: Director of Finance
Start Date: October 2026
The Role
The Digital Impact Lead is a new and exciting role responsible for driving the strategic use of digital tools, data, and platforms to enhance the charity’s impact by ensuring effective implementation and integration of existing and new software for enhancing the charity’s capacity and impact by ensuring effective implementation and integration of existing and new software for recording data, reporting impact, monitoring performance and reducing the manual data inputting for our frontline staff and managers.
This role will lead the development and implementation of digital strategies that support programme delivery through improved data gathering, integration of systems and reporting. By leveraging analytics, innovation, and user-centred design, the Digital Impact Lead will ensure that digital initiatives are aligned with the charity’s goals and deliver improved outcomes and support for children and young people.
About You
Qualifications:
- Likely degree-educated (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in a logical discipline such as maths, physics, philosophy, computer science.
Experience & Essential Person Specification :
- Has digital skills and wants to use their powers for good.
- Will be excited by the possibilities that digitalisation can offer to support the charity to provide improved analysis of the impact of our work with disadvantaged children and young people; and to develop business process automation so we can spend more time working with disadvantaged children and young people.
- Demonstrable experience in digital implementation such as development of programmes, web-based applications and/or app development including suite of Microsoft materials.
- Experience producing dashboards, KPI reporting and organisational insight
- Strong analytical skills with experience using PowerBI and advanced Excel
- Will be confident in learning new programs, web-based applications and app development
- Will be technically savvy but also able to explain relevant concepts in straightforward, laymen’s language to support end users. Can present complex data in an accessible format.
- Will have experience of:
- MS 365
- MS Power Automate
- MS Power Apps
- Strong understanding of data governance and GDPR
- Will be a self-sufficient lifelong learner who is happy to get stuck in and figure things out and find innovative ways to improve delivery.
- A self-starter who can work equally well on their own or with team.
We are open to receiving applications from those starting their career and who will need training and support. The starting salary will be lower at £26,227.50. You must have excellent communication and advanced excel skills, and tell us in the application form how you meet as many desirable and essential attributes as possible
Why us?
Our staff care passionately about supporting children and young people. We see the potential in our staff and support everyone through training to ensure they have the skills they need to help children and young people achieve. 91% of staff say we are living our charity’s values and behaviours.
- Generous annual leave (minimum of 32 days holiday a year, increasing with length of service)
- Additional time off at Christmas
- Fair rates of pay
- Company pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Options for flexible working
- Annual staff away day and whole staff team building day
- Comprehensive and ongoing training
- Christmas Party and other socials
How to apply
Please access the Recruitment Pack and Application Form on our website. or to request a full Recruitment Pack and application form, you can email [email protected].
If you have any questions about the role or the application process, please contact us on 01794 525510.
As part of the application process, we will request that an application form is completed.
Pre-employment Checks
Employment with Youth Options will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check receipt of two satisfactory references proof of eligibility to work in the UK
Youth Options is committed to encouraging further growth from diverse groups and ensure that our staff are representative of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from people of all abilities and under-represented groups. We currently have an underrepresentation from people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities and those with lived experience of the issues that children and young people we work with face. As such, we particularly welcome applicants from these groups.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £32,448.00-£34,476.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
Application question(s):
- Do you have experience in -MS 365 - MS Power Automate - MS Power Apps?
- Do you have experience producing dashboards, KPI reporting and organisational insight?
- Do you strong analytical skills with experience using PowerBI and advanced Excel?
Work Location: In person
