Principal Analyst, Impact

Job Purpose:As a Principal Analyst, you will oversee the monitoring and reporting processes for NWFs deals from an impact perspective. This includes coordinating with policy and communications colleagues to build compelling impact stories and enhance the Funds communications content.You will work closely with the Portfolio Management team, who monitor the financial performance of projects, to build relationships and develop ways of working that ensure impact is appropriately considered and integrated as projects progress.Your responsibilities will include coordinating the pipeline of annual reviews from an impact perspective, ensuring timely and high-quality inputs.You will collaborate with the communications team to best represent NWF's impact story, leading efforts to collect relevant data for communications and producing strong impact stories at the deal, sector, and portfolio levels.As a sector lead, you will conduct ex-ante deal impact and ESRG analysis and assessments for annual reviews.Additionally, you will manage Impacts relationship with the Project Management Office to ensure concise and well-managed project execution for the team.Core accountabilities: Support the NWF to achieve its strategic objectives (supporting net zero and regional and local economic growth) helping implement the NWFs Impact Framework in relation to monitoring, reporting, evaluation and learning on the impact of the NWFs work. Oversight of the Funds Impact Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, ensuring NWF appropriately monitors the extent to which expected impacts are occurring and is extracting relevant learnings. Lead on developing communication products of impacts work, working closely with wider Impact and policy team to ensure strong content, format and style for telling NWFs impact story. Engage with relevant government departments and external experts. Act as the point person for the Impact team working closely with the Portfolio Management team to ensure that Impact, additionality and ESRG are fully embedded in the ex post monitoring and reporting process for NWF. Also supporting impact reports within annual reviews and ex post sector assessments. Deals impact assessments lead - Serve as one of the impact teams sector lead for a number of technologies within NWFs key sectors. As the sector lead you will stay up to date with policy, technological and market developments in these sectors. You will work with NWFs Banking, Policy and Risk teams to understand potential investments impact and assess whether the NWF is additional e.g. addressing an undersupply of capital or market barrier over time. Lead the due diligence process for potential lending and equity deals (both private and Local Authority) including producing impact, additionality and ESRG (environmental, social, resilience and governance) analysis to inform decision making by NWFs Investment Committee. This involves assessing potential investments against a reasonable counterfactual in order to estimate their net impact on carbon emissions, local employment and productivity. Be a team player and peer-review the analysis and assessment undertaken by other analysts in the function.