Impact Delivery Manager

About the role

Join Imperial College London and Shape the Future of Large-Scale, Impact-Driven Interdisciplinary Research.

Are you passionate about driving real-world change through research? Do you thrive at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and societal impact? Are you motivated by the pressing societal challenges of our time – whether at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence, health and technology, environmental sustainability and/or new frontiers of space, security and telecoms? If so, we invite you to join Imperial College London as our Impact Delivery Manager for our School of Convergence Science.

We are building a team of impact-driven professionals with the skills and agility to turn research into real-world solutions. The School of Convergence Science – central to Imperial’s new Strategy is seeking an Impact Delivery Manager to work with Co-Directors to take bold visions and turn them into measurable societal impact. The School is designed to accelerate interdisciplinary research, amplify global influence, attract top talent and funding, and, most importantly, deliver tangible benefits in areas of critical importance to society.

Announced as a key pillar of Imperial’s new Strategy, the School will enhance our interdisciplinary research capacity, global visibility, talent attraction, and funding, driving societal impact in critical areas.

• Human and artificial intelligence - We envision AI that augments human intelligence and benefits everyone. Understanding how we think and learn helps us build better AI. Our goal is AI that is sustainable, trustworthy, and truly human-centered.
• Health and technology - We envision health and wellbeing for all, focused on prevention over treatment. Despite progress, challenges like chronic illness and inequality remain. Solving them requires bold, cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Sustainability - We envision a world where people live prosperously and meaningfully, in harmony with the planet. Our mission is to provide evidence and solutions for realistic, sustainable pathways, working closely with partners to drive change.
• Space, security and telecoms - We envision the convergence of these areas for the benefit of everyone, in the short and the long term, with a mission to protect, connect, and know our worlds.

This role will be specifically assigned to either the Human and Artificial Intelligence theme or the Space, Security and Telecommunications theme.

For more background and information on the School: School of Convergence Science | About | Imperial College London

What you would be doing

Your main duties will include:

• Leading the co-development of an Impact Plan for one of the themes in collaboration with Co-Directors, ensuring alignment with institutional strategy and societal priorities across commercialisation, policy influence, community engagement, and global partnerships.
• Working with the Co-Directors to design and embed impact pathways within research missions, fostering innovation ecosystems and inclusive knowledge exchange that translate academic outputs into real-world change.
• Embeding outcome-oriented planning and evaluation tools across School activities to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement in delivering societal, economic, and environmental impact.

If you require any further details about the role, please contact: Victoria Ebo – v.ebo@imperial.ac.uk