Innovation Consultant

• Fancy joining a successful, scaling start-up which is changing the world with our partners?

  
  

• Do you want to support organisations working to help those facing cancer, dementia and homelessness?

  
  

• Flying Cars is a boutique charity and for-purpose innovation agency founded in 2018. We deliver a friendly, personable service, outstanding stewardship and high impact for our partners, to develop new and impactful solutions to the challenges they face

• Specialising in innovation strategy, training, and delivering innovation cycles, our daily bread is insight, audience-led ideas generation, prototyping, smokescreen testing and campaign delivery with our partners. We’re now looking to build our small team.

• We’re very good at what we do, just ask any of our clients. We help them find new solutions to old and new problems and help them raise millions of pounds and engage with new audiences.

  
  

Salary & Perks

1. The salary for this role is £25K-30K, depending on experience

2. Annual bonus linked to performance

3. 30 days holiday per year (including 8 public holidays)

4. Birthday off in addition

5. Exceptional in-job training in new tools and techniques that will make you a sector-leading innovator

6. be thanked by grateful clients for a good job well done every time

7. Feel great at the end of each day as everything you do contributes to a better world
   
8. Innovative East London workspace

About the role
Some of the problems we are asked to solve are complex but highly rewarding. We adapt, learn and evolve with our partners. You will be coached, taught and developed in order for you to thrive.

You will play a key role in running innovation projects that have the following tasks at the core:

• Project management of multiple and complex projects, working to strict deadlines and delivering whatever is needed to get the job done

• Planning, preparing and facilitating highly collaborative virtual and in-person innovation workshops

• Organising and running qualitative research projects. Develop discussion guides, undertake depth interviews, find actionable insights and collate convincing evidence

• Give support to quantitative research projects

  
  

• Creating presentation decks and reports

  
  

• Help provide content for weekly updates for clients. Communicate directly with them

• Collect and create results/impact/visuals for case study creation

• Support and run smokescreen tests on social media

• Help support new business for the agency and be involved in pitches for life-changing projects

• Developing campaign ideas, pivoting, improving and iterating based on audience feedback, testing and responses

• Maintaining active social media profiles for Flying Cars

• Developing and creating content for clients and Flying Cars

• Stewarding clients to a high level.

• Administration - we’re a small outfit, so this is important

  
  

We will work with you to set honest motivating goals and work transparently to achieve them

Recent clients: Macmillan Cancer Support, Battersea, The Salvation Army, Diabetes UK, Dementia UK, Depaul, Royal Star and Garter, The Children’s Society, Huru, St John’s Ambulance

Who are you? You will be:

• Keen to roll up your sleeves and get things done

• Have digital marketing skills

• And you want to learn about Innovation and audience-led proposition design

• Able to show excellent multi-layered project management skills

• Comfortable becoming part of a small but diverse team focused on making the world a better place

• personable and comfortable being a key face for Flying Cars Innovation to our clients

• Making audience-led decisions, putting aside personal preferences or challenging clients when they oppose insight, to ensure audience insight is the driving force for the propositions we create

• Able to work under your own direction to deliver to deadlines without someone hovering over you

• A team player, ready to pick up whatever needs to be done to deliver

• Thrive on having variety in your work - happy spending the day talking to people from all walks of life in qualitative insight sessions or equally a desk day setting up Facebook campaigns

• We will expect you to contribute to any task - big or small to get the job done - this will include routine administrative tasks regularly

• hava hunger to learn, are curious and love working out how to do things. Happy being coached, mentored or self-taught - a love of learning is important

  
  

• Results-driven with an ability and wish to do well for our clients and ensure they get exceptional value

• Love research - we are driven by understanding human needs and wants that creates penetrating insights for our clients

• Creative and energetic

• Comfortable challenging the team and giving feedback

  
  

Essential Criteria

• An outstanding project manager, able to coordinate multiple projects with ease and keep on top of deadlines

  
  

• Experience running paid social media ad campaigns, with a working knowledge of Facebook Ad Manager (applied back-end knowledge of social media marketing)

  
  

• Demonstrable ability to learn new skills quickly, we will teach you everything you need to know but you need to be able to pick things up at speed.

  
  

• Ability to communicate clearly and confidently via phone, Zoom, in writing and face to face

• Excellent attention to detail and planning skills

  
  

• A collaborative approach to problem-solving

• Willing to complete all administration tasks

• A wish to learn everything there is to know about Innovating for organisations and brands that wish to do good

• Able to commute to London