Role: Corporate Director, Strategy and Impact
Reports to: Executive Director for Strategy, Policy and Governance
Salary: Circa £126k plus benefits
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Bedford Borough Hall. We expect our senior leadership to be visible with staff and key stakeholders to build relationships and deliver business goals. This tends to equate to being physically present with those groups around three days a week. You must be a full-time UK resident.
Purpose of the Role
The Corporate Director for Strategy, Policy and Impact is a pivotal senior leadership role at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS). You will set the long-term direction of the organisation and lead the teams responsible for strategy, policy, impact, and strategic stakeholder engagement.
This role ensures that MaPS delivers the right work, in the right way, to improve financial wellbeing across the UK. You will provide visible leadership across a broad and influential portfolio, ensuring that our priorities are clearly defined, our work is evidence based, and our actions lead to measurable, meaningful outcomes.
As a trusted advisor to the Executive Committee and Board, you will play a critical role in shaping MaPS as a coherent, inclusive, and future focused organisation. With a growing mandate and an increasingly complex operating landscape, this role provides the senior capacity needed to drive strategic alignment, strengthen external influence, and ensure organisational cohesion. It also supports leadership resilience and helps drive transformation across MaPS.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership and Direction
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- Lead the development and implementation of the MaPS corporate strategy, strategic framework, and three year strategic plan.
- Ensure clarity of purpose and alignment across MaPS, linking our activities to our statutory remit, long term ambitions, and the needs of the people we serve.
- Identify emerging strategic opportunities and scalable delivery models in response to shifting trends and systemic challenges.
- Policy Development and System Influence
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- Lead the policy function to create coherent, evidence informed positions that enhance MaPS’ role in shaping the national financial wellbeing agenda.
- Build and maintain strong and trusted relationships with government departments, regulators and key system partners.
- Drive forward-looking policy development through horizon scanning, innovation, and thought leadership.
- Insight, Impact and Evaluation
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- Oversee the development of a compelling insight and impact strategy that brings together research, data and evaluation to inform decision making.
- Embed outcome measurement and impact thinking across the organisation – ensuring we understand and articulate the difference our work makes.
- Champion the use of robust evidence to guide improvement, shape delivery models, and build external credibility.
- Oversee the Head of Impact and ensure MaPS has a rigorous, organisation-wide framework for measuring the impact of its services.
- Ensure impact insights inform strategy, resource allocation, service enhancement, and external reporting.
- Champion the use of data, insight, and evaluation in driving better outcomes for users of MaPS’ services.
- Strategic Stakeholder Engagement
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- Lead MaPS’ strategic stakeholder engagement function ensuring coordinated, insight-driven relationships across government, regulators and key partners.
- Develop and implement engagement strategies that advance MaPS’ influence, visibility, and credibility.
- Ensure stakeholders understand MaPS’ strategy, impact, value. and the outcomes we deliver.
- People and Portfolio Leadership
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- Inspire and lead inclusive, high performing, teams across strategy, policy, impact and strategic stakeholder engagement.
- Operate as a values led, visible senior leader, contributing to the Executive Director’s leadership of the wider Strategy, Policy and Governance directorate.
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- Act as a strategic advisor to the Executive Committee, CEO, and Board, ensuring coherence, alignment, and strategic grip across complex, cross cutting initiatives.
What You Bring
- Strategic vision and systems thinking: You see the big picture, connect issues across boundaries, and shape long term direction in complex, fast changing environments.
- Credibility and influence: You’ve worked closely with senior stakeholders across government, regulation, or the broader financial wellbeing ecosystem and know how to shape policy, foster partnerships, and influence change.
- A track record of delivery: You’re not only experienced in setting strategic direction, you know how to make it happen through clear prioritisation, planning, and performance management.
- Evidence-driven decision making: You value insight, evaluation, and data and use them to guide strategy, improve outcomes, and steer organisations at scale.
- Inclusive and empowering leadership: You have led diverse, high performing teams and know how to create environments where everyone feels valued, included, and able to thrive.