Senior Impact Manager, Motorsports Engagement

Salary: £46,000 per year

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: UK (minimum 2 days per week in the London office)

Work Pattern: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week with the opportunity for flexible working hours

Reporting To: Chiara De Luca, Head of Impact, STEM Pathways

Please submit an anonymised CV and covering letter (please remove any identifying details such as name, address, photos) by midnight on 9 January via the Workable link.

Your covering letter should outline:

● Your motivations for applying to Mission 44

● How this role fits into your career plans

● Experience (professional, voluntary or lived) that makes you a great fit for this role in line with our values and the criteria outlined in this job description.

About The Role

Mission 44 supports young people to boost aspirations, achieve academically, and provide resources and industry exposure to access great STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) careers. Our motorsports engagement strategy, which sits under our global STEM strategy, seeks to accelerate sector-wide change in motorsport within the next three years. It leverages Mission 44’s convening power and our MSc Motorsports Scholarship programme to deliver measurable change across employers and increased access for young people from all underrepresented backgrounds to exciting roles in motorsports.

As the Senior Impact Manager, Motorsports Engagement, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining strategic relationships with motorsports employers to support young people from underrepresented backgrounds into early career opportunities. Working closely with Formula 1 and its teams, as well as a broader network of STEM-related organisations across the UK, US, and Brazil, you will lead collaboration efforts to influence inclusive recruitment and retention practices in motorsports, and enhance career access and progression. With a strong external focus, you will also support Mission 44’s fundraising goals, representing the organisation at high-profile events, stewarding key corporate accounts, and helping secure investment in our programmes and mission.

We’re looking for someone passionate about influencing employers, building consensus and using it to drive action. You’ll be highly organised, resilient, adaptable and skilled at building trusted relationships. You will be a proactive problem-solver, able to balance multiple priorities while ensuring young people feel supported and heard. If you’re motivated by creating opportunities for young people to drive change, we’d love you to join our team and help us strengthen the impact we make together.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

DELIVERY OF MOTORSPORTS ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY (70%)

● Play a key role in the development and execution of Mission 44’s new Motorsports strategy, to create access opportunities for young people from underrepresented backgrounds within STEM sectors, particularly motorsports.

● Build trusted relationships with key motorsport employers and stakeholders, including F1, F1 teams, FIA, and relevant STEM employers, to drive sector-wide change, focusing on increasing demand for underrepresented talent, adoption of inclusive recruitment practices, and awareness of Mission 44’s work and impact.

● Apply and continually improve the convening strategy and toolkits to Mission 44’s STEM work, helping determine when and how convening can most effectively support our goal of inspiring and supporting young people (aged 14–30) in the UK and US to access careers in STEM and motorsport.

● Collaborate with the Engagement Directorate, nonprofit partners and corporates to design and deliver high-impact STEM career experiences at Formula 1 races and other key events - some of which will be international - ensuring alignment with Mission 44’s objectives and offering young people meaningful exposure to career pathways.

EXTERNAL REPRESENTATION AND ENGAGEMENT (20%)

● Represent Mission 44 at Motorsport industry events, donor meetings, clearly articulating our global mission and impact with tailored messaging for each audience.

● Support cultivation and stewardship efforts as requested by the Engagement Directorate, engaging prospective donors and prioritising meetings that deliver the greatest strategic value.

● Advocate for Mission 44 at high-profile events and stakeholder meetings, championing greater industry engagement and driving impact.

● Support our storytelling and communications efforts to highlight success and progress while spotlighting challenges to potentially shape future advocacy.

MONITORING AND LEARNING (10%)

● Support the Head of Impact, STEM Pathways and the Head of Strategy and Learning to collect key impact data.

● Contribute to evaluation processes, seek and develop opportunities to raise awareness of Mission 44’s work to create early career pathways for young people.

● Assist with annual reporting and provide input into fundraising and communications materials where relevant.

ABOUT YOU:

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE ESSENTIAL

● Experience working in the motorsports sector and/or F1, with a strong network of connections. Please note this is an essential requirement and candidates who do not meet this criterion will not be considered.

● Knowledge of inclusive recruitment and retention practices.

● Strong understanding of early career pathways into STEM careers, particularly into the motorsport sector, and of barriers to access for people from underrepresented backgrounds.

● Strong expertise in programme design and implementation.

● Outstanding project management and organisational skills, with the ability to drive initiatives from concept to execution, including organising events and convening workshops in an inclusive and equitable way.

● Excellent relationship management and communications skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across corporate, education and nonprofit sectors.

● Experience in building coalitions to meet collective goals.

● Experience in producing compelling reports and presentations to demonstrate measurable evidence of change.

DESIRABLE

● Experience working in international settings.

● Experience working with non-profit organisations, grantmaking foundations, or educational institutions.

PERSONAL QUALITIES

● Passionate about creating opportunities in STEM/motorsports for young people.

● Highly collaborative and adept at building and maintaining relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

● Resilient with demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment; the post-holder should be comfortable with change and uncertainty.

● Highly organised.

● Strategic with a strong personal commitment to learning and improvement.

● Possesses cultural sensitivity to work respectfully and effectively in different settings.

● Ability to work independently and also as part of a dynamic team; self-motivated and proactive.

● Committed to embedding the values of equity, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of work.

● Creative and solutions-oriented, with the confidence to share bold ideas.

• Enjoy 28 days annual leave, plus a day for your birthday
• Use our cycle-to-work scheme and free gym access
• Save for retirement with our generous pension package
• We finish every Friday at noon in August
• Optional health insurance and acccess to an EAP
• Professional development budget of £1k
• Unlimited volunteering leave, as agreed with your manager
• Wellbeing allowance to spend in whatever way works for you
• Competitive parental leave package