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Evaluation Manager

Job description

A charity based in London are looking for an Evaluation Manager. The successful candidate will design, coordinate and implement evaluation activities to assess the immediate outcomes of the charity's outreach and its longer-term impact on young people's subject choices, working to embed learning into ongoing development. Please note this role is a 12-month FTC.

Key responsibilities
To support the development and implementation/roll out of an impact and evaluation framework to support outreach providers in systematically and robustly appraising their work
To develop good practice evaluation guidance for internal and external stakeholders, reviewing literature, analysing data, and sourcing case studies
To ensure that charity's evaluation approach facilitates the measurement of relevant organisational key performance indicators
To respond to research and data-related queries from the engineering sector and internal colleagues
To enforce research ethics, data storage and data management protocol, ensuring that research is conducted in line with relevant policies, codes and applicable legislation
To keep up-to-date with developments in education and/or STEM-related policy and available data, as well as research methods

Person specification
Professional experience in monitoring and evaluation of programmes, policies or interventions in the UK context
Excellent knowledge of evaluation techniques/practices and data collection and analysis methodologies
Experience in undertaking literature searches and reviews, identifying relevant evidence, appraising its quality, and summarising the body of existing work
Excellent time management skills, with experience working on multiple projects at once, adapting to changing priorities, and meeting hard deadlines
Ability to work independently and prioritise own tasks and time, but also take direction, be flexible and work collaboratively with others, contributing to team decisions and facilitating cross-organisational working
An understanding of ethical and legal aspects of social research and the ability to adhere to appropriate research ethics and data protection protocol

Closing Date: Monday 26th April 2021