Please see: https://www.whitonmaynard.com/evaluation-manager.html

Full time, 12-month maternity cover contract, possible extension or secondment

Organisation:

Independent grant-making charity focused on educational welfare

Role:

In this role you will:

• Critically review evaluation proposals to ensure designs are methodologically sound and cost-effective and that the most suitable evaluators are matched with projects
• Chair meetings to ensure evaluation projects are setup effectively and liaise between project and evaluation teams to ensure project evaluation designs are as high quality as possible
• Manage evaluation contracts and budgets and monitor delivery of evaluation plans and provide support when problems arise
• Conduct technical reviews of trial protocols, statistical analysis plans and evaluation reports and provide critical feedback to evaluators
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure published reports are of high quality and effectively communicate findings to an audience of practitioners, academics, policymakers and the general public.

Candidate:

• Degree in education or social science discipline e.g. psychology, sociology or economics
• Demonstrable experience in delivery or commissioning quantitative evaluation projects in education, health or related field
• Strong understanding of evaluation methodologies (randomised controlled trials, sampling methods, outcome measurement, etc) and an ability to identify high quality evaluation plans
• Experience of working in a busy environment with the proven ability to work under pressure and flexibly manage competing priorities
• Strong organisational and project management skills and excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a clear writing style
• Ability to manage relationships and communicate with practitioners, academics and policymakers.