Evaluation Manager
Central London (hybrid working, min one day per week in the office)
£40,000 - £50,000 per annum + benefits (dependent on experience)
Full time (4 days or compressed hours considered), 18 month fixed term contract (min August 2024, max August 2025), visa sponsorship available
Closing date: Tuesday 13th December (12pm)
Pre-interview task: w/c 19th December
First round interviews: w/c 2nd January
Second round interviews: w/c 9th January
£40,000 - £50,000 per annum + benefits (dependent on experience)
Full time (4 days or compressed hours considered), 18 month fixed term contract (min August 2024, max August 2025), visa sponsorship available
Closing date: Tuesday 13th December (12pm)
Pre-interview task: w/c 19th December
First round interviews: w/c 2nd January
Second round interviews: w/c 9th January
Organisation:
Education Endowment Foundation
The Education Endowment Foundation is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and education achievement. They do this by supporting schools, nurseries and colleges to improve teaching and learning for two- to 19-year-olds through better use of evidence.
Education Endowment Foundation
The Education Endowment Foundation is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and education achievement. They do this by supporting schools, nurseries and colleges to improve teaching and learning for two- to 19-year-olds through better use of evidence.
Role:
In this newly created role you will:
In this newly created role you will:
- Work closely with grantees and other internal and external evaluators to understand the practical issues involved in delivering evaluations and finding solutions to issues that arise
- 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.
Please see the review the Role Profile for full details.
To apply, please send a copy of your CV and a separate Supporting Statement (max two sides of A4) to tim@whitonmaynard.com
Please ensure that your supporting statement addresses the following points:
As specialist recruiters we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
To apply, please send a copy of your CV and a separate Supporting Statement (max two sides of A4) to tim@whitonmaynard.com
Please ensure that your supporting statement addresses the following points:
- Why you want to work in the Evaluation Team at the EEF
- Your experience of undertaking and/or supporting evaluations - particularly any experience with randomised controlled trials, pilots and process evaluations.
As specialist recruiters we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.