Evaluation Consultant

Ipsos in the UK; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension contribution

Income protection

Life assurance

Health & wellbeing benefits

Financial benefits

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Ipsos Public Affairs is recruiting an Evaluation Consultant to work across health, economic and social policy evaluations, managing small projects and applying a range of methods. The role welcomes early to mid-career candidates and offers opportunities to travel between our London, Manchester and Edinburgh offices.

You will develop theories of change, conduct literature reviews and design evaluation tools, while building strong client relationships and contributing to business development

Qualifications

• Experience delivering social and/or policy research in a consultancy, research agency, public sector, academic or related environment.
• Experience designing and delivering evaluation or policy research projects with clear client communication.
• Ability to synthesize findings and communicate insights clearly in reports and presentations.

Responsibilities

• Manage small evaluation projects (less than £100k) including timetables, budgets and client relationships.
• Apply analytical thinking to evidence from diverse sources and write clearly and coherently.
• Triangulate quantitative and qualitative evidence using appropriate methods.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and contribute to client workshops.
• Draft reports, presentations and outputs for government and public sector clients.
• Present findings and recommendations to clients and colleagues.

Skills

Social policy research

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Project management

Stakeholder management

Report writing

Data interpretation

Education

Degree-level qualification

Tools

SPSS

Stata

R

NVivo

Excel

Job description

Evaluation Consultant – Health, Economic & Social Policy

Ipsos Public Affairs is We are recruiting an Evaluation Consultant to work across our evaluations in health, economic and social policy, managing small projects, applying a range of methods, and contributing to high quality outputs.

The role will suit someone early/mid career.

We have offices in London, Manchester & Edinburgh and welcome applications from candidates that can be based from one of these locations and able to travel to other offices for internal and client meetings.

What is in it for you?

This is a fantastic career opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best industry experts.

• Managing small evaluation projects (less than £100k) and research strands of larger evaluations, including overseeing project finances, timetable, and client relationships.
• Apply critical and evaluative thinking to your analysis and reporting, and writing clearly, coherently and logically
• Analyse and triangulate quantitative and qualitative evidence with a high degree of autonomy, using tools such as Excel, SPSS, Stata and qualitative analysis techniques where appropriate.
• Participate in external meetings, building relationships with clients and stakeholders, contributing to presentations and workshops.
• Contribute to business development by drafting proposal sections, developing methodological approaches and co-ordinating inputs from colleagues across the business.
• Use emerging technologies, including AI tools, responsibly and effectively to enhance research, analysis, reporting and project delivery.

The Role…

These are the types of things you can expect to be doing during your day to day, although as Ipsos is a dynamic organisation, this may vary as different opportunities arise:

• Cleaning, integrating and analysing quantitative and qualitative data from a range of primary and secondary sources to answer complex policy and evaluation questions.
• Conducting literature reviews, policy analysis and evidence assessments to understand programme contexts and support evaluation design.
• Developing theories of change, logic models, research frameworks and evaluation tools.
• Designing questionnaires, interview guides and other research materials for qualitative and quantitative fieldwork.
• Conducting stakeholder interviews and engaging with clients and delivery partners to gather evidence and develop insights.
• Drafting clear, accessible and compelling reports, presentations and other outputs for government and public sector clients.
• Presenting findings and recommendations to clients, stakeholders and colleagues.
• Contributing to proposals and thought leadership activities that help grow the team and showcase our expertise.

Essential Skills:

• Experience delivering social and/or policy research in a consultancy, research agency, public sector, academic or related environment.
• Strong understanding of qualitative and/or quantitative research methods.
• Excellent written communication skills, with experience drafting reports, presentations or other client-facing outputs.
• Strong project management skills, including managing deadlines, prioritising workloads and maintaining high standards of quality.
• Experience building effective relationships with colleagues, clients or external stakeholders.
• Good numeracy and data-handling skills, including confidence interpreting evidence.
• Degree-level qualification, or equivalent professional experience, in a relevant discipline.

Desirable skills:

• Experience working on evaluations of public policies, programmes or services.
• Knowledge of the education, skills, digital, transport, planning, manufacturing or innovation policy space
• Experience using statistical or qualitative analysis software such as SPSS, Stata, R or NVivo.
• Experience contributing to bids, proposals or business development activities.
• Experience presenting findings to clients, stakeholders or senior audiences.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave
• pension contribution
• income protection
• life assurance
• range health & wellbeing
• financial benefits
• professional development opportunities

We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views.

We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.

We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer.

We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.