Evidence Engagement Officer /Swyddog Ymgysylltu â Thystiolaeth

TNL Community Fund; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Lottery Community Fund is seeking an Evidence Engagement Officer to join the Evidence Services: Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales team as an embedded analyst in Northern Ireland. The role supports evidence-based funding decisions and improves how evidence is used across the funding lifecycle.

You will engage with data, dashboards and BI tools, helping colleagues to self-serve evidence needs while upholding high data quality. Hybrid working with Belfast base.

Qualifications

• Experience or qualification in social research, public policy or economics.
• Strong written and verbal communication across audiences.
• Familiarity with data, evaluation and research disciplines.
• Ability to write and speak about complex ideas clearly.
• Desire to collaborate with colleagues to deliver projects.
• Curiosity about our work and the communities we serve.
• Good project management skills.
• Experience working in a matrix team environment.

Responsibilities

• Support colleagues in Northern Ireland Directorate to improve evidence use across the funding lifecycle.
• Engage with Fund-wide data and dashboards to inform decisions.
• Champion good data quality and accurate grant records.
• Collaborate across the Evidence Services team within a matrix structure.

Skills

Social research

Public policy

Economics

Strong communication

Verbal communication

Data familiarity

Evaluation methods

Research disciplines

Engaging writing

Team collaboration

Project management

Matrix teamwork

Job description

About The Role

Evidence Engagement Officer - 12-month FTC

At The National Lottery Community Fund we are committed to making a bigger difference. Our 2030 strategy 'It starts with community' puts impact at the heart of what we do. Our Evidence and Impact Strategy explains how we will do this by transforming how evidence is used across the organisation; helping us better understand community needs, make better funding decisions, and demonstrate the difference National Lottery funding makes across the UK.

We are recruiting an Evidence Engagement Officer to join our Evidence Services: Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales Team as an embedded analyst in Northern Ireland. You will support our goal of being an evidence-based funder by helping colleagues in Northern Ireland Directorate to improve how evidence is used across the funding lifecycle to help your colleagues make confident, evidence-based decisions. You will also work flexibly across the wider Evidence & Impact Team as part of a matrix team of other analysts to support the delivery of our evidence-based funding project. By following our ethos of 'One Fund approaches, adapted locally', you will support the use and development of common evidence products and services across the Fund that help Northern Ireland Directorate to use and apply knowledge and learning in a consistent way that also enables colleagues to self-serve their own evidence needs.

We are looking for someone who can give advice to colleagues and decision makers on how funding can achieve greatest impact through both an engaging and concise writing style and presenting findings verbally to a range of audiences. You will do so by engaging with our Fund-wide data and dashboards, and you will support Northern Ireland colleagues to make full use of our Business Intelligence and reporting products. As a champion for good data quality, you will work to ensure that our corporate grant records represent the reality of projects on the ground.

Interview Details

Interview Date: 4th and 5th November 2026

Format: Virtual (Microsoft Teams)

Location: UK Wide

We have a hybrid approach to working and working pattern will be agreed with the successful candidate. As this role serves the Northern Ireland Portfolio, it will ideally be based in our Belfast Office.

• Experience and or qualification in a relevant discipline such as social research, public policy or economics.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with different audiences.
• Familiarity with a range of a data, evaluation and research disciplines.
• Ability to write and speak about complex ideas, information and impact in an engaging and simple way
• A desire to work with a wide range of colleagues to deliver projects and learn together
• Understanding of and curiosity about our work and the communities we serve

• Good project management skills
• Familiarity with working in a matrix team environment

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone - therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.

We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. That's why The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition.)