Impact & Evaluation Officer — Remote

The Children's Society; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

36 days leave

Enhanced leave

Pension match 8%

Free counselling

Professional development

2 paid volunteering days

Job summary

The Children's Society is seeking a Research Evaluation and Impact Officer to join our Research, Evaluation and Impact team. This permanent role (35 hours/week) is remote with occasional travel to London, and focuses on coordinating independent evaluations and building our evidence base.

You will draft tenders, support external evaluators, analyse data, and contribute to published reports, helping demonstrate the impact of our services for children and young people.

Qualifications

• Experience with both quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding of safeguarding and ethics in research with young people.
• Experience in social research/evaluation within the last year.

Responsibilities

• Support external evaluations and contribute to development of the evidence base.
• Draft tenders and maintain relationships with external evaluators.
• Organise fieldwork, collect and analyse data for evaluations.
• Contribute to published reports and dissemination of findings.
• Help develop methods and instruments for evaluation projects.

Skills

Quantitative data analysis

Qualitative data analysis

Written communication

Verbal communication

IT skills (Microsoft Office)

Stakeholder engagement

Organisational skills

Research/evaluation methodologies

Ethical considerations in research

Social research experience (1+ year)

Education

Postgraduate degree

Tools

SPSS

NVivo

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Children's Society is seeking a Research Evaluation and Impact Officer to join our Research, Evaluation and Impact team. This permanent role (35 hours/week) is remote with occasional travel to London, and focuses on coordinating independent evaluations and building our evidence base.

You will draft tenders, support external evaluators, analyse data, and contribute to published reports, helping demonstrate the impact of our services for children and young people.