Learning and Insights Lead

Youth Endowment Fund; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40.000 - 60.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Youth Endowment Fund is seeking a Learning lead for the Change team to drive how learning informs delivery. The role focuses on turning learning into practice, working with leaders across youth justice services, police, schools and children’s services, and shaping future delivery with insights from ongoing activities.

The role, 2-year fixed term and full-time, offers remote or central London work options. You will lead learning initiatives while collaborating with an external Learning Partner to

Aufgaben

• Lead how we learn across our Change programmes.
• Coordinate with our Learning Partner to ensure rigorous and useful evaluations.
• Scope, commission and contract-manage external evaluations of Change activities.

Jobbeschreibung

Reports to: Assistant Director of Change

Location: Central London or remote

Contract: 2-year fixed term (Full -time)

About the Youth Endowment Fund

We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.

Key responsibilities

Our Change team helps leaders who work to keep children safe from violence to put evidence into everyday practice. That includes leaders from youth justice services, police forces, schools and children’s services. We’re currently supporting more than 200 settings across England and Wales through a range of activities, from running workshops to longer-term support and coaching.

Working with so many services means we can learn a lot, fast. Our Learning Partner, an independent research organisation, gives us in-depth analysis of what’s working. Alongside that, we want to capture what our teams are seeing day to day, so we can adapt quickly and keep improving our support.

You’ll lead how we learn across our Change programmes. That means:

• Getting the best from our Learning Partner, so their work is rigorous, useful and focused on what we need to know.
• Helping our teams learn as they go, by building simple ways to capture what they’re seeing and act on it quickly.
• Scoping, commissioning and contract managing other evaluations of our Change activities.

This isn’t an impact evaluation role. It’s about learning during delivery so we can improve it while it’s happening and help shape future delivery and includes,