Senior Consultant-Research and Evaluation

Energy Saving Trust; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK environmental organization is seeking a Senior Consultant to manage evaluation and research projects, providing expertise and building relationships across sectors. The role requires solid evaluation techniques and analytical skills. Flexible working options are available, making it a rewarding opportunity for those passionate about making a difference in energy efficiency and sustainability.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Competitive pension scheme

Flexible working arrangements

Paid volunteering days

Qualifications

• Experience using high-calibre evaluation and research techniques.
• Ability to design evaluation methodologies for quantitative and qualitative data.
• Experience managing multiple research projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop work plans for evaluations and reports.
• Provide technical expertise on research methodologies.
• Build relationships with clients across sectors.

Skills

Evaluation and research techniques

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Tools

Excel

R

SPSS

Job description

Senior Consultant – Research and Evaluation

Closing Date: 3 November 2025

Location: Flexible within the UK

Hours: Full time

Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum (depending on experience) – Part time or job share salary calculated pro rata

We are seeking a senior consultant to develop and deliver high quality evaluation and research projects. You will work closely with colleagues in the insight and evaluation team, across the business, and with external clients.

Who we are

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with additional leave earned through length of service
• Three extra days off over the Christmas period as a gesture of goodwill
• A competitive pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• Flexibility in our ways of working – work from home, in the office, or a mix of both, depending on your role
• Two paid volunteering days per year – a chance to give back to the causes that matter most to you

Please see our careers page for the full list of benefits we have to offer and why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to work.

The team

The insight & evaluation team is integral to the data, research and content the Energy Saving Trust produces. The work the team does is hugely varied from calculating the savings that can be achieved through making energy efficiency changes, to modelling the impact of new technologies to providing content for energy efficiency training to researching consumers attitudes towards government policy and assessing the impact that programmes deliver.

The team work individually on projects but also work closely together sharing ideas and working through complex problems or scenarios ensuring that knowledge sharing, and knowledge development is at the forefront of everything we do.

Working within the team and at the Energy Saving Trust more broadly will allow you to use your experience and skills, whilst improving your knowledge and having the space and opportunity to grow within a friendly, supportive team.

What you’ll do

• Develop and implement a work plan for evaluating and reporting on Energy Saving Trust activities.
• Provide technical expertise on research and evaluation methodologies.
• Support the development of new evaluation and research opportunities, designing suitable methodologies and identifying resource requirements.
• Build effective and collaborative relationships with key clients in government and the wider public and private sector, potential partners, and across Energy Saving Trust.
• Work with others in the insight and evaluation team to ensure ongoing, existing evaluations feed into the overall Energy Saving Trust reporting.
• Maintain and develop excellent knowledge of developments in evaluation and research methods relevant to Energy Saving Trust work and mission.
• Support junior team members and advise Energy Saving Trust colleagues drawing on your specialist knowledge.

What you’ll bring

• Knowledge and experience of using evaluation and research techniques at a high calibre, including logic models, various types of sampling, data collection, a bank of analytical techniques, statistical tests, and other research tools.
• Experience of designing appropriate evaluation or research methodologies which cover various types of quantitative and qualitative data and analysis.
• Experience of developing new proposals for research and evaluation projects according to client specifications.
• Experience of managing multiple research and evaluation projects for internal or external clients.
• Analytical skills including analysis of qualitative data and use of packages such as Excel, R or SPSS.
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills.
• Demonstrable ability to take responsibility for own work, self‑reliant and self‑motivated.
• Demonstrable ability to act with integrity and always display high professional standards.
• For more information, please see job description.

Applications close 9am, 3 November 2025. Interviews are intended to be held week commencing 10 November 2025.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Please click "apply online" via our recruitment portal. We will ask for your personal details, work history and a supporting statement. Applications submitted without a supporting statement will not be considered.

In your supporting statement please explain how you meet the essential areas in the job description. Applications submitted via email or without a supporting statement will not be considered.

Reasonable adjustments

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for everyone. If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch. We will do our very best to support you.

Flexible working

We offer a range of flexible working arrangements, including working from home, compressed or part‑time hours, job shares and other arrangements. There is no need to justify your preferred working pattern and we encourage our people to work in whichever way helps them to perform at their best.

We will be happy to discuss this and our blended working model at the interview stage with you.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Diversity and inclusion

Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the minimum criteria for a role.