Senior Evaluation Coordinator

The Social Mobility Foundation; Highgate; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A nonprofit organization in the UK is seeking a Senior Evaluation Coordinator to enhance how they measure and communicate their impact. The role involves designing evaluation frameworks, managing data collection, collaborating across teams, and presenting insights to stakeholders. The ideal candidate should have strong IT and communication skills with experience in data analysis tools like PowerBI. This role allows for flexible working arrangements, including hybrid work.

Benefits

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employer pension contributions of 5%

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible work options including hybrid working

Qualifications

• Experience in designing measurement frameworks.
• Ability to present complex data to diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design measurement framework to quantify organisational impact.
• Shape evaluation questions and methodology for analysis.
• Manage yearly impact evaluation across interventions.
• Develop data analysis and visualisation tools.
• Consolidate analysis findings for presentations.
• Run evaluation projects throughout the lifecycle.
• Create plans to support robust evaluation processes.

Skills

Strong IT skills

Excellent communication skills

Tools

PowerBI

Job description

Location: You can be based near one of the following office locations - Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester or Newcastle. We operate a hybrid model of work i.e. a combination of in-person and remote, with flexible days in the office depending on business need and your preferences. We would typically expect in-office attendance an average of one day per week. Hours: We are looking for the right candidate and while we envisage this being a full‑time role (37.5 hours per week) we are very open to flexible working arrangements such as part‑time, compressed hours and/or flexitime. Ideal start date: Flexible, as agreed with candidate. Annual leave: 36/37 days (England & Wales and Scotland respectively – includes bank and public holidays and three days to be taken between Christmas and New Year) plus up to 3 days additional annual leave increasing with length of service. We also offer a Holiday Buyback scheme where you can purchase up to 1 working week additional annual leave per year.

• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employer pension contributions of 5%, plus salary sacrifice contribution the equivalent of Employer National Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme available to staff and their family
• Flexible work options such as hybrid working, flexitime, part‑time

The Opportunity

As our Senior Evaluation Coordinator you'll drive forward how we measure and share our organisation's impact. You'll own our monitoring and evaluation framework and use this to design smart and robust ways to measure how our work creates change. You'll lead our annual data collection processes and cycles, collaborating with other teams to collect and share key outcomes data, both internally and externally. From crafting data methodologies to generating insightful reporting for stakeholders, this role is ideal for someone who loves delving into data, analysing and communicating trends and working with others to make a difference.

Responsibilities

• Design our measurement framework to quantify organisational impact.
• Shape evaluation questions and methodology, considering data required for robust analysis.
• Manage the yearly impact evaluation across three key interventions – student outcomes, employer influencing work and campaign work.
• Develop and manage data analysis and visualisation tools and processes (e.g. PowerBI) to present monitoring data.
• Consolidate analysis findings and present them to various audiences to enable conversations around development of our work.
• Run evaluation projects throughout the full lifecycle – planning, data collection, analysis and dissemination.
• Create and implement plans and administrative systems to support robust evaluation processes.

Additional Skills

• Strong IT skills, including learning and building capability with databases, data visualisation tools and CRMs.
• Excellent communication skills, able to present complex data to diverse stakeholders.