Senior Evaluation Officer

Carer Support Wiltshire; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Carer Support Wiltshire in London is seeking a Senior Evaluation Officer to lead the Domestic Abuse priority area. You’ll report to the Head of Evaluation and oversee the performance and development of 1 x Evidence and Evaluation Officer, with scope for cross-priority projects in a multidisciplinary team.

The role focuses on scoping evaluations and ensuring commissioned work is delivered on time, on budget and to high standards, using impact evaluation approaches and robust quality assurance to

Qualifications

• Evaluation experience, including designing studies and quality assuring outputs.
• Experience of commissioning, grant-making or writing proposals, or responding to tenders.
• Knowledge of the domestic abuse sector, including research, policy or practice.
• Line management experience including recruitment, objective-setting and development.
• Stakeholder management with internal teams, external partners and delivery organisations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Evaluation team and supervise 1 x Evidence and Evaluation Officer.
• Scope evaluations and ensure commissioned work is delivered on time, on budget and to high standards.
• Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams to apply evaluation findings to policy and practice.
• Ensure robust quality assurance and actionable reporting for stakeholders.

Skills

Evaluation experience

Grant-writing experience

Domestic abuse sector knowledge

Line management

Stakeholder management

Job description

Applying for - Senior Evaluation Officer

We are looking for a Senior Evaluation Officer to lead the Domestic Abuse priority area.

Job role: Senior Evaluation Officer

Salary: £54,899 plus generous benefits

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Location: Central London (hybrid working)

Interviews: w/c 28 September

Decision: w/c 5 October

Start date: As soon as possible

The Role

You’ll be a senior member of the Evaluation team, reporting to the Head of Evaluation and responsible for the performance and development of 1 x Evidence and Evaluation Officer. Your portfolio may also include projects in other priority areas, depending on the team’s needs. Working in multidisciplinary teams, your role will be to scope evaluations and ensure that commissioned evaluations are delivered on time, on budget and to high standards.

Please refer to the Job Description and the job pack for more information when you click to apply.

• Evaluation experience: Explain where and how you developed your evaluation experience, including your experience of designing studies and quality assuring evaluation outputs. For this role, we are particularly interested in your experience of impact evaluation.
• Commissioning, grant-making or proposal-writing experience: Explain where and how you gained experience of commissioning work, grant-making, contributing to procurement processes, developing briefs, writing proposals, or responding to tenders.
• Sector experience: Explain where and how you developed your knowledge and experience of the domestic abuse sector, including relevant research, policy or practice experience.
• Line management experience: Explain where and how you developed your line management experience, including recruitment, objective-setting and review, performance management, and supporting learning and development.
• Stakeholder management experience: Explain where and how you developed your stakeholder management skills. Please include examples of working effectively with internal teams, external partners and/or delivery organisations.

The maximum word count is 1,000 words in total. We suggest aiming for approximately 200 words per question. Your responses should be concise while providing enough detail and specific examples to demonstrate clearly how your experience meets the requirements of the role.

The organisation strives to be a great place to work, where everyone is high performing and where together the teams can achieve impact that makes a real difference for vulnerable children and families. Focussig on generating and championing high quality evidence, working directly with government and local leaders to provide practical solutions and encourage change. Join an organisation with ambitious aims and our people are essential to it’s success

You may have experience in areas such as Impact, Impact and Evaluation, Research, Policy, Domestic Abuse, Abuse.