Senior M&E Lead for Advanced Manufacturing

Government Recruitment Service; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Edinburgh is advertising a Monitoring and Evaluation lead analyst role within the Advanced Manufacturing policy team. You will steer high-profile evaluations and provide evidence-based insights to inform policy decisions.

The role leads a multi-disciplinary team of social researchers, engages with policy colleagues and industry partners, and ensures programmes deliver value for money and learning for future policy development.

Qualifications

• Experience leading monitoring and evaluation programmes in complex sectors.
• Ability to procure and manage external evaluations.
• Strong analytical capability and policy-facing communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and management of the programme of high-quality monitoring and evaluation to build the Advanced Manufacturing evidence base.
• Lead the procurement and contract management of external process and impact evaluations.
• Provide quality assurance of M&E projects to ensure robust findings and value for money.
• Lead the promotion and dissemination of evaluation findings outside the immediate team to ensure learning feeds into ongoing and new policy development, and products have maximum impact.
• Manage a team of social researcher and other analysts. Support their professional development and wellbeing.
• Provide analytical and social research support across the Advanced Manufacturing analysis team delivering insights and analysis on policy questions such as battery policy development, or the Advanced Manufacturing Sector plan.
• Build relationships with advanced manufacturing policy colleagues to understand analytical and social research needs.
• Develop and support a culture of research and monitoring and evaluation in directorate and wider department, including offering advice on monitoring and evaluation to other teams across the Group.
• We work flexibly across the team and wider department to respond to changing priorities. The role may involve supporting work in the wider team. There are also opportunities to vary the responsibilities to support your development.
• We will support you to developed professional expertise in monitoring and evaluation and sector knowledge.

Skills

Leadership

Monitoring and evaluation

Team management

Procurement

Contract management

Stakeholder engagement

Policy analysis

Data analysis

Job description

Government Recruitment Service in Edinburgh is advertising a Monitoring and Evaluation lead analyst role within the Advanced Manufacturing policy team. You will steer high-profile evaluations and provide evidence-based insights to inform policy decisions.

The role leads a multi-disciplinary team of social researchers, engages with policy colleagues and industry partners, and ensures programmes deliver value for money and learning for future policy development.