Evaluation Manager
Motability Foundation
- Harlow, Essex
- £45,000-48,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work with programme and Innovation teams to support the development of programme/project specific monitoring and evaluation plans, theories of change and results frameworks. This will involve building capacity of these teams, and working with other charities and organisations who are recipients of Motability Foundation's grants.
- Lead on design and implementation of evaluations that assess organisational and specific programme/project level relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, social and economic impact.
- Develop terms of reference for various evaluations, in consultation with programmes and Innovation teams, with clear purpose, objectives and evaluation questions, approach, methodology, resource requirements and work plan.
- Design evaluation approaches and methodologies, data collection instruments and analysis frameworks.
- Lead on tender processes, where evaluations or components of them are to be outsourced, and manage delivery ensuring the work is delivered according to agreed timelines and meets user needs.
- Undertake and oversee design, collection and cleaning of data ready for analysis.
- Undertake analysis and reporting of the collected data to respond to the evaluation questions and criteria.
- Lead on writing evaluation reports, ensuring they are of high quality and suitable for target audiences.
- Present findings to internal and external audiences as required.
- Support programme and Innovation managers and teams to meaningfully report outcome and impact data.
- Facilitate learning by supporting programme and Innovation managers and teams to reflect on and learn from evaluation findings.
- Experience of monitoring and evaluating interventions with a focus on undertaking process evaluations, measuring outcomes and impact using a variety of methodologies and techniques.
- Experience of supporting and facilitating others to develop logical frameworks and monitoring and evaluation plans to ensure the right monitoring data is collected.
- Relevant qualification in an analytical discipline such as social sciences, economics or statistics, or evidence of professional experience in the area of evaluation.
- Highly experienced in developing evaluation terms of reference working closely with programme teams.
- Ability to lead on design, delivery and implementation of monitoring and evaluation for project and programmes.
- Familiarity with handling data protection protocols, ensuring data security and ethical considerations.
- Highly experienced in report writing.
- Exceptional written and oral skills, including the ability to present complex information in simplified form for non-technical audiences.
- Highly IT literate with extensive experience of using Microsoft Office applications.
- Understanding of disability, mobility and accessible design issues.
- Experience calculating cost/benefit analysis and social return on investment.
- Experience of using statistical software.