Description

Youth Futures Foundation is the national What Works Centre for youth employment, with a specific focus on marginalised young people. 

The Senior Evidence & Evaluation Manager will play a central role in building the evidence base on what works to support young people into good jobs.

You will sit within the Impact & Evidence directorate at the heart of Youth Futures Foundation.

Working with three Heads of Evaluation, the Deputy Director and the Director, you will help ensure our evaluations are designed to generate credible evidence of what works.

You will:

• Lead the design, commissioning and management of impact evaluations, including RCTs and QEDs. This will include feasibility or developmental work where interventions are not yet ready for full impact evaluation.
• Work closely with independent evaluators and delivery partners and colleagues in our Programmes & Grants and Policy & Communications directorates to assess the evaluability of interventions, and lead the design and delivery of large-scale, complex impact evaluations.
• Contribute to strengthening our ‘evaluation architecture’, leading projects that enhance data infrastructure and access to administrative datasets, and set standards for methodological rigour in the sector.
• In addition, you will lead other aspects of the team’s commissioning. This may include developing policies and processes, supporting the Heads of Evaluation to strengthen commissioning practice.

This role can be based at our Birmingham, Leeds or London hub. We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home.

To apply for this role and to download the full job description. please visit our website.

Requirements

• Significant knowledge/experience of evaluation methodologies, including RCTs, gained within a commissioning or research setting
• Strong experience critically appraising data, evidence and research literature 
• Excellent track record of project-managing research and evaluation projects 
• Significant experience leading the design of mixed-methods evaluations 
• Proven ability to foster and sustain positive, collaborative relationships internally and externally
• Strong track record of contributing to strategic planning across a portfolio of complex evaluation projects to achieve meaningful change