Description
Job title: Senior Evidence & Evaluation Manager
Closing date: Tuesday 27 October 2026, 10am
Location: Birmingham, Leeds or London
Term: Fixed term – 12 month contract
Full Time –37.5 hours per week
Salary: £47,226 - £53,364 per annum
Link to our website: https://youthfuturesfoundation.org/opportunity/senior-evidence-evaluation-manager-4/
Background
Youth Futures Foundation is the What Works Centre for youth employment. We exist to address the significant disparities in youth employment for marginalised groups. We want to ensure that all young people are able to access and keep good quality jobs.
The Senior Evidence and Evaluation Manager sits within the Impact and Evidence directorate at the heart of Youth Futures Foundation.
You will play a central role in building the evidence base on what works to support young people into good jobs.
Working with three Heads of Evaluation, the Deputy Director and the Director of Impact and Evidence, you will help ensure our evaluations are designed to generate credible and useful evidence.
Your primary focus will be to lead the management and delivery of evaluation and evidence generation for Connected Futures.
Working closely with independent evaluators, local partnerships and colleagues across Youth Futures, you will lead evaluations that help partnerships learn as their work develops and build credible evidence of systems change
You will manage a portfolio of projects across our evaluation portfolio, leading some directly and overseeing others while supporting Evaluation Managers.
This role is a 12 months Fixed Term Contract (FTC) and 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.
For more information on this role and to apply, please visit our website
The young people we aim to serve – and the challenges they face - are all unique. We are looking to build a team that reflects this diversity. Our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, class, religion, identity, and experience forms the cornerstone of our work. We are an equal opportunities, Living Wage and Disability Confident employer and encourage applications from a diverse range of backgrounds representative of our communities. We offer a welcoming and inclusive workplace, where employees are encouraged to have a voice.
