Towns Fund Evaluation Lead

5 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 307394**Salary**:

- £49,697-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Levelling Up Directors**Type of role**:

- Economist
- Social Research**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Levelling up is the UK Government’s top domestic priority and this is your chance to be part of an analytical team that is at the heart of this programme of work.

The Local Growth Analysis division is a multi-disciplinary team of economists, statisticians, and social researchers that works across both the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and the Department for Business and Trade. The division provides high quality, innovative analysis that is instrumental in the delivery of the Government’s agenda on Levelling Up and local economic growth across the UK.

You will be a key member of a G6-led team that leads on evaluating Levelling Up funding programmes. The team offers a fast-moving, friendly, and intellectually stimulating environment, where you can help evaluate some of the Government’s highest-profile programmes, building a high-quality evidence base of what works, and why. The team is delivering evaluations for several multi-billion-pound Levelling Up programmes, including the Towns Fund and the Levelling Up Fund.

You will work closely with senior officials and ministers across HMG, and within local government, as you lead on the evaluation of the Towns Fund and contribute to the evaluation of other Levelling Up programmes.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of an inclusive, welcoming team that is advancing our collective understanding of what works for Levelling Up. Our insights are essential for designing and delivering policies that deliver real change for communities and places across the UK.

We are a team that is keen to look beyond Whitehall, be creative, forward thinking, and inclusive in our approach, and we welcome applicants with diverse experiences, backgrounds and characteristics.

**Job description**:
Ever wanted to be at the forefront of developing an innovative new package of evaluations which will be at the heart of levelling up across HMG? Really getting to understand what’s happening across localities in the UK, understanding the impacts of levelling up expenditure - at national, regional, local authority and even smaller scales. And helping to understand what works in local economic growth.

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- Overseeing the evaluations of the £3.2bn Towns Fund, Local Growth Fund and Getting Building Fund programmes, working closely with evaluation contractors and other stakeholders to ensure the projects are delivered successfully.
- Contributing to decisions about the design and delivery of the process, impact, and value for money evaluations for these programmes.
- Working with monitoring and secondary administrative data, to ensure it is of sufficient quality and that it can used as part of the evaluations.
- Working with key stakeholders, including programme teams, other government departments, and local authorities, to ensure their priorities and any concerns are being addressed.
- Liaising and working with the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth, academics, and other external evaluation experts.
- Working flexibly across the team’s high-profile programme of evaluations - contributing to, and potentially leading on, evaluations for other Levelling Up programmes and strategic projects aimed at building the evaluation capability within DLUHC.

**Person specification**:
**Key skills**

This is a high profile post, requiring technical evaluation, analytical and project management skills.
- Essential skills:_
- Strong technical knowledge, and experience, of designing and running impact evaluations, ideally involving a range of different methods.
- Strong project management skills covering all aspects of design, delivery, and reporting.
- The ability to manage primary data collection, showing consideration for effectiveness and efficiency, for example, minimising respondent burdens.
- Experience of analysing administrative and/or secondary data using innovative techniques, ideally for the purposes of evaluation.
- Quality assuring the use and interpretation of data, analysis, and research.
- Experience of delivering to tight and multiple deadlines and under pressure, whilst ensuring the quality of your work and that of contractors.
- Able to communicate complex analysis in a clear and coherent way.
- Able to establish strong working relationships with a range of policy and analytical colleagues and relevant external agencies.
- A good knowledge and/or experi

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