Evidence and Impact Lead

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

- 301184**Salary**:

- £50,694 - £57,654- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- CO - Civil Service Human Resources - Sitting in the Cabinet Office, the Government People Group (GPG) exists to work with departments, professions, and functions to build a modern, effective Civil Service through a skilled, capable workforce.**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Social Research**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

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- Glasgow, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Job description**:
The Government Skills and Curriculum Unit (GSCU) was set up in 2020 to drive up capability across Government in an evidence-based and impact-led way. GSCU ensures all civil servants, from entry to most senior leadership, have the core and specialist knowledge, skills and networks they need to deliver great public services and address complex systemic challenges, now and in the future. This mission is delivered through the Government Campus which unifies a wide range of learning and development interventions organised around an innovative and future-facing core curriculum for Civil Servants. This work is central to the Government Modernisation and Reform policy area.

The Curriculum and Campus team is at the heart of the Government Campus, owning and developing the Curriculum for Government, designing and implementing a range of interventions focused on developing the core and specialist skills of all civil servants, and developing transformative commercial and digital solutions to enable this critical work.

As Evidence and Impact Lead, Campus and Curriculum you will be the lead analyst supporting the Campus and Curriculum team. You will lead the development of an evidence base which identifies how we can best develop the core and specialist knowledge, skills and networks civil servants need. You will use purposeful and robust monitoring, evaluation, research and evidence synthesis to develop this evidence base. You will work with a wide range of colleagues to ensure this evidence base informs all aspects of our work, ensuring we are consistently evidence-based and impact led in everything we do.

There are a wide range of analytical projects you may become involved with, being responsive to the priorities of the Campus and our wider stakeholders. This is likely to include monitoring and evaluation for a Government major project. You will report to the Head of Evidence and Impact and will be part of the Government Campus analytical leadership team. Within this structure you will take on a corporate contribution for enabling great evidence and impact work right across the Campus.

Specific responsibilities:

- Lead work to strengthen monitoring and evaluation of Campus and Curriculum interventions, working across the full cycle of intervention design and delivery. As part of this work, design and deliver impact, process and value-for-money evaluation of Campus and Curriculum interventions, with a particular focus on strengthening impact evaluation.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders to identify, prioritise and thematically connect longer term and immediate evidence needs and identify and implement robust approaches to address them, using and developing your own knowledge of the evidence base and drawing on appropriate external evidence and expertise.
- Manage internal and external delivery of analysis, ensuring commissioning, delivery and reporting are robust, purposeful, efficient and aligned with the Government Campus Evaluation Strategy and other relevant policies, including the Magenta Book.
- Develop and implement appropriate data and evaluation approaches with current and future external suppliers of learning and development interventions, supporting two substantial commercial and digital procurement and business change projects.
- Support work to evaluate the impact and implementation of the Government Campus as an integrated, complex intervention.

**Person specification**:
Essential:

- Strong technical knowledge of relevant evaluation and social research methods including knowledge of experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation designs, other quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches to evidence synthesis.
- Established track record of successfully designing, implementing, managing and delivering research and/or evaluation projects, including complex projects. This should include experience of translating business requirements into robust specifications that will meet customer needs, and managing resources and teams and/or external contractors to deliver high quality, purposeful and timely products.
- Established track record of managing a diverse portfolio of research/evaluation work whilst delivering at pace, and of