Evaluation Senior Specialist

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

- 258989**Salary**:

- £33,763**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- Senior Specialist**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Environment and Sustainability**Working pattern**:

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

- 3Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the HumberAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- This position is based Nationally**Job description**:
The team

Do you have a passion for nature and the environment? Do you want to make a real difference and secure significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in a team? Can you see yourself advising communities and customers to maximise gains for the Natural Environment?

If this appeals to you, a career at Natural England offers rewarding opportunities to secure environmental improvements and play your part in creating a better future for people and nature.

The priority work Natural England is delivering includes:

- Establishing a Nature Recovery Network to help wildlife thrive
- Monitoring environmental changes to identify and help reduce the effects of climate change
- Working with farmers and landowners to develop greener food production methods
- Advising on plans for new developments to maximise gains for nature
- Providing ways for people to better connect with nature, including green social prescribing

We are the Government’s advisor for the natural environment, playing a vital role in delivering the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, an ambitious vision which brings new opportunities to protect and enhance and to achieve real outcomes for the environment.

**About the role**

We’re looking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced evaluator to be part of a growing team of specialists leading our approach to understanding what works for the natural environment. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing area in Natural England, and to work at the forefront of the implementation of our Science, Evidence and Evaluation Strategy.

We are ambitious about the role of evaluation in Natural England, and the Evaluation Team is leading work on how Natural England can become a learning organisation. We see evaluation as crucial in helping us to deliver better outcomes and in securing greater investment in the natural environment. The work of the team includes raising capability, providing direct advice on priority evaluations, embedding evaluation in our systems and processes and playing a leadership role across the environmental sector.

**Key tasks**:

- Planning and designing evaluations of high priority interventions, working closely with policy and delivery leads to do so.
- Leading on the development and embedding of a quality assurance process for evaluation, including a new Evidence Standard for Evaluation.
- Delivering workshops, webinars and presentations to support with evaluation planning and raise awareness of evaluation across the organisation.
- Working with other team members to deliver a programme of evaluation capability building and guidance.
- Developing strong partnerships with external delivery and policy organisations including with Defra, the wider Defra group as well as appropriate professional bodies, for example the Defra Evaluation Community of Practice and UK Evaluation Society.

Job description

**Benefits**:
Wherever possible Natural England accommodates requests for both full-time and part-time hours and other flexible working patterns to help employees achieve a good work/life balance and maintain their health and wellbeing.

Natural England provides excellent opportunities for career progression, training and development tailored to your role. From induction to ongoing learning and development, everyone in Natural England is supported to develop their skills and capabilities. Everyone has 10 days to devote to personal learning and development, as well as an additional 3 days to volunteer.

You will have access to Civil Service Pension and benefits arrangements and generous leave allowances (33 day per year pro rata), as well as flexible working, to help you achieve a work-life balance that works for you and us.

You will have access to a range of benefits including discounts on shopping vouchers, cycle to work scheme, and childcare vouchers. You can also join the Civil Service Sport club which offer discounts on a range of sports and leisure opportunities as well as social events.

Natural England is a fantastic place to work, where difference is celebrated.

We’re committed to fairness and equality for all, so you feel valued for who you are and what you do. Our shared values help us work together to benefit the communities we serve. Our thriving employee-led divers