Evaluation Officer

**Evaluation Officer**:
**This is a full-time permanent role (37hrs per week) based in York**:
The Monitoring and Evaluation Team play a vital role in ensuring STEM Learning's continued success. Our sector leading approach to evaluation helps teachers to learn what works, shows our funders the impact of our programmes, and ensures what we do is of the highest quality. This is your chance to use your skills and experience to lead evaluations of large-scale education support programmes and distil your findings into key messages that are shared across the education sector.

Join the leader in STEM education and we can help you grow and develop as an evaluation specialist. You can make a real difference by helping us inform government and key stakeholders of what is working (and what isn't) in our education system.

**The Role**:

- Ensuring projects and programmes are evaluated effectively and realistically.
- Designing appropriate evaluations, and effectively communicating outputs to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Working with Programme Management staff to identify and, where appropriate, implement mitigating actions or to escalate issues.
- Ensuring appropriate data are collected, analysed and interpreted, including embedding information from multiple sources in preparation for research and reporting internally and externally.
- Supporting the management, further development and use of internal evaluation systems and tools to collect, analyse and interpret data for reporting, monitoring and presentation to various internal and external stakeholders.
- Conducting external evaluation and research of STEM Learning projects, including liaising with external evaluators and STEM Learning staff.
- Inputting to and managing the dissemination and use of research and evaluation evidence to internal and external stakeholders, supporting continuous improvement on the STEM Learning offer. Assisting in the development of proposals for new work. Engaging in learning and development activities appropriate to the skills and competences required to fulfil the position.
- Adhering to ethical standards and data protection protocols.
- A background in social research or project evaluation, with proven skills in a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods and research designs.
- An understanding of end-to-end evaluation, including designing, developing and implementing effective approaches.
- Knowledge of statistical methods of data analysis, basic programming and database skills.
- Experience of managing and manipulating large datasets.
- Planning and organisational skills with experience of managing contracts and projects.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience of report writing.
- A proven ability to interact effectively with internal and external stakeholders, preferably including government departments and senior leaders.
- An ability to work to tight deadlines and on own initiative.
- An appreciation and understanding of STEM education and a commitment to the vision and mission of STEM Learning.
- Willingness to engage in professional learning and development activities.

**About Us**:
At STEM Learning we will provide you with the opportunity to work at a world-leading organisation, renowned as a thought leader in STEM education support.

Our mission is to achieve a world-leading education for all young people in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing.

We achieve this by operating the National STEM Learning Centre and Network; providing support locally, through Science Learning Partnerships, Computing Hubs and the STEM Ambassador network across England, and partners in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; alongside a range of other projects supporting STEM education.

**Our Benefits**:

- 30 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Access to an excellent pension scheme
- A comprehensive employee assistance programme
- Access to a voluntary staff benefits scheme including cycle to work loan scheme; health cash back plans; free eye tests; discounted vouchers and much more

**Next Steps**:
**To Apply***:
**Please provide us with**:

- Your up-to-date CV
- Contact details of two referees, including your current/most recent employer (please note, references will not be approached without your permission).