Evaluation Officer Public and Community Engagement

Job number

**PRO01215**
- Faculties

**Provost’s Team**
- Salary or Salary range

**£45,700 - £55,240 per annum**
- Location/campus

**South Kensington Campus - Hybrid**
- Contract type work pattern

**Full time - Open ended**
- Posting End Date

**9 Feb 2025**

**About the role**:
An interesting and varied role, the Evaluation Officer (Public and Community Engagement) works as part of Imperial's central Public and Community Engagement team. You will help to better understand, evidence and enhance the impact of our societal engagement activities such as festivals, school holiday activities, community partnerships and creative events. Join us at this exciting time as we launch our new Centre for Societal Engagement at Imperial.

**What you would be doing**:
As our new Evaluation Officer, you will:

- Support teams to develop fun, meaningful and inclusive evaluation for a range of audiences and creative engagement activities.
- Contribute to reporting for many different stakeholders, at departmental through to institutional levels.
- Help colleagues to develop analytical, evaluation and reporting skills and confidence.
- Collate and maintain excellent data, monitoring trends and drawing out new insights and understanding.
- Share learnings from evaluation with our teams and wider networks, ensuring our work has value and impact.

**What we are looking for**:

- An experienced evaluator, who has devised and delivered evaluations for a range of programmes involving publics or communities.
- Someone with excellent analytical skills and attention to detail, who produces robust and insightful work.
- A communicator who can tell a compelling and concise story from data and present findings in varied and engaging ways.
- A team player who is keen to support others to learn and embed evaluation practice into the work of our department.
- A reflective and curious mindset, with a passion for evaluation and research.

**What we can offer you**:

- The opportunity to join Imperial and play a part in this exciting new phase of our societal engagement journey, as we launch the Centre for Societal Engagement.
- Work with fantastic and friendly colleagues, passionate about engaging the public with STEMB for societal benefit.
- The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution and be part of our mission to use science for humanity.
- Benefit from a sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 39 days’ annual leave and generous pension schemes).
- Access to a range of workplace benefits including a flexible working policy from day one, interest-free season ticket loan schemes for travel, generous family leave packages, on-site leisure facilities and cycle-to-work scheme.
- Be part of a diverse, inclusive and collaborative work culture with various staff networks and resources to support your personal and professional wellbeing.

The Public and Community Engagement team sit within the Societal Engagement Division of Imperial and support staff and students across the university to engage the public with their work and research. We deliver events, festivals, school holiday programmes and activities for adults, young people, community groups, families and more. To support our colleagues develop engagement skills, we run training, seed funds, awards and networks. Our team is friendly, creative and passionate, and we value diversity of voices and ideas in all areas of our work.

**Further information**:
Application deadline is midnight on 9 February 2025

Interviews will be held on 25 - 26 February 2025

**Available documents**:

- Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.- Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities mentioned above.

**About Imperial**:
Welcome to Imperial, a global top ten university where scientific imagination leads to world-changing impact.

Join us and be part of something bigger. From global health to climate change, AI to business leadership, here at Imperial we navigate some of the world’s toughest challenges. Whatever your role, your contribution will have a lasting impact.

As a member of our vibrant community of 22,000 students and 8,000 staff, you’ll collaborate with passionate minds across nine London campuses and a global network.

This is your chance to help shape the future. We hope you’ll join us at Imperial College London.

**Our Culture**:
Our values are at the root of everything we do and everyone in our community is expected to demonstrate respect, collaboration, excellence, integrity, and innovation.