Evaluation Manager - Harlow, United Kingdom - Motability Foundation

Description

Salary: £48,000 to £50,000 per annumLocation: The role is based In Harlow, Essex at the Motability Foundation's offices, easily commutable from London, 30 minutes from Liverpool Street station or 18 minutes from Tottenham Hale station.

At the Motability Foundation we fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. As an Evaluation Manager you will have an important role, providing technical expertise to ensure the right data is collected during implementation to help us evaluate impact in the longer-term. We are dedicated to ensuring we deliver impactful projects and programmes and are committed to identifying improvements to further our potential impact.

This role will be closely, though not solely, working with our Innovation team which is looking at new ways for the Foundation to support accessible travel

What you'll be doing:

• Work with programme and Innovation teams to support the development of programme/project specific monitoring and evaluation plans, theories of change and results frameworks. This will involve building capacity of these teams, and working with other charities and organisations who are recipients of Motability Foundation's grants.
• Lead on design and implementation of evaluations that assess organisational and specific programme/project level relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, social and economic impact.
• Develop terms of reference for various evaluations, in consultation with programmes and Innovation teams, with clear purpose, objectives and evaluation questions, approach, methodology, resource requirements and work plan.
• Design evaluation approaches and methodologies, data collection instruments and analysis frameworks.
• Lead on tender processes, where evaluations or components of them are to be outsourced, and manage delivery ensuring the work is delivered according to agreed timelines and meets user needs.
• Undertake and oversee design, collection and cleaning of data ready for analysis.
• Undertake analysis and reporting of the collected data to respond to the evaluation questions and criteria.
• Lead on writing evaluation reports, ensuring they are of high quality and suitable for target audiences.
• Present findings to internal and external audiences as required.
• Support programme and Innovation managers and teams to meaningfully report outcome and impact data.
• Facilitate learning by supporting programme and Innovation managers and teams to reflect on and learn from evaluation findings.

About you:

Must haves:

• Experience of monitoring and evaluating interventions with a focus on undertaking process evaluations, measuring outcomes and impact using a variety of methodologies and techniques.
• Experience of supporting and facilitating others to develop logical frameworks and monitoring and evaluation plans to ensure the right monitoring data is collected.
• Relevant qualification in an analytical discipline such as social sciences, economics or statistics, or evidence of professional experience in the area of evaluation.
• Highly experienced in developing evaluation terms of reference working closely with programme teams.
• Ability to lead on design, delivery and implementation of monitoring and evaluation for project and programmes.
• Familiarity with handling data protection protocols, ensuring data security and ethical considerations.
• Highly experienced in report writing.
• Exceptional written and oral skills, including the ability to present complex information in simplified form for non-technical audiences.
• Highly IT literate with extensive experience of using Microsoft Office applications.
  

Nice to haves:

• Understanding of disability, mobility and accessible design issues.
• Experience calculating cost/benefit analysis and social return on investment.
• Experience of using statistical software.

Motability Foundation

At Motability Foundation we fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Foundation Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year.

We award grants to other charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Benefits

WHAT MOTABILITY CAN OFFER YOU

A career with Motability can offer you so much more than earning potential. We pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits and a culture to match, some of which includes;

Holiday – 26 Days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after 5 years' service

Health and Wellbeing – We offer private health care with BUPA alongside an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and discounted corporate gym membership. We take your physical AND Mental Health seriously, with our dedicated mental health first aiders you will have support and understanding from your colleagues.

Family Friendly – We offer enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay and we understand that families require flexibility, we provide time off for dependants, flexible working hours and the option to work from home. Life Assurance is 4 x your salary.

Diversity and Inclusion - We value everyone's unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves, no matter their age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity or otherwise. This is embedded in to our values and we celebrate our differences and create awareness throughout the year.

Celebrating Success – We love to recognise people that go above and beyond with our Spotlight Award as well as having team celebrations and social events throughout the year.

Our culture - In the Motability office we "dress for our day", it's an incredibly welcoming and inclusive environment where we look to support your career, we offer a mini bus service from Harlow Town centre and station for those using public transport to reach us and there are plenty of free hot beverages for when you arrive.

Pension – Up to 15%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%

How to find out more?

To find out more regarding the vacancy and for the full job description, please contact our Talent Team at:

Here at Motability Foundation, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

We are a disability confident employer, so please do make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you might need throughout both the recruitment process and to work with us.

We are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you have applied please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we will offer you an interview.