Senior Impact and Evaluation Manager

Overview

In this role you will design and deliver a monitoring, evaluation and impact strategy for the Research Programme on Gambling (RPG). You will work within a small cross-UKRI team to demonstrate the programme’s value to government and the research community. You’ll oversee logic models, KPIs and reporting cycles, translating data into clear, decision-ready insights. This fixed-term position offers the chance to shape a high-profile, evidence-led initiative addressing gambling-related harms. You will collaborate across funders and stakeholders to ensure credible, impactful outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• defined benefit pension scheme
• 30 days’ annual leave plus public and privilege days
• employee discounts and offers
• employee assistance programme
• flexible working options
• wellbeing initiatives

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver the programme’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) strategy
• Support regular reporting to DCMS
• Engage with the RPG portfolio to monitor progress and identify outcomes and impacts
• Collaborate with UKRI councils and corporate functions to enable delivery
• Report to the Head of Research Programme on Gambling
• Develop logic models, theories of change, SMART objectives, baselines and metrics
• Contribute to programme-level KPIs and reporting requirements
• Analyse quantitative and qualitative data to produce evidence-based insights
• Support external evaluations and DCMS reporting, and contribute to analyses
• Build internal and external relationships to collect data, case studies and impact evidence

Key requirements

• PhD in a relevant discipline or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Understanding of the UK research funding landscape and its societal impact
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation, analysis, or programme delivery with metrics/frameworks
• Analytical skills to interpret and synthesize data into insights
• Experience contributing to reporting processes and producing high-quality outputs
• Ability to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• stakeholder management
• clear written and verbal communication
• collaborative, cross-functional collaboration
• monitoring and evaluation frameworks
• metrics and performance measurement
• logic models and theories of change

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