Evaluation Manager/ Rheolwr Gwerthuso

At The National Lottery Community Fund we are committed to making a bigger difference. Our 2030 strategy ''It starts with community'' puts impact at the heart of what we do and our Evidence and Impact Strategy explains how we will do this. We want to transform the use of evidence in our organisation to identify the communities that most need our funding and demonstrate the difference we make. We''re recruiting for an Evaluation Manager to join our Impact and Evaluation Team. In this role, you will design, commission and manage large-scale, complexity-appropriate evaluations, focused on programmes in England that are funded via Dormant Assets. You''ll also be involved in UK-wide work about the impact of Dormant Assets funding in other parts of the UK. And, you will advocate for the importance of high quality evaluation. A typical week in the role might include: a contract management meeting with an external contractor to feedback on a Theory of Change they have developed developing an evaluation Invitation to Tender with internal funding colleagues discussing learning from a recent evaluation conference with peers in the Impact and Evaluation team meeting with analysts in the civil service to discuss overlap between an evaluation you are managing and work they are doing. Your strong evaluation expertise will be complemented by stakeholder management skills that mean you to get the best from contracts we procure. You''ll effectively communicate evaluation findings to a ..... full job details .....