Head of Impact

How do you measure impact in complex human systems? At SHiFT, we work with children and young adults caught in cycles of harm, exploitation, exclusion and crime - often across multiple overlapping systems including social care, education, youth justice, policing and mental health services. We are looking for our first Head of Impact to help answer difficult questions: What does meaningful change look like in complex lives? How do we evaluate relational and systems-based interventions? What counts as credible evidence in messy real-world environments? How do we generate learning that improves practice, not just reporting? This is not a conventional impact role. You will build an organisation-wide approach to evaluation, evidence and learning that helps us: Improve outcomes for children. Strengthen frontline practice. Influence wider systems change. WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS NOW SHiFT has been busy developing our data and insights infrastructure and is now entering an exciting phase of focus on systems change, and this role is central to our next stage of development. We are looking for a senior leader who can build a high-quality impact and evaluation function that demonstrates the difference SHiFT makes for children, young people and systems. As Head of Impact, you will hold organisation-wide accountability for evaluation strategy, evidence quality and impact measurement. You will lead the design of robust frameworks that assess outcomes at child, practice and systems level, ..... full job details .....