Senior Evidence and Evaluation Manager

The Senior Evidence and Evaluation Manager will play a central role in building the evidence base on what works to support young people into good jobs. You will sit within the Impact and Evidence directorate at the heart of Youth Futures Foundation. Working with three Heads of Evaluation, the Deputy Director and the Director, you will help ensure our evaluations are designed to generate credible evidence of what works. You will: lead the design, commissioning and management of impact evaluations, including RCTs and QEDs. This will include feasibility or developmental work where interventions are not yet ready for full impact evaluation. work closely with independent evaluators and delivery partners and colleagues in our Programmes and Grants and Policy and Communications directorates to assess the evaluability of interventions, and lead the design and delivery of large-scale, complex impact evaluations. contribute to strengthening our ''evaluation architecture'', leading projects that enhance data infrastructure and access to administrative datasets, and set standards for methodological rigour in the sector. In addition, you will lead other aspects of the team''s commissioning. This may include developing policies and processes, supporting the Heads of Evaluation to strengthen commissioning practice. This role can be based at our Birmingham, Leeds or London hub. We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home. For more ..... full job details .....