Evaluation and Impact Specialist Teach First is a charity that believes education is the most powerful tool to help a child fulfil their potential. We find and train teachers to work in the schools that need them most, we equip school leaders with evidence-led training, we support local teacher training providers, and we plug education leaders into supportive professional networks. We are a community, working within the classroom and beyond, to bring an end to educational inequality. Because a child's future shouldn't depend on their postcode. The role The rundown: The Evaluation and Impact department is a part of Teach First’s Ambassadors & Audiences direc- torate. We help Teach First utilise its resources to improve the lives of children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Our role is to gather and analyse evidence of our impact as effectively and efficiently as possible to improve the work of Teach First. We work closely with colleagues across the organisation to help generate, refine and review evidence, find ways of illuminating Teach First’s achievements and highlight areas for improvement. You will strive to evaluate impact over process to under- stand the progress we are making to both our vision and our strategy. This role will lead the evaluation of a specific set of our programmes, helping colleagues learn what works and what should be improved. As an experienced evaluation professional, you will work in a team engaging in high quality research and evaluation, which may change over time to meet emerging priorities. The detail: day-to-day work • Designing and planning mixed-methods programme evaluations. • Designing and building evaluation tools to measure & understand programme members’ experience. • Designing and building evaluation tools to measure & understand programme members’ learning outcomes (e.g. knowledge acquisition and ability to apply that knowledge). • Collecting & analysing both quantitative data (e.g. online learning and survey data) and qualitative data (e.g. interview data). • Project managing external evaluations of Teach First activities where funding arrangements, or scale, require this. • Contributing to a termly review across our programmes of what we have learned about our impact. • Working closely with other teams to communicate results and ensure that the learning from our evalua- tions is effectively shared and influences programme improvement priorities. • Building the profile of our findings, including publishing reports on the charity website, and presenting findings to different Teach First teams and potentially external audiences. • Engaging with the wider evaluation and education sectors to identify good monitoring and evaluation practice and investigate ways in which this might be used within Teach First. You’ll take ownership for: • The design and delivery of our annual evaluation cycles for a portfolio of our programmes. • Delivery of evaluations that meet both contractual requirements and the needs of our programme teams. • Leading through governance to ensure evaluations are anticipated and used to drive continuous improvement. • Moving evaluations through away from outputs and towards impact over time. • Ensuring that our planned evaluation activity is both testing programme theories and connecting to our overall impact map. 1 About you The Essentials: make sure you demonstrate these in your application. Even if you think you don't quite tick all the boxes we want to hear from you. More info on how the role fits in with the rest of the team and charity: You’ll report to: Head of Evaluation and Impact This position is a level 3 role. Take a look at our role levels and where you’ll fit in. Executive Director of Ambassadors & Audiences Head of Evaluation & Impact Evaluation & Impact Specialist x4 • • • • • • You have an in-depth knowledge and experience of evaluation techniques and research methods. You have experience designing and implementing programme or policy evaluations using quantitative and quantitative research methods. You have experience designing and building surveys and qualitative data collection tools. You have excellent skills in collecting, managing, reporting on qualitative and analysing and quantitative data and research. You have excellent project management and stakeholder management skills. You have ability complex evaluation and research audiences manner. to effectively communicate to in an understandable and usable findings The nice to haves: we want to hear from you even if you can’t demonstrate these yet. We’re looking for potential, so tell us about what you can bring to the role. • • • • • You may have experience building data models and visualisations in Power BI. You may have experience using statistics in programme or policy evaluations. inferential You have experience evaluating programmes or policies in the education sector. You have experience designing and/or delivering learning programmes or activities for adults. You should have a commitment to and knowledge of advancing diversity and inclusion. The main responsibilities of this role are described here. As our needs as a charity change, we may need to make reasonable changes from time to time. We succeed when we work together. Here’s who you’ll be working with regularly: • • • • • Ambassador & Audiences directorate Heads of Programmes Heads of Delivery Digital, Data & Technology directorate Strategy Managers More about working for us There’s lots of great stuff about working here. For full details pop over to our webpages. Our culture: We live by our principles. They underpin our culture and identity. And inform everything we do. Find our more about our cultural principles Diversity and inclusion: We want to be a place where everyone can perform, learn and contribute with the confidence to be themselves. We particularly welcome applications from candidates who are disabled; Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic; Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans including non-binary, and related communities; and candidates whose socio-economic background reflects that of the pupils we work with. We’re committed to better representing the communities we serve. Find out more about what we’re doing to improve our diversity and inclusion. This role is suitable for agile and flexible working Our agile way of working gives you flexibility. Need to start late, finish early or fancy a change of scenery? That’s fine, our Agile Working policy focuses on what you achieve, not presenteeism. If you need a set and regular working pattern to support your life have a chat with us about flexible working options. Over 100 of us already have a flexible working agreement, with more than 70 different working patterns in place. We’re ready to hear your request. Find out more via our flexible working policy on our webpages. Our benefits: Our mission is critical and the work’s important, but so’s your life. We’ve put together a benefits package that means you can live and work well. Find out more on our Working at Teach First webpages. Registered charity no 1098294 3