Senior Evaluation Manager

M E L Research is a social research agency, with expertise in research, evaluation and behavioural insights. With 40 years’ experience in working for the UK’s public services, we have a very strong focus on what we want to achieve as a business.

We believe that all businesses have a duty to be socially responsible to re-invest in society, be active contributors to the local community, and to minimise their environmental impacts. We push for social value – in why we work, how we work and who we work with.  to see our recently published Social Value report.

You can read more about what it is like to work at M E L Research here .

Our history and journey

Formed in 1985, M E L Research has grown steadily to a core in-house team of over 30 research and evaluation staff, plus many more telephone interviewers and external CAPI interviewers and support staff. We are on an exciting growth journey, expanding our research and insights capabilities, enhancing our evaluation services, and embedding our data visualisation tools alongside recognised quality accreditations.

Joining M E L Research means becoming part of a confident and forward-looking company, ambitious about the future and committed to broadening the expertise and solutions we offer our clients. At the heart of everything we do is our social purpose: to make a meaningful and lasting difference to society, to the communities we serve, and to our own people.

Full details on what it is like to work for M E L Research can be foundhere .

We offer employees a wide range of generous benefits including:

• Flexible working arrangements based around the needs of the employee (such as family commitments/needs/childcare). We are a very family-orientated business and encourage flexible hours and homeworking.
• Provision of employer contributions to Royal London personal pension scheme starting from a 4% contribution and rising to 8% (subject to employee contributions that meet the auto-enrolment requirements)
• In addition, paid annual leave allowance of 33 days per annum, including bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time hours), and your birthday
• Life assurance policy at 3x basic annual salary
• Health cashback medical care scheme and employee benefits scheme inc. retail discounts
• Eligibility for annual company profit and performance bonus scheme dependent on company performance
• Annual pay reviews and cost-of-living pay increases (also subject to the company’s financial performance).

Post:Senior Evaluation Manager

Job Location:Remote (with a requirement to occasionally come into the Birmingham office)

Reporting to:Senior Evaluation Lead

Salary Range:£40,000-£45,000 depending on experience (37.5 Hours per week) plus potential profit bonus, pension and other benefits.

This person specification details the experience, knowledge, skills, ability, training, education and qualifications that are considered to be essential to fulfilling the requirements of this post.

Please demonstrate in your covering letter, using appropriate examples where possible, that you have the skills and experience to meet the following criteria for the post. Your ability to meet the criteria will be assessed using a number of methods including your CV, covering letter, interview, and where applicable presentation or work-based tests.

• Applicants must be UK residents with the right to work in the UK
• Over 5 years’ experience in managing and delivering evaluation and research projects from start to finish e.g. designing an evaluation project, undertaking literature reviews and other desk/secondary research, implementing qualitative and quantitative research methods as required, analysing and interpreting data, and preparing and presenting client reports
• Experience of working with public sector/third sector clients
• Experience of bidding and pitching for new work.
• Experience in developing logic models and Theories of Change.
• Experience in developing evaluation frameworks and utilising different evaluation approaches.

Your knowledge and skills

• In-depth understanding of both qualitative and quantitative research, evaluation projects and ability to recommend most appropriate evaluation design to meet a client brief.
• Ability…