Evidence and Data Lead

Evidence & Data Lead

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are committed to celebrating and supporting diversity. We know we will thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and services, and our community. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from people with experiences of homelessness.

IN A NUTSHELL

The Centre for Homelessness Impact is looking for an Evidence & Data Lead to help grow and deliver our evidence, evaluation and data work.

We are particularly looking for someone with strong quantitative skills who is comfortable working with numbers and complex datasets, designing and quality-assuring impact evaluations, and translating statistical findings into clear insights for policy and practice.

The ideal candidate will have a range of quantitative and evaluation tools and methods that they can deploy flexibly depending on the question s could include designing and overseeing Randomised Controlled Trials and quasi-experimental evaluations; analysing administrative, survey and financial data; undertaking statistical analysis; and critically assessing and synthesising evidence.

Candidates will have a knack for translating their findings into simple, yet meaningful messages for policy, service design, innovation and improvements on the data infrastructure.

Evidence and Data Leads work in close collaboration with the Director of Evidence to scope opportunities for our evidence and work and capitalise on opportunities for collaboration with other organisations in this space.

We are a small and focused team with great ambitions. We are looking for people with an entrepreneurial spirit - a self-starter who gets excited by uncovering insights and sees how they can be used to unlock new opportunities.

We work with multiple partners on a variety of projects - so it is crucial that the Evidence and Data Leads are capable of prioritising effectively and devoting resources to the activities that are likely to generate the greatest impact.

WHY IS THIS ROLE IMPORTANT FOR THE CENTRE’S WORK?

At the Centre, we help people harness the power of evidence and data to improve policies and interventions to support people experiencing homelessness.

You will help shape the direction of our evidence work. This is a crucial stage of our journey as we expand our data and VFM work, and sustain momentum around our portfolio of evidence generation, particularly the delivery of the Test & Learn and Systems-Wide Evaluation programme.

Working under the oversight of the Director of Evidence, you will work across a portfolio of evaluations and data projects. You will oversee commissioned studies as well as undertake and quality-assure quantitative analysis in-house, working with administrative, survey and other datasets to generate insights relevant to homelessness policy and services. You will be responsible for ensuring methodological and statistical rigour, as well as policy relevance.

Most importantly, you will ensure those lessons are captured and fed into all the other streams of our work. Your skillset is critical to our work because you have the ability to both cultivate relationships with stakeholders and support the development of world‑class researchers.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN

Focus on Impact Evaluation:

• Manage the development and delivery of primary studies, particularly Randomised Controlled Trials and quasi-experimental evaluations, providing technical quality assurance across study design, sampling and power, outcome measurement, statistical analysis plans, implementation, analysis and reporting.
• Critically review quantitative analyses produced by evaluation partners, including statistical models, effect estimates, confidence intervals, subgroup analyses, missing data and attrition, and assess whether conclusions are supported by the evidence.
• Undertake quantitative analysis directly where required, including exploratory and descriptive analysis and, where appropriate, causal or quasi-experimental analysis.
• Support project sites as needed to support implementation, troubleshoot delivery issues, and maintain strong relationships with participating delivery partners.
• Play a key role in scoping new primary studies.
• Conduct independent applied research to inform organisational projects, policy engagement, and service design, including rapid evidence assessments,…