Senior Evaluation Manager

Senior Evaluation Manager

Band: UKRI Band E
Salary: £46,743 per annum
Hours:
Full-time/ Part Time (minimum 0.8 FTE) (flexible working available)
Reports to:
Innovation Lead – Clean Energy Superpower Mission
Location:
Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire - Hybrid working available
Contract:
Fixed Term 23 months.

The R&D Missions Accelerator Programme (R&D MAPP) represents an exceptional opportunity to create real world impact through R&D investment.
The programme will utilise a £500m budget to bring together the private sector, the third sectors and academia to collaboratively develop innovative solutions to public sector problems, resulting innew technologies, services, IP and more.
The programme has been designed to solve the key problems facing the Government’s five national Missions and enable delivery of the milestones in the Plan for Change.

The Government has identified the key problems faced by the UK, to which the R&D Missions Accelerator Programme has designed Research and Innovation (RI) Challenges to develop solutions.

The programme is currently developing its approaches across the Missions, and therefore by joining at this stage there’s a significant opportunity toestablishand drive the strategic and operational direction of the programme.

The Clean Energy Superpower Mission is the UK’s world-leading response to climate change with its twin focus on Clean Power by 2030 and accelerating to Net Zero. We'retackling two interconnected challenges that will shape the nation's energy independence, push peaking gas plant off thesystem,and drive down energy bills.

We are looking at how new business models and approaches can unlock grid flexibility through AI and digital innovation, and developing new low-cost ultra-long duration energy storage solutions. Working with experts in system change such as the Energy Systems and Digital Catapults, market shapers at NESO and Elexonand leading industry players, we are investing in real-world solutions and growing UK-based innovators and skills, right at the forefront of building the flexible, resilient power grid that will deliver our clean energy superpower ambitions.
We are looking for people who are highly self-motivated and who engage widely to findnew solution sand ways of creating impact and bring real benefits to peoples’ lives and the economy.

This will be a varied and interesting role to lead the delivery of a portfolio of monitoring, evaluation and related strategic activity. The role will lead/support the design and delivery of strategic evaluations of new activities, encouraging best practice and building evaluation capability. The role will provide support and guidance to developing logic models, execute evaluation plans, and taking part in steering and advisory groups.

This role will involve developing evidence syntheses and processes to disseminate and embed evidence of impact. Additionally, the role will require strong stakeholder management across challenge teams and UKRI.

The role incorporates a joint focus on programme-level and mission-level M&E support. In addition to working across the Clean Energy Superpower Mission the postholder will be involved in the Evaluation Working Groups for the overarching R&D MAP evaluation. This provides an exciting opportunity to shape a mission portfolio while benefiting from, and sharing, experience and good practice across the missions.
The postholder will be a central member of the Clean Energy Superpower Mission team, reporting to a Grade F manager, with a secondary reporting line to the Head of M&E in the R&D MAP hub.

This position is based at our Swindon office, but hybrid working is available in accordance with UKRI policy. The team has a standing agreement to meet once a month at the Swindon office, and once a month at the London office, separately by two weeks. This post also may require travel to attend external visits and meetings. We welcome applications from candidates with special requirements.

• Designing and delivering evaluation activity on behalf of the mission…