Evaluator

Disability Arts Online (DAO) is looking for an Evaluator to support its landmark heritage project ‘Cripping Culture: a Journey into Disability Arts Heritage’.

This is a freelance commission for an experienced evaluator to provide an external perspective to help DAO understand the value and impact of the Cripping Culture project. This will involve engagement with the project team, steering group, key stakeholders and the community to draw insights from the project processes and outputs.

There is a maximum budget of £4,000, inclusive of VAT, to deliver all aspects of the project set out in the brief.

Cripping Culture: A Journey into Disability Arts Heritage is delivered by DAO with key industry partners and funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Its aim is to share the story of the Disability Arts movement and preserve our shared heritage for future generations.

As an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded organisation, DAO has well established evaluation practices for assessing the impact of our core work and learning how to improve what we do. We want to build on these through working with an external evaluator to cast an impartial, constructive and critical eye over this project as we embark on our first major heritage project.

Remuneration and Location

• Remuneration: £4,000 (total budget)
• Work location: Remote
• Region: UK

Deliverables

• In liaison with the project team (including comms team), design and conduct surveys using the Impact and Insight toolkit at appropriate points in the project.
• Gather insights from the project team, steering group, and key stakeholders at the beginning and periodically throughout.
• Produce evaluation reports at the end of each of the three project phases.
• Contribute to project team learning sessions by presenting findings and facilitating discussions that lead to improvements throughout the project.

Evaluation Requirements

• The evaluation should be conducted ethically, respecting participants’ privacy and confidentiality and adhering to relevant ethical guidelines.
• The evaluation format needs to be accessible to the people participating.
• The evaluation must be undertaken in consultation with the project steering group volunteers and in close collaboration with the project team.

Application deadline: 12 noon on Monday 2 March 2026

Please visit the DAO website for more information about the role and details of how to apply https://disabilityarts.online/opportunity-listings/evaluator

Location: All Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland

TAGGED: Audience Development / Dance / Design / Equalities / Film / Festivals / Music / TV / Theatre / Traditional Arts / Visual Arts / Literature and Publishing / Participatory Practice