Senior Research & Evaluation Officer

Location: Remote (UK based) with occasional travel

Salary: £34,200 per year (plus Inner London Weighting of £3,483.94, if eligible)

Length of contract: Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Application: Please submit your CV and a one-page cover letter combined into a single document

Who are Women’s Aid?

Women’s Aid is the national charity working to end domestic abuse against women and children. We are a federation of just under 180 organisations which provide over 300 local lifesaving services to women and children across England. For 50 years we have campaigned on behalf of our members and survivors to shape policy and practice, and to raise awareness of domestic abuse.

Our support services, which include the Survivors’ Forum, the No Woman Turned Away Project, the Survivor’s Handbook, Love Respect (our dedicated website for young people), the national Women’s Aid Directory and our advocacy projects, help thousands of women and children every year.

Purpose of the Senior Research & Evaluation Officer role:

This role sits within Women Aid’s Membership, Research & Evaluation department, reporting to the Evaluation and Impact Manager and line managing one Research & Evaluation Officer. This role is responsible for understanding and demonstrating the impact of Women’s Aid’s work, ensuring ongoing learning evaluation of key projects, and providing specialist support to other projects within the department. This will include:

• Being responsible for the delivery of a programme of monitoring, evaluation and learning within Women Aid
• Evaluating Women’s Aid’s work across a range of areas (e.g. policy, campaigning and training)
• Providing specialist evaluation support to all teams to enable the organisation to understand and evidence their work.

Key duties and responsibilities of the Senior Research & Evaluation Officer:

• Design and implement evaluation frameworks on a variety of projects, such as our policy and campaigning work or the training we deliver.
• Using mixed-methods, to enable the organisation to understand and improve the impact and effectiveness of our work.
• Support with the commissioning and management of external evaluation of Women’s Aid activities.
• Lead the design and delivery of monitoring on a variety of projects, such as our policy and campaigning work, the training we deliver or our survivor services.
• Present and disseminate findings in an accessible and engaging way.
• Provide monitoring, evaluation and learning support to teams within Women’s Aid to enable self-evaluation and reflection, and to provide support around devising and implementing evaluation and learning frameworks.
• Use expertise and knowledge to help colleagues to identify appropriate methods to achieve research aims.
• Champion a culture of evidence-based decision-making and continuous learning and development.
• Lead on producing our annual organisation Impact Report.

What we are looking for in our Senior Research & Evaluation Officer:

• Knowledge and understanding of how organisations can collect, analyse and use impact and outcomes data and the range of methods and tools that can be used.
• Knowledge of research ethics, data protection and relevant safeguarding measures.
• Knowledge of different evaluation methodologies.
• Experience of designing project evaluations using a range of methodologies.
• Experience of commissioning and managing evaluation projects.
• Experience of collecting, managing and disseminating information in an accessible way for a variety of audiences and to facilitate learning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate with a range of audiences.
• Good IT skills, including for data analysis, preferably in a Windows based environment.
• University degree - preferably in the social sciences, or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits of joining us as our Senior Research & Evaluation Officer include:

• Generous Annual Leave: 25 days + 2 Company Holidays + 8 UK Bank Holidays, with an extra 1 day per year after 1 year of service, up to a maximum of 5 additional days.
• Valuable Pension Benefits: a generous 7% employer contribution.
• Flexible Working: remote working, a generous TOIL scheme, and family-friendly policies.

NB: Women only need apply under schedule 9 (Part 1) of the Equality Act 2010. All posts, including remote posts, must be based in the UK. Women’s Aid is committed to quality, equality, and valuing diversity. Applications are particularly welcome from Black and minoritised women. Please see the Reasonable Adjustments Statement on Job Description. Please read our Single Sex Statement on the Women’s Aid Website.