Evidence & Impact Lead
| Posting date: | 09 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,403 to £66,400 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55,403 - £61,939 National £61,005 - £66,400 London |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2025 |
| Location: | SW1A 2HQ |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 404244/4 |
Summary
Within the Government People Group of Cabinet Office, Government Skills was set up in 2020 to drive up capability across Government in an evidence-based and impact-led way. Government Skills ensures all civil servants, from entry to most senior leadership, have the core and specialist knowledge, skills and networks they need to deliver great public services and address complex systemic challenges, now and in the future. This work is central to the Cabinet’s commitment to building a Productive and Agile State, and supports Mission Delivery by ensuring the workforce has the capability and learning culture to deliver against the Government’s missions.
The Evidence and Impact team within Government Skills is responsible for ensuring that hundreds of millions of pounds of annual spend on developing the skills, knowledge and relationships of the Government workforce is evidence-based and impact-led. We use a combination of analytical methods covering monitoring/data analytics, social research, evaluation, statistics, behavioural and user research, and economic analysis to provide robust, purposeful insights to inform business decisions. Our evidence supports the creation of effective policy and strategy on the future skills needs of the government and wider public sector workforce, and supports effective design, commissioning and delivery of the interventions required to achieve this. The team has a reputation as a centre of expertise supporting the whole of government on these issues, and is expanding as part of plans for the next spending review periods 2025-26 and 2026-29.
As Evidence and Impact Lead you will lead and manage a diverse portfolio of research and evaluation projects which contribute programmatically to the evidence base on ‘what works’, for who, in what conditions, and why, when building the capability and skills of the civil service and public sector workforce. As part of a diverse, and expanding, analytical team you will work in partnership with other analysts, and with policy and delivery colleagues, to build capacity across the system to develop and mobilise high quality evidence to develop the government and public sector workforce we need to deliver the Government’s Missions and other key priorities.
You will report to the Head of Evidence and Impact and will:
- Lead work to strengthen monitoring, evaluation and impact of skills, learning and development interventions across the Civil Service and with public sector leaders, working across the full cycle of intervention design and delivery. This role will initially particularly focus on the Civil Service Fast Stream and Emerging Talent (apprenticeships; outreach; internships) interventions, with a particular focus on strengthening data/monitoring and impact evaluation.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders, including the Deputy Director for FSET, to identify, prioritise and thematically connect longer term and immediate evidence needs and identify and implement robust approaches to address them, using and developing your own knowledge of the evidence base and drawing on appropriate external evidence and expertise.
- Manage internal and external delivery of analysis, ensuring commissioning, delivery and reporting are robust, purposeful, efficient and aligned with the Government Campus Evaluation Strategy and other relevant policies, including the Magenta Book. This is likely to include line management as the team grows.
- Lead the production of high quality written briefings, business cases and other written outputs, and provide clear and purposeful verbal briefings, to senior leaders, Ministers and policy and delivery colleagues.
- As a member of the Evidence and Impact leadership team, take on a corporate contribution for enabling great evidence and impact work right across the Directorate and with our partners across the Civil Service and public sector. This will include contributing to organisational development, growth and maturity as the team expands over the next four years.
Our team is currently growing and changing as part of wider exciting changes in the way we develop Civil Service and wider public sector capability within the Government’s commitment to a productive and agile state. This will create growth and development opportunities within the team, and means that you can expect some flexibility around your role description and portfolio of analysis as the team evolves.
You can find more information about Government Skills on our GOV.UK page: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-skills-and-curriculum-unit including about our team: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/evidence-based-learning-and-development and our current Evaluation Strategy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-campus-evaluation-strategy.
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