Evaluation Officer role
| Posting date: | 23 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £36,430 to £37,362 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | BS34 8SR |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Office For Students |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R0001220 |
Summary
Evaluation Officer role
Salary: £36,430 - £37,362
Location: Bristol
Plus generous Civil Service defined benefit pension
About the role
As an Evaluation Officer, you will work with an Evaluation Manager to scope, run and commission evaluations, providing expert advice on priority evidence projects, and working to champion a strong culture of evaluative thinking in the OfS. Our evaluations are typically impact and/or process evaluations, with a strong focus on theories of change and theory-based approaches, and use of mixed-methods. You may do a mix of managing commissioned suppliers and conducting our own data collection and analysis.
Your role will include building relationships and engaging stakeholders and ensuring evaluation findings are translated into impact. You will facilitate discussions and learning / reflection exercises, deliver internal training, look for ways to share our work to maximise its impact, and look at how to build evaluation into the OfS’s ways of working. You’ll be constantly developing your own knowledge of relevant research and evaluation and sharing this to build the knowledge of the team and wider colleagues. You’ll support the management of evaluation projects and workstreams, ensuring we deliver high quality and on time.
Salary: £36,430 - £37,362
Location: Bristol
Plus generous Civil Service defined benefit pension
About the role
As an Evaluation Officer, you will work with an Evaluation Manager to scope, run and commission evaluations, providing expert advice on priority evidence projects, and working to champion a strong culture of evaluative thinking in the OfS. Our evaluations are typically impact and/or process evaluations, with a strong focus on theories of change and theory-based approaches, and use of mixed-methods. You may do a mix of managing commissioned suppliers and conducting our own data collection and analysis.
Your role will include building relationships and engaging stakeholders and ensuring evaluation findings are translated into impact. You will facilitate discussions and learning / reflection exercises, deliver internal training, look for ways to share our work to maximise its impact, and look at how to build evaluation into the OfS’s ways of working. You’ll be constantly developing your own knowledge of relevant research and evaluation and sharing this to build the knowledge of the team and wider colleagues. You’ll support the management of evaluation projects and workstreams, ensuring we deliver high quality and on time.
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