Principal Research Officer (Evaluation and Benefits)
| Posting date: | 15 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £56,640 to £65,490 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | £56,640 - £65,490 (National) £60,990 - £71,380 + £3,150 RRA (London) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 July 2025 |
| Location: | National |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Crown Prosecution Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 415817 |
Summary
As a Principal Research Officer you lead, oversee and manage the independent evaluation and benefits analysis for the Victims Transformation Programme. The Victim Transformation Programme is a long-term, high-profile programme within the CPS, which aims to improve how we communicate with victims of crime. You apply understanding of how to effectively evaluate a programme and establish a benefits management plan to identify evaluation needs and evidence gaps across the Victims Transformation Programme, whilst working with wider benefits standards in CPS and the VTP Benefits manager to establish a benefits management and realisation plan. You manage the external evaluation partner, ensuring the evaluation utilises robust methods, delivers value for money to the programme and informs the development of the programme including future requests for funding. You operate and think strategically to understand the aims of the programme and be able to identify the overarching evaluation needs within the programme, which will inform evidenced based recommendations with the ability to communicate them effectively to senior audiences with varied levels of evaluation and benefits knowledge including the Programme Board.
The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you’re applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. There’s no guarantee that we will grant this approval.
You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline.
As part of this role, you are expected to undertake direct line management responsibilities.
The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you’re applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. There’s no guarantee that we will grant this approval.
You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline.
As part of this role, you are expected to undertake direct line management responsibilities.