Deputy Director, Head of the Evaluation Taskforce
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £81,000 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Non civil servants will be expected to start at the salary minimum if successful. Standard pay rules apply for existing civil servants. |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | York |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 423586/4 |
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Post this most recent spending review, the ETF is entering a new four year strategy phase 2025-29, which is an exciting time to join the team. This coupled with the wider team’s recent announcements on both the public sector reform agenda and productive and agile state, it is a unique opportunity to amplify the criticality of high quality evidence and capacity to do high quality evaluation to wider reform agendas in a way that makes state more efficient and support better outcomes and programmes for people. ETF’s activities are organised around three core areas:
1. create incentives for departments to evaluate their programmes and policies,
2. strengthen evaluation capabilities, and
3. increase resources to deliver high-quality evaluations.
To find out more about the role, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack.
The successful candidate for this role will lead a high-performing team of twenty delivering on the three core areas above. The person will have significant line management and leadership responsibility, including supporting a culture where feedback and empowerment of all staff is prioritised, and creating flexible and integrated ways of working with key public service departments, HMT senior officials and ministers, local authorities and input from the frontline and academics.
The role involves leading a team that ensures policy development and decision-making are informed by robust analytical advice on programmes with significant public spend, such as the £5.6bn Asylum resettlement programme, the £2.9bn pupil premium, or the £2.6bn prosperity fund. This role will require the holder to rapidly develop credibility, gravitas, and act as an ambassador for evaluation. The successful candidate will need highly developed communication skills to build a consensus for change, gain trust from sceptical stakeholders, and make evidence compelling and accessible. They should be inspiring, as a significant portion of the role involves engaging with others, understanding barriers, communicating the case for change, and unblocking those barriers.
This close working includes the role holder sitting on Spending Deputy Directors meetings, Directors of Analysis meetings, and Cross-government evaluation group meetings. The role holder should also be influencing at the highest levels with senior officials and ministers.
The role will focus on using ETF's remit to support building high quality evaluations on key government priorities : particularly in the context of public sector reform and devolution to local authorities of significant funding and accountability, so the expectation is an element of the team’s capability and capacity building will be at a central, regional and local level. The successful candidate will get the opportunity to build out a coalition of senior advocates across government, particularly in the context of delivering on the ETF’s new four year strategy. A core component of the role will be to capitalise on excellent learning from this spending review to amplify use and embedding of evaluation at next the Spending Review.
The main activities of the unit are:
- Building on successes of last spending review, close joint team working with HMT, rapid scrutiny of evaluation plans attached to business cases submitted to HM Treasury spending teams. Or, if no plans exist, advise spending teams on what evaluation (if any) is feasible and proportionate.
- Partnership working with public sector reform teams including the newly announced community help partnership programme to support adults from reaching crisis points earlier, and test, learn and grow programme designed to test and learn from a variety of places and public service challenges all over the country, to support both to have excellent evaluation plans and live learning from their policy challenges.
- Close working with mission teams and productive and agile state to support understanding what drives productivity and effectiveness, enabling more informed decisions to make the state more efficient, and reduce duplication. The team is currently supporting the building of evaluation plans for the AI exemplars portfolio, a top PM priority.
- Advising and supporting departments on the design and delivery of robust, proportionate evaluation. This includes opportunities to embed experimentation into their design (e.g. testing multiple variations of a programme at the same time to understand which version is most cost effective). In line with significant devolution spending.
- Acting as ambassadors and champions of evaluation practices across government and how they connect to the government’s wider policy goals, including raising the profile of departments performing excellent evaluations, and supporting those that are still improving and evolving their approaches.
- Being the what works centre’s secretariat and regularly highlighting and amplifying their evidence and key role in high quality evidence and evaluation across government.
- Running the evaluation accelerator fund, which is a competitive grant fund and supports research and evaluation projects that: create actionable evidence in HM Government priority areas that informs public spending or policy decisions; tackle evidence gaps in HM Government priority areas; or provide robust evidence of financial or efficiency savings from new policies, interventions, or innovative approaches to service delivery.
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