Evaluation Officer (Outreach and Engagement)

Location: South Kensington and White City Campuses

Job Summary

Are you an experienced evaluator, looking for a new opportunity to work across a wide range of creative and interactive programmes? Can your reflective, analytical and research skills help us to better understand the impact of our engagement and outreach work? If so, you could join Imperial’s Outreach, Public and Community Engagement teams as our new Evaluation Officer.

Our Outreach and Engagement work is central to Imperial’s mission of achieving excellence in education and research in science, engineering, medicine and business for the benefit of society. The role will begin with a focus in White City, where we engage with diverse audiences from local families, students, youth clubs, older adults and community groups, living and working in the area surrounding our West London campus. The Invention Rooms is a hub for these activities, hosting Saturday Science Clubs for families, schools workshops in the Makerspace, and events for the Agents of Change women’s leadership network.

The Evaluation Officer will work across Schools Outreach, Public and Community Engagement teams, to embed evaluation within our programmes. It is central to helping understand, increase and make visible the outcomes of our work – whether around widening participation in science and university, increasing science capital, enhancing our research and innovation, or establishing community connections and partnerships. This is a fulfilling and valuable role, supporting the development of a culture of evaluation within our engagement teams and colleagues across the college, contributing to strategic reporting and ultimately improving outcomes for all involved in our public activities.

Duties and responsibilities

Join our active teams and work across our varied engagement and outreach programmes to:

• Develop and deliver robust and insightful evaluations to understand the impact of our programmes
• Analyse findings and share learnings to inform programme development and make improvements
• Create accessible and informative reports, summaries and presentations based on data and feedback
• Collaborate with colleagues across engagement teams to monitor, critically evaluate and reflect on programmes and processes

Essential requirements

We are looking for a reflective, collaborative and experienced evaluator who:

• Can bring a wealth of evaluation experience, including creating accessible and targeted tools for a range of audiences.
• Is confident in working with qualitative and quantitative data, synthesising findings from multiple sources.  
• Has a strong eye for detail, working with precision in an organised and logical way with large data sets and across multiple programmes.
• Is an excellent communicator – from gathering feedback with programme participants to creating concise and insightful reports for senior stakeholders. 

Further Information

This is a full-time and open ended role.

Interview dates: 4 and 9 May 2023

We usually appoint at the start of the salary scale.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Amy Seakins (a.seakins@imperial.ac.uk)

We only accept online applications through Imperial’s online system.

The College is currently trialling a Work Location Framework until early 2023.  Hybrid working may be considered for this role and the role holder may be expected to work 60% or more of their time onsite, with 40% the minimum time spent onsite.  The opportunity for hybrid working will be discussed at interview.

Closing date: 16 April 2023

To apply, visit www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs and search by the job reference PRO00913.

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