Senior Education Evaluation and Impact Manager

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

The Role

A chance to lead education evaluation and make an impact across our education offer.

You will lead a function in Registry and Education Services integrating the delivery of education evaluation and regulatory compliance across the University’s Education for Life 2030+ Strategy, Access and Participation Plan (APP), and engagement with the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

This role will give you a chance to influence the equity of our outcomes and excellence in the student experience working with academic and professional service colleagues across the University to develop our evidence and evaluation framework. You will manage and co-ordinate the development and submissions process for our APP and TEF, as well as the monitoring the delivery of the APP.

Through both delivering evaluation and supporting delivery teams to undertake their own evaluation through engaging with theories of change, qualitative and quantitative evaluation and analysis methodologies you will provide insight into how effective our key interventions and strategic initiatives are in driving the results we want to see.

This post is based in Registry and Education Services, part of Student Services.

You will lead on a new function for the Directorate to deliver the integration of evaluation and impact activities across our education provision supporting regulatory compliance across access and participation, the Teaching Excellence Framework and Office for Students B conditions; working with academic and professional service colleagues to develop our evaluation and evidence framework and deliver evaluation activities and data insight; and to monitor the implementation of key education interventions across the student lifecycle from point of entry supporting the delivery of our Education Strategy. You will also contribute to shared responsibilities across the team and ad hoc projects.

You will work closely in collaboration with team members across Registry and Education Services, colleagues across the institution including senior management, those in central services, faculties, academic units, across branch campuses and with the Students’ Union (NUSU).

For informal enquiries please contact Rachel Dearlove, Director of Registry and Education Services (rachel.dearlove@ncl.ac.uk).

To apply, please upload your CV and cover letter evidencing how your skills and experiences align to the person specification as outlined in person specification of the job description (available on the university's website, accessed by the 'Apply' button).

Expected start date: 1st September 2026.

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