About the Nuffield Foundation

The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance social well-being, to improve lives for individuals, families and communities within a just and inclusive society. 

As part of our core grants programmes we fund research that informs social policy, primarily in Education, Welfare and Justice.  We are co-founder and co-funder of Nuffield Council on Bioethics  and – in line with an ambitious strategy and expanded strategic funding envelope – we have established and co-funded both the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and the Ada Lovelace Institute in recent years. These institutes form part of an expanded ‘Nuffield Family’ with a shared high-level mission and recently agreed an overall ‘Success Framework’ for all aspects of our work, although they have significant autonomy in their day-to-day work. 

The role

To build on our recently agreed success framework, we are now looking for an experienced evaluation and impact manager to work across the ‘Nuffield family’ to develop, implement and co-ordinate our monitoring, evaluation, learning and impact work. 

In this initially fixed-term new role you will liaise with both decision makers and operational teams to help us build and operationalise a practical and proportionate monitoring, evaluation and learning process, identifying  appropriate quantitative indicators and qualitative methods to assess and understand our impact and communicate our learnings.  

Working to a cross-Foundation Impact Steering Group, the key objectives for this role are to help develop our evaluation and impact framework, and embed it across the organisation to enable us to assess the extent and ways in which we have delivered against our long and short-term strategic priorities, and understand where we can learn and improve. 

For further information about the role, please click here to download the full job description. An overview of the Foundation's Success Framework can be found here.

About you

As this is a new and largely standalone role you will be skilled in advising multiple stakeholders in impact assessment, and monitoring, evaluation and learning design and methodology (both quantitative and qualitative).  

You will need well-established project management skills and focused, critical thinking.  This will be coupled with strong teamworking, communication and data-management skills, to work hands on with teams across the organisation to communicate, populate and implement the framework. 

You are likely to be familiar with theory of change models and have used Sharepoint to support effective collection, understanding and reporting of data. 

How to apply

The closing date for applications is 11:59am BST on Tuesday 20th July 2021, with interviews taking place via video on the 2nd and 3rd August 2021. 

Please note that as part of the online application process you are required to respond to some questions relevant to this role, as well as needing to upload a copy of your CV.