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Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Birmingham
Client:
Connected Places Catapult
Location:
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
44
Posted:
11.04.2025
Expiry Date:
26.05.2025
Job Description:
Location: Hybrid working from our Birmingham office (minimum of two days a week in the office. You can do more than two days if preferable)
Reporting to: Monitoring and Evaluation Team Lead
Salary: £57,995 to £61,785 Dependent on location and proven ability
Working hours: Full time 9 day fortnight
Contract type/duration: Fixed Term Contract (until the 30th April 2025)
Closing date: 5th July 2024
Connected Places Catapult: Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and places. Our mission is to connect people, places and businesses to a future of sustainable growth and prosperity. We provide impartial ‘Innovation as a Service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel.
Purpose of the Role: Connected Places Catapult is the lead partner in a collaborative research and development programme of activities in the West Midlands. The consortium of partners is formed from local businesses, the public sector, community groups and academics who are collaborating to build innovation capability and capacity to drive growth and prosperity in the West Midlands.
You will be responsible for leading the Monitoring and Evaluation of these activities to demonstrate the return on investment from the Programme to key stakeholders within the West Midlands, the primary funder and consortium partners. This is a unique opportunity to join a newly created team focusing on articulating the Impact of this exciting programme of work that is intended to be game changing within the West Midlands from an economic and social perspective.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead the implementation of an appropriate Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the Programme.
* Adopt and use the measurement templates (surveys etc) with our accelerator teams to capture the outputs and outcomes related to the businesses we support under the programmes of work.
* Implement a clear methodology for the collection of data to evidence, articulate and map the Outputs and Outcomes of the associated activities throughout the lifetime of the programme.
* Stitch together, where appropriate, the outputs and outcomes of the two main West Midlands programme of work, to show total Impact of our work In the West Midlands.
* Deliver impact assessment workshops and a toolkit for business that we support.
* Act as an ambassador for Monitoring and Evaluation.
* Develop and strengthen evidence-based lessons about what is working well (and less well) to inform improvements to data collection and processes.
* Turn analysis into compelling Impact case studies that can be used to demonstrate and disseminate the achievements of the Programme.
* Work with the Programme Manager to provide relevant inputs into programme governance and reporting.
* You may be required to undertake any other reasonable duties to support the Catapult in achieving its strategic outcomes and ensure effective business operations.
Requirements:
Skills and Experience:
* Relevant qualifications and experience in Monitoring and Evaluation.
* Demonstrable ability to support colleagues to understand and buy into the merits of monitoring and evaluation.
* Expertise in the implementation of metrics to support impact evaluation.
* Strong understanding of evaluation best practice as captured by HMT’s Magenta Book.
* Experience of leading one or more types of evaluation; social Impact assessment, economic Impact assessment or environmental impact assessment.
* Ability to write reports and communicate outcomes in an interesting and compelling way using a variety of formats.
* Strong analytical, problem solving, collaboration and technical skills.
* Self-motivation and ability to work without intense supervision.
* Demonstrating professionalism, resilience and self-awareness.
Employment here is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law.
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