Save the Children
Location
Farringdon, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a proactive and data driven individual with extensive research and project experience to join us as our Evaluation and Learning Lead where you will work within the UK Impact team leading on our monitoring and evaluation activities within our expanding Tower Hamlets Place- based work.
Please note: This is a 5 year Fixed Term Contract.
About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About our Tower Hamlets projects
The Tower Hamlets Parent Power project ran from 2019 to 2023 and formed part of the place-based work of Save the Children and local partners across the UK.
The programme aims to make a sustainable difference to the lives of children growing up in poverty in communities across the UK, by taking a whole-system and evidence-based approach to improving early learning outcomes. In taking a whole-system approach, our place-based work recognises that, while important, individual programmes alone will only ever be part of the solution to narrow the attainment gap between children in poverty and their more affluent peers. In order to make a sustainable difference to the outcomes of children growing up in poverty, we need to transform how whole early learning systems support those children – recognising that there are many different people, organisations and services that play a key role. By bringing together and supporting schools, statutory bodies, local charities, families, and children in communities, and looking at the root causes of issues affecting outcomes in these communities, the programme seeks to enable communities to make a sustainable difference to the lives of children growing up in poverty.
In early 2024 we were successful in securing funding for the next five years to continue to work with the Tower Hamlets community and build upon the work of our Parent Power project. Our Community Power project is a joint project with our Save the Children place-based team in Glasgow and we will be working closely with them over the life course of the project.
Community Power, takes us in to in a period of expansion and we are seeking an evaluation and learning lead to support our ambitious aims for driving forward change over the next five years.
Alongside the Community Power project, across 2024 in to early 2025, we will also be working on an exciting project which focusses on play and young children.
About the role
As Evaluation and Learning Lead you will be able to lead on our monitoring and evaluating processes for our work with Tower Hamlets to effectively monitor and measure the impact of the Tower Hamlets projects . This is a great opportunity for someone with a background in creating and executing community initiatives in collaboration with early years experts and families.
In this role, you will:
About you
To be successful, it is important that you have:
What we offer you:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.
Closing date: Friday 15th March
Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.
Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.
Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.
To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/
Salary Structure:
Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-offer/
Interview Expenses:
Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.
Pre-employmentChecks:
Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:
If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section here. For anything else you can email us on: [email protected]
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£35.1k - £39k per annum
