Evaluation Officer

Evaluation Officer
Location: UK Flexible Location
Salary: £36,958 to £37,080 per annum
Hours: 35 per week full-time
Contract: Permanent

Could you design and implement evaluations across our UK Operations services to support service improvement and understand our impact?

Would you enjoy talking to people, analysing data, and providing advice and guidance to colleagues to help improve the quality of our work and evidence base?

Could you play a supporting role in delivering the British Red Cross’s strategic approach towards service improvement and design through data driven insight and recommendations?

Interested?

What will an Evaluation Officer's job involve?

• Supporting the team in implementing a robust framework for the evaluation of our UK Operations.
• Work collaboratively across the British Red Cross with other colleagues involved in undertaking research and evaluation.
• Undertake the design and delivery of evaluations on our UK Operations services as requested.
• Rapidly investigate service delivery issues and challenges as they arise to support real-time troubleshooting and service improvement.
• Support the development of best practice learning and evaluation resources for use across our UK Operations.
• Build positive relationships with our operational teams and act as an advocate for high quality data and evaluation.

To be a successful Evaluation Officer, you’ll need:

• Educated to degree level in a social research discipline or have equivalent practical experience of social research disciplines
• Proven analytical ability – both quantitative and qualitative
• Knowledge of the government, statutory and voluntary sectors in which the British Red Cross works in the UK
• Experience of using quantitative and qualitative collection and analysis software packages e.g. SmartSurvey, SPSS, NVivo
• A qualification or equivalent experience in Social Return on Investment or economic evaluation techniques
• Familiarity with research methods and their application in a range of social and economic policy contexts
• Proven ability to work to very tight deadlines in a dynamic environment, with often changing and competing priorities
• Evidenced experience of using data, research and insight from data and research to add value
• Commissioning and managing external evaluators

The closing date for applications is 23.59 hrs on Monday the 14th of July 2025. Interviews are expected to take place in the week commencing 4th August 2025 or shortly after this week.