Learning & Evaluation Lead

The Wood Foundation is recruiting for the role of a Learning and Evaluation Lead who will have responsibility for coordinating all learning and evaluation activities across the Developing Young People in Scotland (DYPS) portfolio.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that associated data and learning is shared to support the organisational commitment to learning and continuous improvement.
• Supporting the creation of conditions for a reflective and learning organisational culture.
• Collaborating closely with colleagues across organisation to support organisational commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• Providing support and guidance to programme teams on an individual programme level learning and evaluation frameworks.
• Creating the necessary frameworks to capture and effectively measure the learning for each programme/area of investment.
• Coordinating the procurement and supporting associated delivery of contracts for any external evaluation/research.
• Supporting Programme Teams to embed any externally produced learning and evaluation frameworks into operational activities.
• Preparing reports for internal and external audiences based upon data from learning and evaluation processes.
• Identifying emergent challenges, trends and learning from investment activity.
• Ensuring evidence is available to support consultation and policy responses.
• Analysing and using outcome data to facilitate decision making, learning, and contributing to establishing good practice both internally and externally.
• Identifying opportunities to disseminate learning, working closely with the Communications Manager.
• Contributing towards the creation of communications outputs such as social media platforms.
• Participating in external learning opportunities as appropriate to both share and gain knowledge.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• A degree level qualification, in a relevant Social Research discipline or related work area.
• A strong understanding of UK GDPR legislation and best practice.
• Strong numeracy, including an understanding of basic statistical analysis techniques.
• Demonstrable experience of evaluating system change level activity.
• Ability to think creatively, innovate and initiate.
• Experience (or interest) in data visualisation and design.
• Competence working with Microsoft Office 365 applications, particularly Sharepoint.

The full job description can be viewed here.