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Join STEM Learning as an Evaluation Officer and Make a Difference in Education
Are you passionate about STEM education and looking for an opportunity to make a real impact? STEM Learning, a world-leading organisation in STEM education support, is seeking an Evaluation Officer to join our team in York. With a competitive salary ranging from £32,000 to £38,000, we offer an exciting opportunity to contribute to our mission of achieving a world-leading education for all young people in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computing.
The Role
As an Evaluation Officer, you will play a crucial role in our Impact and Evidence Team, ensuring the continued success of STEM Learning. You will lead evaluations of large-scale education support programmes, distilling your findings into key messages shared across the education sector. Your work will help colleagues and educators learn what works, demonstrate the impact of our programmes to our funders, and ensure the highest quality of our support.
Your Responsibilities
- Develop and implement end-to-end project evaluations
- Implement and develop best practice across research and evaluation
- Collect, collate, analyse and report research findings and evaluation data
- Communicate and disseminate research findings to internal and external audiences
Our Ideal Candidate
Candidates will demonstrate our values: Sustainable – Innovative – Proactive
We are looking for someone with a background in social research or project evaluation, with proven skills in a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods and research designs. You should have experience managing and manipulating large datasets, with good knowledge of mixed methods approaches to research and data analysis. Excellent planning, organisational, and communication skills are essential.
Read the full Role Profile to find out more!
About Us
The National STEM Learning Centre & Network is a key UK resource for supporting STEM teaching and learning through provision of resources, on-line and physical networking and communities and partnership with a wide range of organisations and individuals. This includes driving forward on-going development of the STEM Ambassadors and STEM Clubs programmes alongside subject-specific support for all involved in teaching STEM subjects to young people.
Take a look inside the National STEM Learning Centre in York to see our facilities.
Our Benefits
- 30 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Access to an excellent pension scheme
- A comprehensive employee assistance programme
- Access to a voluntary staff benefits scheme including cycle to work loan scheme; health cash back plans; free eye tests; discounted vouchers and much more
Take a look at our benefits brochure to find out more about the benefits we offer.
Next Steps
Closing date for applications: 09:00, Monday 8 April 2024
For an informal discussion about the role, please get in touch with Will Vince, Evaluation Lead (w.vince @stem.org.uk).
To Apply
Please provide us with:
- Your up-to-date CV including the contact details of two referees (please note, references will not be approached without your permission)
- A covering letter (no more than the equivalent of 2 sides of A4) explaining your interest in the role and why you think you would be the ideal candidate.
