This is a great opportunity for politics, sociology and criminology students as the British Red Cross are looking for students with studies within the social research discipline
Working within the insight and improvement team, you will support the Transforming UK Operations Programme utilising both research and evaluation. Tasks will involve designing and undertaking research and evaluations of projects and services sharing learning from across programme teams to ensure recommendations are actioned.
Responsibilities
- Designing and delivering evaluation projects to support the Transforming UK Operations programme
- Deliver research projects to deepen our understanding of people using or delivering our services. .
- Communicate findings from research and evaluation to stakeholders at all levels in clear, accessible and persuasive ways.
- Work closely with service design and product teams to incorporate user research and evaluation findings into their work.
- To rapidly investigate service delivery issues as they arise to support real-time troubleshooting and improvement.
- Support the development of financial assessments of our delivery.
- Work with the Co-production team to ensure the principles of co-production and facilitate the safe involvement of people in our activities.
- Work closely with members of the evaluation team to align to existing best practice.
- Build positive relationships with our operational teams and act as an advocate for high quality data and evaluation.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experienced in applying analysis to a range of situations.
- Building strong and effective alliances and relationships.
- Communication, presentation and influencing skills.
- 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 adynamic environment, with often changing and competing priorities.
- A thorough understanding/experience of using data, research and insight from to add value
- Experience of commissioning and managing external evaluators
The closing date for completed applications is 23:59hrs on Thursday the 15th of February 2024
For more details check out the link below:
Evaluation Officer in Flexible Location - UK - British Red Cross