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About us:
Spark2Life is a community inspired charity. We have been running programmes since 2006 and we operate in London, Kent and Buckinghamshire.
Our mission:
To prevent harm and promote life. We strive to reduce violence affecting young people, racial disproportionality within the Criminal Justice System and school exclusions. We exist to help young people thrive by equipping them the tools to successfully navigate life and increase resilience.
At Spark2life we are looking for an Monitoring and Evaluation Manager to come and join our ever-growing organisation.
The Role:
As a Monitoring & Evaluation Manager you will have an important role, providing technical expertise to ensure the right data is collected from our programmes to help us evaluate impact in the longer-term. We are dedicated to ensuring we deliver impactful projects and programmes and are committed to identifying improvements to further our potential impact.
The role will be responsible for developing and implementing frameworks, indicators, data tools, and methodologies to measure and evaluate the impact of our initiatives. This role will provide guidance on best practices in monitoring and evaluation.
Responsibilities:
As a Monitoring & Evaluation Manager you will:
Work with programme and business development teams and our Youth Forum to support the development of programme/project specific monitoring and evaluation plans, theories of change and results frameworks.
Lead on design and implementation of evaluations that assess organisational and specific programme/project level relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, social and economic impact.
Develop terms of reference for various evaluations, in consultation with internal teams, with clear purpose, objectives and evaluation questions, approach, methodology, resource requirements and work plan.
Design evaluation approaches and methodologies, data collection instruments and analysis frameworks.
Undertake and oversee design, collection and cleaning of data ready for analysis.
Undertake analysis and reporting of the collected data to respond to the evaluation questions and criteria.
Lead on writing evaluation reports, ensuring they are of high quality and suitable for target audiences.
Present findings to internal and external audiences as required.
Support internal teams to meaningfully report outcome and impact data.
Facilitate learning by supporting internal managers and teams to reflect on and learn from evaluation findings.
Qualifications:
The successful candidate will have a bachelors degree in social sciences, Statistics, Project Management, or a related field or a minimum of 4 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably within the non-profit or development sector.
Strong expertise in developing M&E frameworks, indicators, and data collection methodologies is crucial, as is proficiency in data analysis tools and software (e.g., SPSS, R, Excel).
Experience:
Experience working with and creating dashboards and infographics
Experience of monitoring and evaluating interventions with a focus on undertaking process evaluations, measuring outcomes and impact using a variety of methodologies and techniques.
Excellent IT Skills, including MS suite, particularly Excel
Previous experience working with databases and data inputting
Knowledge of importing and exporting data
A working understanding of GDPR
Data visualisation, analysis and reporting, including presenting data in a variety of formats
Excellent administrative skills, particularly in organisation, planning and prioritisation
Ability to manage a diverse workload and multiple priorities
Experience of supporting and facilitating others to develop logical frameworks and monitoring and evaluation plans to ensure the right monitoring data is collected.
Ability to lead on design, delivery and implementation of monitoring and evaluation for project and programmes.
Familiarity with handling data protection protocols, ensuring data security and ethical considerations.
Exceptional written and oral skills, including the ability to present complex information in simplified form for non-technical audiences.
Stay and Grow:
25 DAYS annual Leave plus 8 Bank holidays per Year
Annual performance review with develop plans
Discount for services and products via Bright HR System
Free access to counselling
Access to Employee Assistance Programme
Team Building sessions throughout the year
If you are interested in working at Spark2Life as a Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, please do not hesitate to click APPLY.
Spark2Life is committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone regardless of their background.
