Evaluation and Data Officer

You will join the Data and Evaluation team, which plays a crucial role in their reporting and monitoring responsibilities for their widening participation activities and programmes.  You will provide specialist advice and support for HeppSY, playing an integral part in enabling HeppSY to meet their requirements to the Office for Students

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Access and Outreach Coordinator

You will coordinate the delivery of the Institute’s access and outreach offer to young people, schools, community groups, and key stakeholders such as teachers and parents, carers, and supporters.  There will be opportunities to develop the existing offer and explore opportunities for sustained projects that support the attainment of young people.  Evaluation and monitoring are also key areas for this work and role; and you will work alongside the Head of Access and Participation to ensure the Institute are effectively measuring the impact of the work they do.

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Evaluation Manager

Reporting to the Head of Evaluation, you will help the OfS work more effectively through leading evaluation activity and evaluative thinking across the organisation.  You will scope, run and commission evaluations that improve impact, provide expert advice on priority evidence development, and work to champion a strong culture of evaluative thinking across the organisation, and for evaluation to be used and celebrated across the OfS. Responsibilities in the role will include: designing evaluations to meet stakeholder requirements; commissioning external evaluation and managing contractors effectively leading evaluation projects independently; providing expert support, advice and quality assurance to evaluations led by other teams; engaging stakeholders and ensuring evaluation findings are translated into impact; supporting teams across the OfS to learn from and improve their regulatory interventions through their evaluations, and driving organisational culture change to celebrate evaluation and embed a learning mindset managing junior team colleagues and project management.

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Head of Access and Participation

You will work with the senior team on the implementation of UEA’s Access and Participation Plan (APP) and all related policies, action plans and regulatory and statutory reporting - assessing available evidence and ensure that UEA has an ever-evolving and robust strategy to address risks to equality of opportunity and outcomes for students from underrepresented and disadvantaged groups.  This will include project managing whole UEA strategic and operational approaches to meet UEA’s stretching APP targets and the expectations of the regulator, the Office for Students; allocation of UEA’s significant APP budget; and development of appropriate governance and organisational structures.  You will work cross institutionally with a network of embedded operational staff and senior management roles, to develop, project manage and monitor a series of strategic interventions to meet the University’s goals.  You will also manage UEA’s Widening Participation Evidence and Evaluation Team and be responsible for the design and development of all relevant monitoring, evaluation and reporting to internal governance structures, the sector, and the Office for Students.

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