The Widening Participation (WP) Team at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Evaluation Manager to provide expert input and support delivery against the University's Access and Participation Plan (APP).
The Access and Participation Evaluation Manager will oversee monitoring and evaluation strategies for centrally delivered WP programmes, providing advice and guidance to delivery teams, as well as supporting colleagues across the collegiate University to develop evaluation frameworks. They will work with teams across Education Services to embed evaluation into their interventions to ascertain impact and inform programme design and delivery.
The Access and Participation Evaluation Manager will have expertise in evaluation methodologies, ideally within the Higher Education sector, and will be confident to support and train a wide range of practitioners across the collegiate University to develop confidence in evaluation theory and practice. They will support the University's evaluation Community of Practice and represent the University in external conferences.
The role requires an individual with excellent communication skills, an ability to work with a diverse range of stakeholders, excellent IT skills, self-sufficient and highly organised.
Student Admissions and Access and the WP Team have agile working practices, which means there is flexibility in where and how colleagues work. This generally means a mix of remote and office working.
Benefits of working at Cambridge include:
- Competitive rates of pay with automatic service-related pay progression and annual cost of living increases
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Flexible and hybrid working opportunities
- Generous maternity, adoption and shared parental leave entitlement and other family friendly schemes (e.g. workplace nurseries)
- An auto-enrolment pension scheme, with a generous employer contribution
- Travel benefits and retail discounts at over 2,000 local and national stores
- Schemes to support with relocation / the provision of accommodation
Additional information regarding the role can be found within the further information file.
When applying, please upload your CV and cover letter which clearly sets out how you meet the criteria listed in the person specification (the knowledge, skills, and experience required for the role) along with relevant examples. Candidates will be shortlisted and invited to interview based upon these criteria.
Informal enquiries can be made to Deputy Head of Widening Participation (Impact and Training): holly.rowe@admin.cam.ac.uk
The closing date for applications is: 6th May 2024
The interview date for the role is: w/c 13th May 2024
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Please quote reference AT41088 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
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