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The Government vision for advanced manufacturing is that “by 2035 the UK will be the best place in the world to start, grow, and invest in Advanced Manufacturing.” Ambition to nearly double annual business investment in the sector from £21 billion to £39 billion by 2035. Drive economic growth, increase private investment, and improve resilience in advanced manufacturing frontier industries. Support and commercialise research and scale up innovation, automation, and digitalisation.
Lead specialist - appraisal and evaluation
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
56 days ago
Salary
£58.6K / year
Seniority
Lead
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Lead specialist - appraisal and evaluation
Innovate UK
Role Description The purpose of this role is to manage the evaluation function across our portfolio of programmes. - Coordinate and maintain high quality evaluative evidence across IUK. - Write strategic and proportionate evaluation plans for IUK's growth areas. - Ensure the successful delivery of process, interim impact, as well as final and economic impact evaluations. - Help to build M&E plans and structure ITT's for external contractors. - Support procurement of these contractors. - Provide evaluation thought-leadership in IUK. - Develop and deliver training on evaluation to the wider organisation. - Lead the wider development of Innovate UK’s capability to create, understand, and use evaluation evidence. - Build close professional links and working relationships with programme teams across Innovate UK and analysts from UKRI, DSIT, and other government departments. Qualifications - Degree-level (or higher) qualification in a relevant course with at least 50% in Mathematics, Economics, Statistics and data analysis, or Social Research. - Considerable experience applying relevant skills in a work environment. - Knowledge of a range of quantitative or qualitative analysis methods. - Broad experience in applying these methods and interpreting results. - Strong written and oral communications skills, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. - Experience in writing reports, working papers, or research publications. - Experience in the evaluation of investments within the public sector, using Magenta Book principles and awareness of Green Book principles. Requirements - Lead the design of Innovate UK’s evaluation strategy. - Manage a programme of process and impact evaluations for Innovate UK activities. - Knowledge of a broad range of evaluation methodologies. - Assess proposals from independent researchers to select high-quality evaluations. - Provide day-to-day management of evaluation projects conducted by contracted researchers. - Develop a coherent communication strategy to enhance the use of evaluations across Innovate UK. - Lead stakeholder engagements and undertake analysis for Monitoring and Evaluation plans for public sector business cases. - Develop sector-wide Monitoring and Evaluation plans with IUK sector leads. - Support government-facing innovation evidence to inform Innovate UK’s policy. - Lead analysis to support innovation systems and policy analysis. Benefits - 30 days’ annual leave. - 10.5 public and privilege days. - Flexible working hours. - Exceptional defined benefit pension scheme. - Access to a variety of support networks and discount schemes.
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