Evidence & Evaluation Manager/Senior Economist

Youth Futures Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organisation established in December 2019 to improve employment outcomes for young people from marginalised backgrounds. The foundation launched with an initial endowment of £90m from theReclaim Fund.

This role can be based at any of our hubs located in Birmingham, Leeds or London.

The Evidence & Evaluation Manager / Senior Economist will work in a dedicated Impact and Evidence directorate.

You will becentraltoourambition tocreatethe largest repository of robust evidence and evaluations of what works to support young peopleintogood jobs.

In thedirectorate, you will supporttheHead of Evaluationto ensure all Youth Futures investments are designed to provide robust evidence of what works.

The postholder will design, commission and manage impact evaluations and support impact evaluation methods (through a statistics or economics background) within the team. Working closely with commissioned independent evaluators, programme staff, wider delivery partners and colleagues in our Grants and Investment directorate, you will support existing programmes to move towards undertaking an impact evaluation (often a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) or quasi-experimental designs).

You will also work with colleagues to develop new programmes, which will improve the evidence base on supporting young people into good jobs by working with partners able to run larger-scale trials.

The Evidence & Evaluation Manager will also contribute to the development of our suite of evaluation architecture, enhancing our data infrastructure and administrative dataset access, as well as methodological guidance and standards. These will ensure that, as the What Works Centre for youth employment, our evidence is as credible and useful as possible.

We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home.

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.

Youth Futures Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organisation established in December 2019 to improve employment outcomes for young people from marginalised backgrounds. The foundation launched with an initial endowment of £90m from the Reclaim Fund.