Senior Consultant / Associate Director – Social Policy Evaluation

Overview

As a Senior Consultant or Associate Director in Ipsos Public Affairs, you will lead policy and programme evaluations across social policy, with a flagship Education Technology programme. You will shape evaluation design, oversee client relationships and multi-disciplinary teams, and deliver evidence that informs policy and delivery. You’ll work on complex societal challenges across education, welfare, crime, and government, driving impact through robust mixed-method approaches. This is a mission-driven role with a strong emphasis on leadership, quality, and new opportunities in a collaborative, expert environment.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• pension contribution
• income protection
• life assurance
• health & wellbeing benefits
• professional development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Manage policy and programme evaluations from inception to reporting
• Contribute to evaluation design (theories of change, questions, frameworks, mixed-methods)
• Manage clients, project teams, budgets, timelines, risks and quality
• Oversee development of research tools, data collection, analysis and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence
• Coordinate reports, presentations and practical recommendations
• Lead client meetings and stakeholder relationships
• Coach and support junior colleagues
• Contribute to proposals and wider business development
• Associate Director: manage larger/complex projects, provide senior oversight of design and quality, lead senior client relationships and multidisciplinary teams, and drive proposals and opportunities

Key requirements

• Extensive experience designing and delivering public sector evaluations
• Proficiency in process, impact, theory-based and mixed-method evaluation
• Experience developing theories of change and evaluation frameworks
• Experience managing projects, clients, teams, budgets, risks and priorities
• Ability to analyse and synthesise qualitative and quantitative evidence
• Experience producing high-quality outputs and contributing to proposals
• For Associate Director: experience directing evaluations or managing larger/complex projects with senior responsibility for quality, clients, teams, budgets and risks, plus leading proposals

• Stakeholder management
• People coaching and mentoring
• Strategic thinking
• Theories of change
• Evaluation frameworks
• Mixed-method evaluation

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