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Senior Research and Evaluation Officer
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Young Women's Trust
Hybrid- Career category: Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 0-5 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Hybrid
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: £40,787 GBP-£42,421 GBP / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 13/02/2025
- Location: United Kingdom
About us
Young Women’s Trust champions young women aged 18 to 30 on low or no pay. We’re here to create a more equal world of work and raise young women’s incomes. We offer young women free coaching, feedback on job applications and information to help them get where they want to be. We bring together a network of thousands of young women to support each other, build their self- belief, and have their voices heard. We work with young women to campaign for equality in the workplace. And our research provides insight into what young women’s lives are really like, fuelling our campaigns for change.
Main responsibilities Research:
• Working closely with the Research Lead and YWT’s peer researchers, conduct and support the production of qualitative and quantitative research to inform YWT’s policy and influencing priorities and support campaign activity.
• Lead YWT’s peer research programme – including developing and facilitating training and supporting peer researchers to design research, conduct fieldwork, analyse research findings and develop recommendations.
• Work closely with the participation team to ensure that young women and people of marginalised genders are supported to fully engage and participate in our research and maintain an awareness of other opportunities across the organisation for them to shape and influence our work
Evaluation & Impact:
• Work closely with teams across the charity to design and conduct mixed methods evaluations of Young Women’s Trust’s services and other charitable activities, supporting the organisation to understand and improve its impact.
• Support regular monitoring of organisational performance, including supporting teams to define and report on key performance indicators and outcomes measures.
• Contribute towards embedding a data driven culture - upskilling and supporting colleagues to collect and make use of evaluation and impact data to inform their work.
Experience
• Experience of conducting qualitative and quantitative research to inform policy or practice.
• Experience of carrying out research with minoritised or marginalised groups through an intersectional lens.
• Experience or strong understanding of peer or participatory research methods.
• Experience of analysing datasets, including familiarity with government/ONS datasets.
• Experience and knowledge of evaluation methods and impact/performance measurement.
• Experience of carrying out research in partnership with other organisations and/or applying for research funding.
Young Women’s Trust champions young women aged 18 to 30 on low or no pay. We’re here to create a more equal world of work and raise young women’s incomes. We offer young women free coaching, feedback on job applications and information to help them get where they want to be. We bring together a network of thousands of young women to support each other, build their self- belief, and have their voices heard. We work with young women to campaign for equality in the workplace. And our research provides insight into what young women’s lives are really like, fuelling our campaigns for change.
Main responsibilities Research:
• Working closely with the Research Lead and YWT’s peer researchers, conduct and support the production of qualitative and quantitative research to inform YWT’s policy and influencing priorities and support campaign activity.
• Lead YWT’s peer research programme – including developing and facilitating training and supporting peer researchers to design research, conduct fieldwork, analyse research findings and develop recommendations.
• Work closely with the participation team to ensure that young women and people of marginalised genders are supported to fully engage and participate in our research and maintain an awareness of other opportunities across the organisation for them to shape and influence our work
Evaluation & Impact:
• Work closely with teams across the charity to design and conduct mixed methods evaluations of Young Women’s Trust’s services and other charitable activities, supporting the organisation to understand and improve its impact.
• Support regular monitoring of organisational performance, including supporting teams to define and report on key performance indicators and outcomes measures.
• Contribute towards embedding a data driven culture - upskilling and supporting colleagues to collect and make use of evaluation and impact data to inform their work.
Experience
• Experience of conducting qualitative and quantitative research to inform policy or practice.
• Experience of carrying out research with minoritised or marginalised groups through an intersectional lens.
• Experience or strong understanding of peer or participatory research methods.
• Experience of analysing datasets, including familiarity with government/ONS datasets.
• Experience and knowledge of evaluation methods and impact/performance measurement.
• Experience of carrying out research in partnership with other organisations and/or applying for research funding.
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