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About the Roundhouse:
The Roundhouse is a youth charity and independent multi-arts venue based in Camden, London. We've spent the past 20 years shaping the UK’s cultural landscape as a home for world-class music, boundary-breaking theatre, circus, poetry and immersive installations. We're the UK’s leading creative centre for young people, engaging more than 10,000 young people annually through our creative youth programme.
The Role
As our Senior Programmes Business and Evaluation Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful delivery of Roundhouse's creative programmes for young people. Leading the Programme Business Team, you'll oversee the operational infrastructure that underpins our youth offer – from programme planning, timetabling and business systems, to monitoring, evaluation, compliance and financial management – enabling high-quality experiences for thousands of young people each year.
Reporting to the Head of Young People (Interim), you'll manage the Programme Business Manager, Alumni Manager and Youth Programme Data and Operations Coordinator, working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation to deliver efficient, compliant and insight-led services. You'll use data and evaluation to inform strategic decision-making, drive continuous improvement and ensure robust reporting against organisational and funding objectives.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced operational leader who enjoys translating strategy into action, improving systems and processes, and leading high-performing teams. You'll play a key role in supporting Roundhouse's mission to put young people at the heart of everything we do while helping shape the future of our youth programmes.
About you:
You'll be an experienced operational leader with a strong track record of managing business support functions, leading high-performing teams and delivering continuous improvement. You'll be confident using data and evaluation to inform decision-making, with experience of monitoring impact, producing insightful reports and implementing effective systems and processes. You'll also bring strong financial management skills, a collaborative approach to working across teams and stakeholders, and a thorough understanding of compliance, including safeguarding, health and safety and GDPR. Above all, you'll be passionate about creating the conditions that enable exceptional opportunities and outcomes for young people.
Due to the nature of this role, you must be available to commence work by the end of November 2026.
We welcome applications from people who feel they can bring their own skills, experiences and ideas to the table and empower those around them to do the same. We encourage those currently underrepresented across the cultural sector and all intersections of our diverse society to apply.
The successful candidate must have a current and acceptable DBS check, or be willing to undertake one due to the nature of the role.
For more information please download the full job description from our website and if you would like to apply, and feel you have the skills and experience we are looking for, please click “Apply Now” to complete your application by midnight on Sunday 6th September 2026.
Contract: Fixed-Term until 30th July 2027
Working Hours: 35 hours per week (excluding breaks); Weekend and evening work will be required according to business needs.
Salary: £47,443.45 per annum
Application Deadline: Sunday 6th September 2026.
First Stage Interviews: w/c 21st September 2026 in-person
Second Stage Interviews: w/c 5th October in-person
Benefits:
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25 days’ holiday per year plus bank holidays pro rata, increasing after 2 years service up to 30 days
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Ability to buy up to 3 days annual leave
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Pension scheme
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Cycle to Work, Tech and Home Scheme
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Season Ticket Loan
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Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
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Health Cash Plan
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Group Life Assurance
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Staff discount at our bar and café
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Complimentary staff tickets
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Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave
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Staff networks, forms and social groups
All personal data submitted to the Roundhouse in the form of personal details forms is used for recruitment purposes and equal opportunities reporting only. By submitting a personal details form, you consent to the Roundhouse retaining your personal data for these purposes. Personal details forms contain your name, address and details relating to your gender, religion and nationality. All forms are anonymised before use. In accordance with GDPR all information submitted by unsuccessful applicants will be deleted within six months.
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Since the 1960s we've opened up space for creativity to empower people and communities - day in, night out
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Evaluation Manager
£47,150 per annum + benefits
Full-time, fixed term until January 2028
Central London (hybrid working, minimum one day per week in the office)
Education Endowment Foundation
Our client, Education Endowment Foundation is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and education achievement. They do this by supporting schools, nurseries and colleges to improve teaching and learning for two-to 19-year-olds through better use of evidence.
Role:
We’re looking for an Evaluation Manager to commission and oversee robust, cost-effective evaluations of promising projects, manage a portfolio of studies, and contribute to the development of methodological best practice at the heart of the EEF’s work. As an Evaluation Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in commissioning and managing high-quality, cost-effective evaluations of EEF-funded projects. You’ll oversee a portfolio of studies from design to delivery, working closely with external evaluators and programme teams to ensure rigorous, practical evaluations and clear communication of findings. This is a chance to shape influential research, strengthen the evidence base on what works in education, and contribute to the EEF’s wider strategic work.
In this role you will:
- Commission evaluations in priority areas, including critically reviewing evaluation proposals to ensure proposed designs are high quality and cost-effective and that the most suitable external evaluators are appointed
- Manage evaluation projects once an external evaluator is appointed and being the primary point of contact for the evaluator
- Liaise between the evaluator and the delivery team (that is delivering the intervention) to ensure the evaluation project is set up effectively with a high-quality design (working closely with colleagues in EEF’s Programmes team)
- Work closely with the evaluator and delivery team to understand the practical issues involved in delivering evaluations and providing support when problems arise
- Manage evaluation contracts and budgets, and monitoring delivery of evaluation plans
- Conduct technical reviews of protocols, study plans, statistical analysis plans and evaluation reports
- Work closely with EEF’s Programmes and Dissemination and Impact teams to ensure that published reports are of high quality and effectively communicate findings to an audience of practitioners, academics, policymakers and the general public
- Develop and improve evaluation guidance and resources to clarify best practice and build the capacity of evaluators to conduct high quality research.
Candidate:
You'll be able to demonstrate:
- A commitment to the aims of the EEF and a genuine interest in the education sector in England
- An understanding of technical aspects of evaluation methodologies (randomised controlled trials, quasi-experimental designs, choice of outcome measurement, implementation and process evaluations (IPEs), etc.) and an ability to identify high quality evaluation plans and reports
- Experience in delivering or commissioning quantitative evaluation projects in education, health, or another related field
- Strong relationship management skills including managing stakeholder performance and differences in opinion
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to communicate complex information to a variety of audiences including practitioners, academics, and policymakers
- An organised and methodical approach, with excellent project management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- The ability to work independently with strong attention to detail and a commitment to fact checking own work, as well as the ability to work closely and collaboratively across teams
- A proactive, flexible, and pragmatic approach to evaluation, with an ability to balance a commitment to rigour with accessibility and impact
- A degree in an education, economics, policy, statistics, data science, sciences, or health-related subject
- A commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
In addition, there are a few desirable skills for this role which could help you to stand out. Great if you already have them, but we don’t expect any candidate to have them all, and will provide training as required for the right candidate:
- Experience in delivering or commissioning quasi-experimental evaluations
- Experience in delivering or commissioning evaluations or research in Further Education (FE) / post-16
- A PhD or Masters with training in quantitative methods and/or mixed methods
- Experience conducting relevant statistical analysis and/or qualitative analysis.
Apply:
Please send (via the "Redirect to recruiter" button below) your CV together with a personal statement addressing the following:
- Please detail your experience of carrying out and/or commissioning evaluations, being specific on the evaluation methods that were used, such as randomised-controlled trials, quasi-experimental evaluations and mixed-methods implementation and process evaluations (IPEs). Please clearly describe the role you played and your related responsibilities in these evaluations. (300 words)
- The Evaluation Manager role requires strong relationship management. Please describe your experience of stakeholder management, providing clear examples that focus on the specific role that you played in managing these stakeholders. (300 words)
Please only include your initials on the personal statement, no full names or contact details. These can be included on your CV. If you applied for this role recently and directly with EEF and were not shortlisted for interview please do not apply again.
Closing date: Tuesday 25 Aug (11.59)
First stage interviews: w/c 1 Sep 2026
Second stage interviews: w/c 7 Sep 2026
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