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Who we are
Chefs in Schools is an ambitious charity that’s rapidly growing. Our mission is to improve kids' health, through improving school food & food education. We focus our efforts in areas of high socio-economic deprivation, where more than a third of children are entitled to free school meals, and diet-related disease is driving further inequality.
We support and train school kitchen teams to serve the best, freshest and tastiest food possible, alongside meaningful food education. We share learning and resources, aiming to inspire and enable others to follow our lead.
We’re backed by some of the biggest names in food and have ambitious targets to ensure every child has access to incredible school food and food education, setting them up for life with the skills and knowledge to feed themselves well.
About you and the role
This role comes at a pivotal time for Chefs in School and will be key to supporting our vision and ambitions for the next four year strategic period.
You will have significant experience in monitoring and evaluating programmes in a charity, non-profit, or social enterprise setting. As this is a standalone role with no direct reports, we are looking for a unique professional who is highly strategic but equally happy to roll up their sleeves and be hands-on. You will lead on high-level impact strategy, and you will also be the person designing surveys, managing databases, and directly analyzing the data.
To thrive in this role, you should be:
An Analytical Thinker & Practical Doer: You can confidently clean, manage, and analyze quantitative and qualitative data yourself, translating complex numbers into highly visual, easy-to-digest reports for our team and funders.
An Empathetic & Pragmatic Collaborator: You understand that school kitchens and delivery teams are incredibly busy. You excel at designing evaluation tools that are low-burden for our partners but high-yield for our learning.
Curious & Improvement-Driven: You don't just collect data to check a box for funders; you are passionate about building a "learning culture" where findings are actively used to iterate and improve our programmes.
As we work with children and young people, an offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and DBS clearance, in line with our safeguarding policy.
Key responsibilities:
Leading on developing and implementing Chefs in Schools’ evaluation and learning strategy, in line with our Theory of Change.
Owning and overseeing the impact dashboard
Ownership for embedding a learning culture, ensuring that timely and actionable insights are generated and fed back into design and delivery to support continuous improvement.
Using internal data and external research to identify what works, ensuring these insights are shared internally and across the sector in line with our strategic objectives.
Support delivery teams to collect quantitative and qualitative data using the evaluation toolkit. Ensuring data collection is proportionate and meaningful with high completion rates.
Support delivery teams to understand how impact data can help to improve and develop programme effectiveness, whilst maintaining quality.
Lead on the dissemination of findings across the organisation, including presenting at internal meetings and events
Translating data into clear, evidence-based recommendations to guide decision-making
Work across the organisation to ensure our impact is effectively communicated with external audiences.
Identify future research, evaluation and learning priorities that could strengthen Chefs in Schools’ programmes and contribute to wider sector understanding of effective approaches to improving school food.
Work with external academics and researchers to commission external evaluations to develop our evidence base and contribute to national and international studies .
Essential Skills and Experience
MEL Experience: Proven experience in a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) or impact measurement role within a charity, non-profit, or social enterprise setting.
Evaluation Design: Confidence designing and implementing practical evaluation frameworks, data collection tools, logic models, or Theories of Change.
Hands-on Data Skills: Strong analytical skills with the ability to independently collect, clean, and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data. You must be highly proficient in Excel/Google Sheets and comfortable managing data platforms.
Translation of Evidence: A track record of critically appraising evidence and translating findings into actionable, practical recommendations for delivery teams.
Communication & Reporting: Ability to produce high-quality, highly visual, and engaging reports and presentations tailored to different audiences (e.g., trustees, funders, operational staff).
Relationship Building: Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and support busy operational teams to value and embed data collection.
Desirable Skills and Experience
Sector Knowledge: Knowledge of food systems, school environments, or children and young people’s health and wellbeing.
External Evaluations: Experience commissioning, managing, or collaborating with external academics and research partners to evaluate programmes.
Tech & Systems: Familiarity with specific data visualization tools (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau) or CRM databases (ours is Beacon) to streamline data capture and reporting.
Benefits
You would be joining a friendly, supportive team who work hard, but believe in a healthy work / life balance. We seek a diverse range of perspectives, skills, experience and knowledge. Joining a small, collaborative team means you’ll be able to contribute to, and draw on, a variety of projects and strategic insights.
We offer 33 days (pro-rata for part time positions) of holiday per year, including bank holidays, a Cycle to Work scheme, hybrid working, free access to the CODE app for discounted restaurants & hospitality venues, enhanced parental leave. We are committed to developing our team and will support you with relevant training opportunities including £250 towards elective training and development of your choice.
We also offer Bupa Dental Insurance, Income Protection Insurance, as well as access to the AIG Smart Health Platform which offers health benefits including free rapid access online GP appointments, free counselling and wellbeing support.
Application process
In line with our commitment to ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process, we invite candidates to answer a series of questions related to the role. Please follow this link to answer the questions and submit your application along with your CV.
We recommend that you develop your answers offline and copy them in when you’re ready to ensure you don’t lose your work if interrupted.
Your answers will go through our sifting process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers. A long list of candidates will then additionally have their CVs reviewed. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a 30 mins online interview. Successful candidates will be invited to attend a second, in-person interview and complete a task at our office in Brixton, London.
Expected duration of this application process: 4 weeks
1st Round interview will take place the w/c 7th September
We’re on a mission to transform kids’ health through food – plate by plate, class by class, school by school.



We’re looking for someone who makes things happen
We’re looking for a proactive, curious and practical research and evaluation leader who spots opportunities, builds partnerships, and helps us turn lived experience into evidence that improves services, influences policy and drives change.
The Hepatitis C Trust is one of the UK’s biggest lived-experience organisations working in Inclusion Health. With almost 500 staff and volunteers, our teams work in communities and prisons across England, and in parts of Scotland and Wales, reaching people that mainstream health services routinely struggle to engage.
This gives us a unique reach among populations whose voices are too often missing from research, policy and service design.
Our research and evaluation programme aims to:
We’re looking for someone who:
Why this role?
You’ll have genuine autonomy to help shape a growing research and evaluation function within one of the UK’s leading lived-experience organisations. Most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to generate evidence that changes services, influences policy and improves outcomes for some of the most marginalised communities in society.
Recruitment timetable
Application deadline: 11:59 PM on Sunday 23rd August
First-round interviews: 7-8 September 2026
Salary: £38-40k
The role can be full-time or part-time, depending on the successful candidate’s availability. Ideally, you’ll work from our London office at least two days a week, although we can be flexible for the right person.
The Hepatitis C Trust is committed to equity and inclusion, and particularly welcomes applications from people with lived experience of hepatitis C, drug use, homelessness, the criminal justice system, or other experiences of social exclusion.
The Hepatitis C Trust is a charity dedicated to eliminating hepatitis C in the UK by 2030.


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Role Overview
The Talent Set are delighted to partner with this charity on a fantastic Impact and Evaluation Manager role. This position involves leading impact measurement projects, developing KPIs, creating dashboards, and supporting organisational evaluation efforts on a flexible, part-time basis. This is a part-time, 3 day a week 12 month contract.
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What’s on Offer
Salary: £58,000 pro rata, 3 days a week. This is a 12 month contract, hybrid with 1 day a week in their London office.
How to Apply
To apply, please submit your CV demonstrating your suitability for this role by clicking the 'apply now' button (please do not apply via email). We aim to get back to all successful candidates within 48 working hours.
Commitment to Diversity
The Talent Set are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices, ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, or age. We actively encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds and are always happy to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair recruitment process.
Impact & Evaluation Manager
We are seeking an experienced Impact & Evaluation Manager to help shape how a growing national charity measures its impact, learns from evidence and strengthens opportunities for children across the UK.
Salary: £41,200 FTE (£24,720 actual)
Location: Hybrid with remote working and at least one day a week in London (SE11)
Hours: Part time, 21 hours per week (3 days)
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: Tuesday 11 August 2026
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to lead impact measurement and evaluation for a well-established national charity as it enters a new phase of growth.
You'll develop and refine evaluation frameworks and Theory of Change models, helping the organisation understand where it is making the greatest difference and how evidence can drive future decision making. Working closely with senior leaders and programme teams, you'll gather, analyse and interpret both qualitative and quantitative data, turning complex findings into practical recommendations.
Key responsibilities include:
Occasional travel across the UK will be required.
About You
You'll have experience designing and delivering evaluation frameworks and using both qualitative and quantitative research methods to measure impact.
You'll also bring:
Knowledge of the education, charity or social change sectors, experience with Salesforce or similar CRM systems, and familiarity with longitudinal research would be advantageous.
About the Organisation
This national charity is committed to improving opportunities for children through high-quality educational programmes. Working collaboratively with schools, educators and communities, it is focused on creating lasting change through evidence-led practice, innovation and continuous learning. The organisation offers a flexible, supportive working environment with excellent professional development opportunities and a strong commitment to employee wellbeing.
Other roles you may have experience of could include: Impact Manager, Evaluation Manager, Research Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Learning and Impact Manager, Evidence and Insights Manager, Research and Evaluation Manager, Performance and Insight Manager, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager, Data and Impact Manager.
Please note this role is being advertised by the recruitment agency on behalf of the hiring organisation.