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Youth Futures Foundation, England (Hybrid)
£47,226 - £53,364 per year
The Senior Evidence and Evaluation Manager sits within the Impact and Evidence directorate at the heart of Youth Futures Foundation.
Posted 3 days ago
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England, United Kingdom (Hybrid) 0 miles
£47,226 - £53,364 per year
Full-time
Temporary (12 month fixed term contract)
Job description

The Senior Evidence and Evaluation Manager sits within the Impact and Evidence directorate at the heart of Youth Futures Foundation. You will play a central role in building the evidence base on what works to support young people into good jobs.

  • Working with three Heads of Evaluation, the Deputy Director and the Director of Impact and Evidence, you will help ensure our evaluations are designed to generate credible and useful evidence.
  • Your primary focus will be to lead the management and delivery of evaluation and evidence generation for Connected Futures.
  • Working closely with independent evaluators, local partnerships and colleagues across Youth Futures, you will lead evaluations that help partnerships learn as their work develops and build credible evidence of systems change
  • You will manage a portfolio of projects across our evaluation portfolio, leading some directly and overseeing others while supporting Evaluation Managers.

This role is a 12 months Fixed Term Contract (FTC) and can be based at our Birmingham, Leeds or London hub. We currently operate a hybrid model of two-days per week in the office and three-days from home.

For more information on this role, please download our recruitment pack.

Due to receiving high volumes of interest in our opportunities, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised deadline. To ensure your application is considered, please submit it as soon as possible.

Application resources
Organisation
Youth Futures Foundation View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 51 - 100

We are the national What Works Centre for youth employment, with a specific focus on marginalised young people.

Posted on: 09 October 2026
Closing date: 27 October 2026 at 10:00
Tags: Monitoring and Evaluation, Research

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