We’re Hiring!

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Two Exciting Project Officer Roles Available

Would you like to work for a growing evaluation consultancy and use your skills for good? Join The Evaluator and help charities and not-for-profit organisations demonstrate the impact of their work by “measuring the unmeasurable.” We’re thrilled to announce two new job opportunities in our dynamic team!

1. Project Officer – People-Focused Creator and Evaluator

Salary: £28,600 FTE
Hours: Part-time, flexible to fit around family commitments
Location: Hybrid – Mainly home working, with at least one day a week in Barnoldswick, Lancashire
Travel: Some travel required; access to a car and a full driving licence is advantageous

We’re looking for a creative, focused, and empathetic individual who is:

– Comfortable engaging with diverse groups and helping them feel at ease

– A skilled listener who can encourage people to express themselves

– Confident in creating and writing engaging reports

– Proficient in using Microsoft Word

2. Project Officer – Data-Focused Evaluator

Salary: £28,600 FTE
Hours: Part-time, flexible to fit around family commitments
Location: Hybrid – Mainly home working, with at least one day a week in Barnoldswick, Lancashire
Travel: Some travel required; access to a car and a full driving licence is advantageous

We’re looking for an analytical, detail-oriented individual who is:

– Confident turning data into actionable insights for reports

– Skilled in interpreting data, including spreadsheets, tables, and graphs

– Detail-focused with an eye for precision

– Proficient in using Microsoft Excel

Why Join The Evaluator?

At The Evaluator, you’ll work in a supportive environment with the opportunity to grow your skills. We’ll provide full training, and your work will have a meaningful impact on charities and not-for-profit organisations across the UK. From conservation projects to wellbeing initiatives, our work spans a diverse range of impactful causes.

For shortlisted applicants, we offer the chance to spend an afternoon with us to see how we work and ensure it’s the best fit for you.

How to Apply

Send your cover letter and CV to kirsty@theevaluator.co.uk or call Kirsty on 07837 896 698 for an informal chat. Applications will close once sufficient applications are received.

We welcome applications from disabled individuals and can make reasonable adjustments during the interview process. We also encourage applications from diverse backgrounds. Applicants must be located in the UK and have the right to work in the UK.

Join us and be part of a team that’s making a real difference!

Simple evaluation you can do yourself – Three tips to do your own evaluation

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Sometimes we get asked to quote for projects and the project is quite small, or the project team is quite small. They don’t have a large budget and although we’re always great value for money, sometimes it’s better to spend the money on delivery.

Our Director, Kirsty, used to run small projects like this and always carried out her own evaluation. She used this knowledge to create ‘The Evaluator’ and wanted to put together a guide for someone who has got a bit of public funding and a small project (maybe £50,000 or less).

If your project is small we recommend you do your own evaluation. There are always exceptions to the rule however and sometimes the project has a strong learning objective, which makes an evaluation particularly appropriate, but as a guide – that’s what we’d recommend.

Say you are running a project and you’ve got, for example  £35,000 worth of funding -how would you attempt to evaluate that? There are some really very simple things that you could do, as follows:

Idea 1: Have an internal focus group.

For example, you might put a meeting together and the three or four people who have been running the project and working on most of the tasks, might sit down and answer these three questions:

What went really well?

What surprised you about the people taking part?

What would you do differently?

Just that alone – having a discussion and applying it, is a really good start.

Idea 2: Mini data analysis.

You keep a note of attendance at events and look to see which days are busiest and do more of them.

Idea 3: Mini research interviews.

Ask the people taking part what they have enjoyed the most – then plan to repeat that for new people.

The important thing is to not see ‘evaluation’ as a big scary thing, but to see it as ‘how can we use the knowledge or information we have to improve’.

Good luck!