Research and Evaluation Officer England
Job description
At The Brilliant Club, we mobilise the PhD community to support students from less advantaged backgrounds to access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there. We work with students who, because of their family income, parental history or the postcode they live in, are at risk of missing out on the life-changing opportunities linked to higher education. We are excited to be recruiting a Research and Evaluation Officer to join The Brilliant Club. The role will help deliver the goals set out in , our ambitious strategy for 2021-26, by supporting the charity's growing research and evaluation . The Research and Evaluation Officer will contribute to improving the evidence base for what works to drive fairer student outcomes. They will do this by supporting universities and other education organisations to conduct robust evaluations of their student access and success work. The Research and Evaluation Officer will join a small consultancy team, which consists of a Research and Evaluation Manager, who the role will report to, and a Senior Research and Evaluation Officer. The team is part of the charity's wider research and impact team, who collectively have three areas of responsibility: evaluating and reporting the impact of the charity's programmes, quality assuring the programmes, and providing research and evaluation consultancy and strategy support to education organisations. The successful candidate will have strong research skills, including in quantitative research, and will be able to communicate technical information and findings to university access and success practitioners. They will also demonstrate professional skills in relation to stakeholder management and project management and will champion the charity's values and embody them in interactions with colleagues and partners. While this role can be based at any of our offices throughout the UK, some travel will be required (mainly to London) to attend in-person meetings. The Brilliant Club
