Location: Any Cabinet Office Hub nationally: Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, York
Anticipated length: 1 – 2 years
About us
The GovXchange programme is an exciting programme designed jointly by Cabinet Office and Local Government Association, to promote skills and experience sharing between local and central government.
This programme offers an opportunity for civil servants to undertake secondments to local or strategic authorities, and for employees from Local or strategic authorities to be seconded into the Civil Service. The programme provides a formalised way to increase collaboration, develop leadership and strengthen our collective impact. It offers a rare chance to build bridges across different parts of government and work together to make a real difference for local communities. We are seeking a small number of vacancy opportunities and secondees to
participate. The programme will be open to a range of grades, professions and secondment arrangements including shorter or longer term secondments, part-time arrangements or interchanges/job swaps. Our aim is to provide flexibility to enable arrangements that work best for both the host organisation and the secondee.
About the role
As a senior evaluation adviser, you’ll work within ‘accelerators’. An accelerator is a multidisciplinary blended team bringing together colleagues from local government, central government and the wider public sector to work on a place-based project to prototype solutions to complex policy issues. Examples of some of the accelerators in our portfolio include ‘violence against women and girls’ in Islington, ‘special educational needs and disabilities’ in Nottingham and Sandwell, ‘economic inactivity’ in Wakefield, and ‘neighbourhood health’ in Plymouth and Liverpool.
You’ll be responsible for embedding evaluation and monitoring into the accelerator’s work. At the same time, you’ll also be developing guidance with fellow evaluation advisers on good practice for adaptive evaluation that will support the overarching ‘Test, Learn and Grow’ programme and influence the wider public sector evaluation landscape.
About you
Essential skills and/or experience:
* Evaluation delivery
* Communicating analysis and insight
* Data ethics and privacy
* Evaluation planning and strategy
* Monitoring and evaluation across the product life cycle
* Product and service monitoring
* Quality assurance of data and analysis
* Logical and creative thinking
* Agile and Lean practices
* Inclusivity
Desirable skills and/or experience
* Behavioural science knowledge
* Place-based evaluation skills
To apply
This secondment opportunity is being offered as part of the GovXchange programme. Full details about the programme are available on the GovXchange website.
We continuously match suitable individuals to opportunities as part of the programme. Therefore, if you are interested in being considered for this particular role, we recommend completing the expression of interest form as soon as possible.
Should this specific role be filled before you apply, your details will be added to the GovXchange database to be considered for future opportunities available as part of the programme. You will be contacted if a role is identified that you are a suitable match for.
If you have any questions please contact secondments@local.gov.uk.
