Senior Consultant / Associate Director - Social Policy Evaluation

Ipsos
Manchester, London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Consulting & AdvisorySkills: ["Stakeholder management","Client management","Coaching","Risk management","Proposal development"]

Lead policy and programme evaluations from inception through reporting, shaping evaluation design and theories of change using mixed-method approaches. Manage clients, teams, budgets, risks, and timelines while overseeing research tool development, data collection, and qualitative and quantitative analysis. Coordinate clear outputs, lead stakeholder meetings, and coach junior colleagues. Associate Director will oversee larger, complex workstreams and play a senior role in proposals and new opportunities, including major education technology evaluations.

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Senior Consultant / Associate Director - Social Policy Evaluation

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Job Summary

Lead policy and programme evaluations from inception through reporting, shaping evaluation design and theories of change using mixed-method approaches. Manage clients, teams, budgets, risks, and timelines while overseeing research tool development, data collection, and qualitative and quantitative analysis. Coordinate clear outputs, lead stakeholder meetings, and coach junior colleagues. Associate Director will oversee larger, complex workstreams and play a senior role in proposals and new opportunities, including major education technology evaluations.
Location: Manchester, London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Consulting & Advisory
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage policy and programme evaluations or substantial workstreams from inception through reporting.
  • •Contribute to evaluation design, including theories of change, evaluation questions, frameworks, and mixed-method approaches.
  • •Manage clients, project teams, budgets, timelines, risks, and quality, ensuring effective delivery.
  • •Oversee development of research tools, data collection, analysis, and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence.
  • •Coordinate reports and presentations, lead client meetings, maintain stakeholder relationships, and coach junior colleagues; manage proposals and business development; Associate Director provides senior oversight for larger/complex workstreams.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Annual LeavePension ContributionIncome ProtectionLife Assurance

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive experience designing and delivering policy or programme evaluations for public sector clients or within the public sector.
  • •Proficiency in process, impact, theory-based and mixed-method evaluation approaches.
  • •Experience developing theories of change and evaluation frameworks.
  • •Experience managing projects, clients, teams, budgets, risks, and competing priorities.
  • •Ability to analyse and synthesise qualitative and quantitative evidence, producing high-quality outputs.
Experience:Public sectorPolicy evaluationSocial policyEducation technologyMixed-method evaluation
Skills:Stakeholder managementClient managementCoachingRisk managementProposal development

Company Brief

Ipsos
Global market research and consulting firm providing public opinion polling, market intelligence, and analytics to help organizations understand consumers, citizens, and markets across sectors and geographies.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 1975
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