Job description

This is a remote position.

Evaluation Manager - Ireland or UK

Note: this role is open to Ireland or UK residents only

Closes: 26 February 2025

Summary

HII is seeking an experienced evaluator to lead an existing evaluation team. A HII Evaluation Manager is a hands on role that delivers all aspects of an evaluation, sometimes as a Team Leader, other times supporting Team Leaders - depending on the nature of the evaluation itself. HII Evaluation Managers are the heart of HII's evaluation work: coordinating analytical and data collection teams, liaising with clients and working alongside technical experts and Team Leaders to synthesise and communicate complex learning.

In this role, people skills are just as important as technical evaluation skills. The successful candidate must possess the best possible English writing skills and have a successful track record in one or more similar roles.

To be successful in this role you will have 7+ years experience conducting humanitarian and/or development evaluations. You should be comfortable conducting sampling plans, mixed methods investigations and delivering high quality evaluative analysis in English.

You will be working across our projects delivering a variety of evaluations for international donors, NGOs, the UN and INGOs. This is a role for someone able to work effectively remotely and under pressure. The geographical focus is in East Africa, MENA, south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

The Role

We have a social mission to increase impact in life saving and human development programs globally. This role is central to helping our clients increase impact on those contexts. Specifically, t his role involves:

INCEPTION - Designing evaluation frameworks; creating and coding qual and quant investigatory toolkits; and conducting high quality desk reviews.

TRAINING - Training data collection teams.

DATA COLLECTION - Management of data collection teams; personally conducting qualitative interviews and the occasional focus group; ensuring data quality standards are maintained; and ensure effective knowledge management.

ANALYSIS - Coordinating mixed methods triangulated data analysis that focuses on high value findings and adheres to HII's comprehensive Quality Assurance process.

FINDINGS DISSEMINATION - Collaboratively draft and present reports, summaries and presentations.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT - Coordinating your team including senior Team Leaders, QA Leads, Project Officers, Analysts and any external technical experts.

LEARNING - Engaging as a leader in HII's internal learning processes including post project and quarterly lessons sessions and the implementation of changes from those lessons.

CULTURAL - Ensuring high levels of ethics and technical competency across projects.

TRUSTED & ETHICAL ADVISER - Ensuring your team is building lasting client relationships through professionalism, quality and ethical evaluative approaches orientated to helping clients increase impact.

INCLUSION - Ensuring all M&E projects are intersectional, conflict, disability and gender sensitive.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

7+ years experience in evaluations in the humanitarian and/or development sector, preferably with experience in multi-sectoral evaluations; AND
A full mixed methods technical skillset including both qualitative and quantitative skillsets (these will be tested during the recruitment process); AND
The highest possible standards of writing in English; AND
Minimum education level of a Masters in a relevant areas (e.g., statistics, humanitarian); AND
Complete natural fluency in written and spoken English; AND
Demonstrated leadership experience in small teams; AND
A strong learning orientation; AND
Complete alignment with HII values and goals on learning, inclusion and localisation.

The Humanitarian Impact Institute celebrates diversity, disability, social mobility and the benefits this brings to our organisation and the communities we serve.

We want people from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds to apply to work with us regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or identity, religion, political views, disability, nationality, background or age. In fact, many of our people are from these backgrounds.

In this context what we value most is your passion for, and skills directed to, increasing impact in humanitarian and emergency responses and development programs.

Our application screening process is anonymised to ensure we select candidates for interview based on merit.

Benefits

This is a permanent full-time role in HII's core team, working remotely but you must be based either in Ireland or the UK with the full legal right to live and work in either country on a full employment contract.

This role will have a competitive base salary in the range of EUR50,000 along with:

you can work from home;
work flexibly to cater for carers, parents and other circumstances;
generous leave provisions;
serious learning growth opportunities;
work with an exceptional team on important projects;
performance based compensation;
pension; and
you will be contributing to meaningful and effective live saving or human development programs globally.

How to Apply

To apply simply submit:

your CV, and
a cover letter, and
a completed application form.

Please ensure you complete the full application form, otherwise your CV cannot be considered as HII conducts blind shortlisting based on this information.

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