Evidence and Impact Officer 

At Become, we offer a wide range of employment benefits to all Team Members including generous annual leave, flexible working from the start, life insurance, and a rewards package which includes a Health Cash Plan.  We’re proud that we support our staff and want to see everyone who works here thrive in their personal and professional life.  You can see more of the benefits that we offer to everyone on our website.

Salary and Benefits: £31, 785 per annum

Hours: This role is full-time (35 hours per week).  We offer flexible working options such as compressed hours and job-shares.

Location: Become team members mostly work remotely but have access to office space in London, and are expected to attend team meetings in London (usually once or twice per month).

About the Role

Become, the national charity for children in care and young care leavers, is here to make a difference to individual lives right now, and the care system as a whole for future generations. We believe that young people who’ve experienced care should have the same chances as everyone else to live happy, fulfilled lives. We put young people at the heart of everything we do – helping them to be powerful agents of positive change in their own lives, in the care system and in society.

The Evidence and Impact Officer will play a key role in improving Become’s approach to monitoring and evaluation, strengthening our research and evidence base, and ensuring that our policy influencing and service development is underpinned by robust evidence. This role will be part of the Policy, Campaigns and Communications department, but will work closely with colleagues in the Services department and across the organisation to deliver impact. We are looking for someone who is motivated, analytical, is passionate about improving the lives of care-experienced young people, and has a good understanding of research methods and data analysis.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

As an organisation serving children in care and young care leavers, we are keen to receive applications from people with experience of care. We are actively seeking to bring diversity of perspectives and experience, and especially welcome applications from those from racially marginalized communities and people with disabilities.  We ask all applicants to fill in an Equity and Diversity Monitoring from to better understand the diversity of applicants.  This is anonymous and cannot be connected with your application.

How to apply

At Become, we ask interested applicants to answer several competency-based questions.

Your application and answers will be reviewed anonymously to ensure fairness and help remove bias from the application process. You’ll need to send us your CV but it will only be considered if you score well as part of the anonymous review.

To apply, please follow the link to our recruitment platform here.

To apply for this role, you will need to:

• Provide us with a copy of your CV;
• Answer the questions below in no more than 400 words per question, providing relevant examples to demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience required;

The competency questions we would like you to answer as part of your application are:

• What is your motivation to work for Become and why are you interested in working to support care-experienced children and young people?
• Tell us about your experience of designing and delivering research projects, what methods have you used and how did you measure and evaluate their success?
• What experience do you have in analysing qualitative and quantitative data, and using the findings to inform policy positions or recommendations?
• What do you think some of the opportunities and challenges are when gathering feedback, evaluation or insights from young people?

If you would like an informal chat before applying, please contact Matt Blow, Policy and Public Affairs Manager ([email protected]) and we will arrange a convenient time.

Please also tell us if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you in your application.

Interview details:

Interviews will have two parts:

• A sessionwith young people;
• A panel interview with Become staff.

Interviews will be held virtually using a video calling app (Microsoft Teams or Zoom). If access to technology/WiFi is difficult for you, please contact us so we can assist in making suitable arrangements.

Become also wants to ensure fairness in all of our interviews so all successful shortlisted candidates will be sent the interview questions in advance.

Interviews will take place:

• Young people’s panel: 20 September
• Staff panel: 26 September

Please Note:

All applicants must have a Right to Work in the UK. Although the role is hybrid, we are unable to offer work visas or sponsorship for any candidates based outside of the UK.

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