Impact and Evaluation Manager

Fair Education Alliance

Hours
37.5 hours per week

About the Organisation

Fair Education Alliance (FEA) is a cross-sector coalition of around 300 member organisations working together to tackle educational inequality across England. Its shared vision is to ensure that no child’s opportunities or success are limited by their socioeconomic background. FEA brings together organisations from different sectors, education phases, and regions, supporting children and young people from early childhood through to career development.

Collectively, its members provide direct support to millions of young people each year, alongside wider support through funding, training, research, and campaigning. FEA advocates for an inclusive education system that values skills and wellbeing alongside academic attainment and helps all children and young people thrive regardless of their background. Its work is structured around five long-term Fair Education Impact Goals, addressing inequalities in early development, attainment, wellbeing, essential skills, and progression into further education, employment, and training.

About the role

The Impact and Evaluation Manager role at the Fair Education Alliance offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to educational equity by strengthening how impact, progress and learning are understood and communicated. The role involves developing and implementing evaluation frameworks, collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data, producing high-quality reports, and supporting teams and partners to use evidence effectively.

It also provides the opportunity to contribute to organisational impact frameworks, membership updates, major events and wider systems-change initiatives. This position requires strong analytical, communication and organisational skills, curiosity, collaboration and the ability to turn complex evidence into clear, practical insights that support learning, improvement and meaningful change for children and young people.

Responsibilities

Work with the Place-based Team:

• Partner with the Heads of Place-based Collaboration Partnerships to implement tailored evaluation frameworks for each Partnership.
• Support the Place-based Collaboration team to implement the evaluation framework for the MSA
• Network, including measuring the impact of individual Place-based Collaboration events.
• Lead on data collection and analysis within each Place-based Collaboration Partnership to support progress against the partnership’s intended impact. Where required, work with external partners on specialist data analysis.
• Lead on the development of Place-based Collaboration impact and progress reports for key funders and stakeholders.
• Ensure any data collection involving children and young people is conducted ethically, with appropriate consent and in line with the FEA’s safeguarding policy.

Work with the wider FEA Secretariat Team:

• Support the Head of Impact and Evaluation with the development and maintenance of FEA’s organisational impact framework, tracking progress against outcomes.
• Work with the Head of Impact and Evaluation to establish methods (such as case studies, focus groups, or thematic analysis) to track and report on outcomes across the team.
• Lead on the impact analysis of FEA’s major events - the FEA Summit and the Youth Summit.
• Lead on the FEA’s annual Membership Update Process, ensuring high response rates and high-quality data capture.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative impact and evaluation data and analysis to support the FEA’s annual report and regular governance reporting.
• Lead the production of high-quality reports for both internal and external audiences.
• Work with the Head of Impact and Evaluation and the Comms team to ‘learn out loud’, sharing what we know with wider audiences via a variety of mediums including blog posts and social media.
• Work with the Head of Impact and Evaluation to build the impact, evaluation and learning capability of colleagues across FEA, through training, guidance and support to set and measure ambitious goals.
• Working with the wider team to ensure we are using AI ethically to support our evaluation practices.

Skills, Competencies, Experience & Attributes

Experience & Knowledge:

• Designing and implementing Theories of Change, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) frameworks, ideally within the charity, education or social impact sector.
• Collecting, analysing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data to track progress against strategic or programmatic goals.
• Producing high-quality impact and progress reports for funders, trustees or other external stakeholders.
• Managing evaluation activity across multiple partners, projects or teams at the same time.
• Working closely with delivery or partnership teams to embed evaluation practice into their day-to-day work.
• Working with a CRM system to gather and analyse data.
• Using AI tools ethically in evaluation work.

Skills & Attributes:

• Strong quantitative and qualitative research and analysis skills, with confidence using relevant tools ( Excel, survey platforms, data visualisation tools).
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for a range of audiences, including funders and non-evaluation specialists.
• Excellent written communication, with the ability to produce compelling, high-quality reports.
• Strong relationship-building skills, able to work collaboratively with colleagues and partners across the organisation without direct authority.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing deadlines simultaneously.

Knowledge:

• Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) frameworks and methodologies.
• Theory of Change and outcomes-based approaches to impact measurement.
• Salesforce or other CRM systems.
• GDPR and data protection considerations relevant to data collection and storage.
• Evaluation approaches for systems change initiatives and complex social change programmes

Mindsets & Values:

• Commitment to the FEA’s mission and a genuine belief in educational equity.
• Intellectual curiosity and rigour, with a genuine interest in using evidence to drive improvement.
• A collaborative approach, comfortable supporting and influencing colleagues across teams you don’t manage.
• Comfortable working in a newly created role, and enthusiastic about shaping how evaluation is embedded across a growing organisation.

Compensation & Benefits

• 38 days per year, including our 3-day winter shutdown and eight flexible bank holidays. Pro-rata for part-time working.
• Comprehensive pension scheme (up to 6% employer contribution), cash plan healthcare package, and professional development budget.

Conditions of employment

• You must have the right to work in the UK. 

Working locations

• Hybrid model, working in the London office and remotely.
• Will be expected to attend the office at least once a month. Your work will include working closely with colleagues in our Place-based Collaboration Partnerships in Liverpool, South Yorkshire and the West Midlands, and you will be expected to travel to those areas regularly, on average once a month per location. 

How to apply

• We are committed to inclusive and equitable recruitment and will be using the Applied platform to manage the process. This platform helps us to minimise bias in our selection and focus on your skills and experience.
• We will ask you to complete your personal details, respond to three short questions (250 words each), and upload your current CV. Your short questions will be assessed without reference to your personal details or CV. Your responses will be scored by multiple reviewers using a structured rubric. Your CV will be anonymised and reviewed separately, after your responses to the three questions have been assessed.
• The questions that you will be asked to answer for your application on the Applied portal are:
  • Question 1: What is the main skill or attribute that you would bring to this role at the Fair Education Alliance?
  • Question 2: Tell us about a time you evaluated a systems change, place-based or partnership initiative. What was the biggest challenge, and how did you address it?
  • Question 3: Describe a time you encouraged colleagues or partners to engage with evidence, reflection, or learning. What approach did you take, and what was the result?
• Please start your application on the Applied portal. We only accept applications made on the Applied portal.
• We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments for any part of the process, please add details to the reasonable adjustment question on the application form on Applied. If you are unable to attend an in-person interview on any of the dates supplied, please state this on your application form, and we will do our best to accommodate. 
• If you have any questions about any aspect of the appointment process or require any additional information, please contact [email protected].

Interviews

• If you are shortlisted, the interview process will consist of two rounds. For the first round, you’ll be invited to an online interview. For the final round, you will be asked to prepare a presentation in advance, which will be followed by an in-depth interview discussion that will take place in person at the FEA London office.
• First-round interviews are on 9th or 10th November 2026 (online)
• Final interviews are on 16th November (in person at the FEA office in London)

Policies

The Fair Education Alliance is committed to its equality and diversity policy. We want to do all we can to prevent discrimination in any form. We ask all candidates to complete the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form. Completion is optional. Any responses you give will assist us in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Your responses will be kept strictly confidential and will not be used in any decisions affecting you.

The Fair Education Alliance is committed to safeguarding all the children and young people we work and interact with. We take this responsibility seriously, with the focus being on their safety and welfare. All our employees will likely have some interaction with children and young people we work with, whether at an event or through our youth engagement work; therefore, all offers of employment are conditional on referencing and a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, and all employees are required to take part in regular safeguarding training. For more information, please refer to our Safeguarding Policy. The offer of employment will be conditional on a Basic DBS Check. You are required to declare any criminal convictions ahead of this DBS Check. 

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