Evaluation Manager (Procurement and Engagement)

at  British Council

Evaluation Manager (Procurement and Engagement)
Date: 12 Jun 2024
Location: London, UKM, GB
Company: British Council
We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.
We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.
Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.

MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES:

The main accountabilities for the post-holder will be as follows:

Procurement Management (approximately 40% of role)

• Communicating and raising awareness of the evaluation framework within British Council
• Developing Requests for Proposals with the EEL team and programme teams
• Overseeing the end-to-end management on our procurement platform including publishing proposals; shortlisting; organising panels; scoring pricing and providing feedback to suppliers
• Managing communication with framework of suppliers
• Owning procurement policy, the EEL team procurement checklist, and the summary pro forma template
• Co-ordinating and steering local evaluation procurement that does not pass through the framework of suppliers.

Contracting (5% of role)

• Issuing contracts; contract addendums and contract extensions
• Ensuring completion of outputs, reports, and summary pro forma template, to trigger milestone payments.
• Managing/ maintaining a database or tracker of previous evaluation framework and non-framework contracts
• Providing analysis and reporting on number, value, suppliers used etc for commissioned evaluations.

Engagement (approximately 30% of role)
Please note that there may be a dotted management line to a colleague in the marketing team to provide access to technical support, guidance and training on the engagement aspect of the role.

Curation (15% of role)

• Developing a pipeline of upcoming evaluation activity
• Maintaining the list of completed evaluations.
• Overseeing searchable repository of completed evaluations.
• Uploading relevant reports to research repository
• Uploading relevant reports to External website, including writing 50-word summary

Dissemination (10% of role)

• Writing newsletter content from latest evaluation reports
• Develop content for learning webinars (sharing best practice and findings)
• SharePoint/ intranet development and upkeep - content
• Overseeing British Council evaluation community of practice

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE ROLE:

Contract Type – Indefinite
Pay Band – 8
Salary range - £38,820 up to £46,203 plus £3,300 London allowance if based in London
Location – UK Wide (London, Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburg, Belfast)
Requirements – Candidates applying must have the legal right to work in the UK currently and in future as they will be no visa sponsorship.

THE ROLE:

This role leads the procurement and curation of evaluation reports for the British Council. This is throughout the life cycle of projects and programmes.
The role provides technical support to programme leads in the design of effective procurement strategies for their areas of work.
The role oversees the development of Requests for Proposals for externally commissioned evaluations and manages the pipeline of evaluation activity.
The role leads the engagement with the British Council framework of evaluation suppliers, using our procurement portal.
The role also has responsibility for the curation; dissemination and exhibition of completed evaluation reports.
The role ensures commissioned evaluation activity is of a high quality and delivers value for money. The role oversees the processes; guidance and policies to support this end.
The role may also support ad hoc project work as part of the Evidence, Evaluation and Learning team. The role may also be asked to lead on procurement for the Data, Evidence and Performance team.

ROLE SPECIFIC SKILLS

• Has an excellent understanding of the commercial market for evaluation services.
• Must have prior experience in commissioning evaluations and/ or relevant agency experience in developing submissions in response to requests for proposals.
• Understands and applies methods and tools of evaluation
• Uses concepts, terms and definitions consistent with accepted evaluation best practice
• Understands advantages and disadvantages of internal versus externally commissioned evaluations and takes steps to maximise independence of evaluations.
• Distinguishes different types and purposes evaluation and can specify evaluation approaches for each.
• Can recommend appropriate evaluation approaches, methods and tools to evaluate programmes consistent with a given intervention’s stage of implementation.
• Has strong project management skills
• Can apply project management skills to the curation and organisation of commissioned evaluation activity
• Has excellent writing skills
• Strong ability to distil and summarise evaluation findings for a range of non technical audiences.

Procurement Management (approximately 40% of role)

• Communicating and raising awareness of the evaluation framework within British Council
• Developing Requests for Proposals with the EEL team and programme teams
• Overseeing the end-to-end management on our procurement platform including publishing proposals; shortlisting; organising panels; scoring pricing and providing feedback to suppliers
• Managing communication with framework of suppliers
• Owning procurement policy, the EEL team procurement checklist, and the summary pro forma template
• Co-ordinating and steering local evaluation procurement that does not pass through the framework of suppliers

Contracting (5% of role)

• Issuing contracts; contract addendums and contract extensions
• Ensuring completion of outputs, reports, and summary pro forma template, to trigger milestone payments.
• Managing/ maintaining a database or tracker of previous evaluation framework and non-framework contracts
• Providing analysis and reporting on number, value, suppliers used etc for commissioned evaluations

Curation (15% of role)

• Developing a pipeline of upcoming evaluation activity
• Maintaining the list of completed evaluations.
• Overseeing searchable repository of completed evaluations.
• Uploading relevant reports to research repository
• Uploading relevant reports to External website, including writing 50-word summar

Dissemination (10% of role)

• Writing newsletter content from latest evaluation reports
• Develop content for learning webinars (sharing best practice and findings)
• SharePoint/ intranet development and upkeep - content
• Overseeing British Council evaluation community of practic