Senior Research and Evaluation Manager

Type: Fixed term contract

Duration: 2 years (potential to extend)

Location: Hybrid (Head office/remote/KCL)

Salary FTE: From £41,574 to £46,637 (depending on experience)

Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week)

Can you inspire and lead a team?  Bring your experience and expertise to further develop our organisation?  Support a team of peer researchers to develop their own research and evaluation skills and appropriately use their lived experience in their work?

We are recruiting for a Senior Research and Evaluation Manager role within our team.  This is a key role within our organisation, joining our managers group alongside colleagues in public involvement (including youth involvement), peer research, communications, and operations. This role will have programme and line management responsibility for 3 or 4 staff working from a lived experience perspective.  Specifically the role will work upon a new public health evaluation programme with colleagues at McPin and The University of Exeter, and a qualitative study exploring sexism and impact on girls mental health as part of a large Wellcome funded grant led by researchers at Kings College London in collaboration with researchers in Tokyo.

We are looking for someone with well-developed research and evaluation skills applied to mental health and public health contexts, specifically advanced qualitative methods and social theory. The two current projects require advanced qualitative skills, working to deliver evaluations to tight deadlines and supporting other staff to analyse complex data, including cross-national analysis. The role will also require the postholder to develop research and evaluation skills in others, including community partners. They will lead on writing reports, papers and new project tenders, as well as co-developing larger proposals with university partners as opportunities arise.

Our team is committed to transforming mental health research through collaboration, inclusion and a belief in equity and anti-oppressive behaviour.  We strongly encourage applications from Black people, People of Colour, people who are LGBTQIA+, those with a disability and those who identify themselves in marginalised groups, as well as people with lived experience of mental health issues.

We offer benefits including a competitive salary, hybrid/flexible working, a NEST Pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, a wellbeing support and mentoring scheme, an individual training budget and access to an Employee Assistance Programme and healthcare cash plan with Hospital Saturday Fund.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 1^st April 2025, 9 am.  The interviews will be on Wednesday 9th April.

For any queries please contact Vanessa Pinfold, Research Director, at vanessapinfold@mcpin.org to discuss the post.

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