Director – Economic Evaluation

🔸 Open to Associate Director or Director level
🔸 £65,000 – £80,000 base salary + bonus
🔸 28 days annual leave, 12% employer pension contribution, private healthcare.
🔸 London hybrid, ideally 1-2 days a week in office but flexibility here.

Impact and Economic Evaluation Director role with an independent agency who are very stable with some brilliant people and internal initiatives. The evaluation side of the business is growing rapidly, and this role will work closely with them on delivering statistical impact analysis, theory-driven evaluation, quasi-experimental methods and value-for-money assessments. It’s a full service research role with significant scope for influence.

Opportunity to sit alongside 1 of 2 policy teams:
– Environment, net zero, business, infrastructure policy OR
– Health, Wellbeing, Justice, Young people, Employment

This is a unique chance to grow and shape your own team, whilst remaining hands on, and make a tangible impact on social policy research in the UK.

Key responsibilities:

• Be a company expert in economic and impact evaluation. Lead and develop internal evaluation expertise.
• Lead economic evaluations (this is a hands on role)
• Business development and growing existing accounts.
• Team development longer term – grow an economic evaluation team. Shape your team and offering in the future.
• Present research findings to clients, policy markers and other stakeholders. Provide strategic insight.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in econometrics, UK based social market research and policy evaluation.

They are frequent finalists / winners in the MRS awards, including Best Place to Work and Best Agency of the Year. A great opportunity for an economic / impact evaluation specialist to join and build their career for future years to come.

🔸 Please apply for next steps. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and actively seek to embrace diversity across age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, religion, and sex.

For successful applicants, a recruitment consultant will be in touch via email to schedule a briefing call. We will explain the role in more detail and share the company details before creating a formal application.

Note: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.