StoryFutures Impact & Evaluation Lead

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StoryFutures
Location:  Egham
Salary:  £39,233 per annum - including London Allowance
This is the expected starting salary for this post however appointment at a higher point may be made for candidates who demonstrate exceptional skills and experience relevant to the role.
Post Type:  Full Time
Closing Date:  23.59 hours GMT on Monday 22 January 2024
Reference:  1223-528

Full-Time, Permanent 

This is a fabulous opportunity to shape the story of how creative industries innovate in future technologies, from generative AI to immersive experiences to Realtime networked interaction. This role will devise and implement an impact and evaluation framework for capturing. You will be working with world-leading creative companies – from Pinewood to BT to disguise to thousands of cutting-edge UK SMEs – bringing excellent communication and analysis skills to help turn innovation into impact: from economic and public value through to audience experience and company growth. 

The Impact & Evaluation Lead is at the heart of where creative industries, research and R&D funding come together – playing a key role in developing frameworks for understanding the outcomes and benefits of collaboration, helping to broker relationships and briefing government, industry and a wide-array of stakeholders on the impact CoSTAR will have on the creative sector. 

You will work in a creative, inclusive and dynamic environment based in the StoryFutures Unit at Royal Holloway, University of London where you will work with the leadership team to develop impact and evaluation strategy and be responsible for day to day implementation and delivery of that framework.

About the National R&D Lab:  CoSTAR National Lab for R&D in Creative Technology is the largest ever investment in creative industries R&D in UK history: a £51.1m programme led by Royal Holloway, University of London to develop a National R&D Lab for creative technologies to ensure the UK’s screen and performance industries have the and innovation infrastructure to compete globally. See more here . 

The National R&D Lab will place Equality, Diversity and Sustainability at the heart of all we do: from our team culture to the research programmes we run, to how we collaborate with partners. 

What You Will Be Doing: 

• Create and maintain key project documentation 
• Strategic planning and collaborative problem solving. 
• Managing and delivering reports to funders, industry and government.
• Develop relationships with creative industries and the new CoSTAR network. 

You should apply if you:

• Love working with quantitative and/or qualitative methods to bring stories of impact to life.  
• Have a proven track record of working in an evaluation and/or policy context, such as writing policy briefings/white papers, managing data 
• Have excellent communication skills. 
• Have a positive ‘can do’ attitude, work well in a team, pro-active and self-confident.  Be used to working under high levels of independence and responsibility.

This is a full time, permanent role available from 1st March 2024. This post is based in Egham, Surrey, but with the expectation of significant working time at the National Lab which is being built in the region and some national travel expected. The successful applicant will spend significant time liaising with partners across the UK. An attractive relocation package is available. 

Candidates should upload an example of their previous impact and evaluation work, whether as a team or an individual (e.g. a policy briefing document; a project report; an insights paper for a client etc).  

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact [email protected]  

The RHUL Recruitment Team can be contacted with queries by email at: [email protected] or via telephone on: +44 (0)1784 41 4241.

Please quote the reference: 1223-528

Closing Date:  23:59, 22nd January 2024

Interviews: In person at Egham on 31 January 2024. 

Shortlisted candidates will be required to undertake a test of their impact and evaluation skills as part of the interview process. 

Please note that it will not be possible for the University to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for successful candidates as this role does not fall into one of the standard occupational codes deemed eligible for sponsorship by UK Visas and Immigration. Successful candidates will therefore need to be eligible to work in the UK or have limited leave to remain in the UK and associated right to work for the duration of their employment with the University, in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. 

The university has adopted hybrid working for some roles therefore some remote working may be possible for this role.

Royal Holloway is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), and encourages applications from all people regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, parental status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or trans status or history. More information on our structures and initiatives around EDI, including information on staff diversity networks, can be found on our Equality and Diversity Intranet page .