Impact And Evaluation Manager

Overview

Job Title:

Impact and Evaluation Manager

Reporting To:
Senior Impact and Insights Manager

Salary Range: £37,000 - £39,000

Contract Type:
Permanent

Location:

London/ Sheffield Hybrid Working

Working days/hours per week: 35 hours per week, Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm

Requirements:
We can only employ applicants who currently have the right to work in the UK. As part of our safer recruitment policy, we do ask questions regarding unspent criminal records.

Our Vision: A UK where “No good food goes to waste”. The Felix Project and Fare Share have recently merged to form the UK's largest food redistribution charity. Its vision is a UK where good food is never wasted, and nobody goes hungry. The organisation rescues high quality edible surplus food, from across the food industry and gets it to over 8,000 organisations across the UK who are working to strengthen communities and improve lives.

The charity manages seven depots across London, Suffolk, Merseyside and Hampshire and works with 16 network partners who operate a further 26 regional depots across the UK. Over the next year our ambition is to rescue enough food nationally to provide nearly 200 million meals, turning an environmental problem into social good with measurable impact for people, planet, and the economy.

Purpose of the Job

The Impact and Evaluation Manager plays a key role in ensuring (FELIX) can robustly measure, evaluate and communicate the social and environmental impact of its work. The role supports an evidence-based culture across the organisation, embedding evaluation and learning into service development and delivery.

Working with colleagues across (FELIX) and its network, you will lead qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation projects, generating insights that inform service improvement, fundraising and public affairs. You will ensure that impact evidence is translated into clear, engaging outputs for internal and external audiences, helping to build compelling narratives about the difference Fare Share makes. Ultimately, this work supports Fare Share’s mission to deliver more food to charities and community groups across the UK.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the development and ongoing refinement of Fare Share’s Theory of Change and Impact & Evaluation frameworks, ensuring they remain relevant and are embedded in impact measurement and evaluation activity
• Design and deliver impact measurement tools and evaluation projects that generate robust evidence on Fare Share’s social and environmental impact, including surveys, research studies and external evaluations.
• Analyse and interpret impact data and research findings, producing clear, accessible reports and insights for internal and external stakeholders, including producing the Annual Impact Report and Internal Stats House.
• Work collaboratively across Fare Share teams and with Regional Partners to implement impact measurement approaches, support evidence-informed decision making, and strengthen the organisation’s approach to measuring and communicating impact.
• Manage research activity and partnerships, including coordinating external evaluations, engaging academic partners, supporting evidence for policy and public affairs work, and line managing the Impact and Insights Officer.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential

• 1-3 years experience working in impact, evaluation, research or insights roles, supporting the design and delivery of evaluation or research projects.
• Knowledge of impact measurement and evaluation approaches, including Theory of Change, logic models, and qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Experience analysing and interpreting data and research, translating findings into clear, visually engaging insights for a range of audiences.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing reports and presenting insights to internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating cross-departmentally and engaging stakeholders to design and implement research or impact measurement activities.
• Experience managing projects and delivering work to deadlines, ideally within a busy organisational environment.
• People management or supervisory…