Are you interested in using data to evaluate the impact of economic and technology development projects?
Do you have experience of working with data and improving data quality?
Do you want to work for the UK’s leading Technology, Innovation and Research Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy?
Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult is recruiting a MONITORING AND EVALUATION OFFICER – 12 month FTC. ORE Catapult is ambitious about unlocking the economic, social and environmental opportunities presented by offshore renewable energy. This role is critical to gathering robust evidence on the reach and impact of our wide range of interventions, enabling us to refine these to meet the needs of the sector, encourage support for our programms and projects, and be accountable to our key stakeholders.
This is an ideal role for candidates with an interest in policy evaluation, economic development and/or energy, and provides an excellent opportunity to learn more about innovation funding, project management and the UK’s exciting offshore renewables sector.
This role can be based within commutable distance of any of our sites and we are open to discussing flexible working arrangements at interview stage.
What will I do?
- Responsibilities of the Monitoring & Evaluation Officer shall include:
- Supporting business development and project delivery teams to provide good quality data and evidence on projects and partners
- Analysing and reporting on data quality
- Producing data queries, reports and visualisation to meet impact reporting and evaluation needs, working with the Impact Evaluation Manager and external economics specialists
- Proactively analysing and reporting results, trends and insights emerging from ORE Catapult’s data
- Identifying improvements to systems and processes for managing and reporting impact data, and integration of other data, working with the ICT colleagues to implement these
- Contributing to the production of various strategy, performance and impact plans and reports, including those for internal and external stakeholders, and for wider communication of the achievements of ORE Catapult and the partners we support.
What are we looking for?
ESSENTIAL:
- A degree, or equivalent experience, in a relevant area, including: Economics, Energy Policy, Public Policy, Data Science/ Analytics, Statistics
- Experience of, and aptitude for, working with quantitative and qualitative data (identifying, cleaning, assessing, analysing) to support reports or studies, with aptitude to visualise/ present data in compelling ways
- Strong general IT skills and experience; strong Excel and PowerPoint skills and experience of using databases is essential
- An analytical and methodical mindset, with good planning and problem-solving skills
- Innovative and creative thinking
- Self-motivated and pro-active, with tenacity to resolve issues and deliver results, and acquire new skills and knowledge
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Sound communication and relationship management skills, with the confidence to work collaboratively and respectfully across the Catapult
DESIRABLE:
- Ability to use Power Query and/or Power BI
- Experience of one or more programming language (eg R, Stata, Python)
- Experience of defining, applying and monitoring data quality standards
- Experience of working on projects relating to renewable energy, business acceleration, technology innovation, and/or with public funding.
What do we offer?
- Salary up to £35,000, depending on experience.
- Hybrid role with flexibility.
- Potential to extend the FTC should there be suitable work available.
- 38 days holidays including flexible bank holidays and option to buy 5 days extra.
- Pension, annual discretionary bonus, life assurance and health care scheme.
- Equal Opportunities Policy.
- Electric vehicle and bike2work salary sacrifice schemes.
- Open working environment with great potential for career progression and options for Learning and Development.
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders and a range of diversity groups and networks, including Inclusion and Diversity, STEM and LGBTQ+.
- Refer a Friend scheme paying £1500.
ORE Catapult values are Excellence, Collaboration, Innovation and Integrity.
ORE Catapult understands the importance of ensuring everyone can be heard, valued, is able to put forward ideas and feels part of something bigger. In a company like ours, that's always pushing boundaries on innovation, we believe diversity of our people is key to getting a range of ideas, points of view and different perspectives that ultimately ensures our success as a business. We value applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds or protected characteristics, e.g. gender, sexual orientation, race etc. and will make any reasonable adjustments required. We also understand that some candidates tend to apply only when they tick every box of the criteria stated on an advert. If you don’t tick every box but do feel you have what it takes to be successful in this role, we’d encourage you to still go ahead and make an application.
LARGER PRINT VERSION AVAILABLE IF REQUIRED.
If you would like to discuss access needs and/or reasonable adjustments that may be required, please contact people@ore.catapult.org.uk.
We have a very small agency spend so will not be contacting agencies yet. We will use our extensive network and online applications to try and fill this role over the next few months, before contacting any outside assistance.
