Evaluation and Impact Coordinator

About Into Film 

Into Film is the UK’s leading charity for film in education and the community. We provide screen industry careers information and advice, support young filmmakers, and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching. 

Into Film operates a hybrid working policy with offices in London, Cardiff, Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh and Salford. We are open to flexible working models wherever the role allows, including working compressed hours.  We also offer a range of staff benefits and perks which are detailed below.   

Role Summary 

Our ambition is to provide accurate reporting to our funders, supporters and education and sector partners and high-quality insights and data about the important role that film and screen culture plays in the educational and personal development and future career aspirations of young people aged 5-19. You will be key to developing and improving our reporting, research and evaluation work at Into Film.  

In addition, you will support the Head of Impact and Research as well as the Leadership team to ensure the effective reporting and evaluation of the impact of our programmes for our funders and other internal and external stakeholders.  

Working collaboratively and closely with colleagues across the organisation, this function supports and informs our programme design and development, our income generation and our policy and comms outputs.  

A full Job Brief can be found at the link below.

Person Specification: 

Minimum Requirements: 

• Experience in an impact and/or evaluation function 

• Qualitative data analysis expertise, through formal qualification or hands-on experience – must be comfortable with qualitative data management, analysis and reporting 

• Knowledge of the education, skills, creative industries or charity sector space 

• A collaborative colleague who will thrive in a dynamic, responsive cross-organisational role 

• An excellent writer, presenter and communicator who is willing to represent Into Film at in-person meetings and events  

• Experience supporting design and delivery of effective and inclusive evaluation methodologies to demonstrate impact and gather useful learning from programme participants  

• Demonstrable stakeholder management experience, working closely with colleagues and external research partners to support the delivery of multiple high-quality, robust, mixed-method evaluations 

• Experience of supporting colleagues to use evaluation data alongside the wider research and evidence base to shape programme design 

• Experience of providing data and support to external organisations who have been commissioned to provide specialised research  

• Up-to-date knowledge of the formal education sector in England and at least one other devolved nation 

Desirable: 

• Experience of theory-based evaluation, formative evaluation and implementation and process evaluation approaches 

• Familiarity with the Microsoft Office suite 

• A love and knowledge of film 

All employees regularly working with children and member data are required to undertake and maintain enhanced DBS clearance (and/or Access NI check or Disclosure Scotland check, depending on working location), acquired at Into Film’s expense; employment is dependent upon this. 

All Into Film staff work in a hybrid pattern, combining home working with attendance at their local and national office when required, along with some travel across the UK, as appropriate to the role.  

We are open to flexible working models wherever the role allows, including working compressed hours.  We also offer a range of staff benefits and perks, including:

• Annual Leave – 28 days (full time/pro-rata), including 3 days to cover office closure between Christmas and New Year, after 3 years rising annually to a maximum of 35 days

• Pension – matched up to 5% of salary (2% above statutory employer contribution) 

• Flexible working including compressed hours, job share etc. – all applications favourably considered, approval will be at the discretion of Into Film

• Enhanced parental/paternity/shared parental leave 

• Interest-free non-essential study loans 

• Interest-free bike/scooter/travelcard loan.

• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – 24/7 confidential wellbeing support, advice and guidance 

• Non-contributory health insurance cover (apart from employee tax contribution)  

• BenefitHub portal - offering discounts on healthcare, wellbeing products, and lifestyle products and services.