- Role: Impact Manager
- Location: Portugal, remote or hybrid (Braga/São Miguel)
- Start date: ideally Feb 2025
- Duration: 12 months (possibility to renew)
- Remuneration and type of employment: 1500€ per month (base pay). Full-time fixed-term contract. Inspiring and flexible work culture with regular reviews. At least five extra days off, incl. your birthday. Meal ticket (10€/day). 13th and 14th salary payments in twelfths. Equivalent to an international gross salary of 2000€ per calendar month.
Role purpose
Evaluate and report the impact of our educational programmes, focusing on the perceptions and attitude changes of children participating in the programme.
Responsibilities
As Impact Manager, you’ll contribute to the organisation’s efforts to understand, monitor, and report the impact of our educational programmes promoting scientific literacy and capital. This involves:
- Refining a Theory of Change, developing study designs, and identifying useful measures
- Creating instruments and methodologies for data collection
- Implementing and analysing data of a randomized controlled trial
- Preparing presentations and reports on the impact of the programmes
- Contributing for the monitoring and improvement of the programmes based on the insight generated
- Analysing existing data and writing proposals for complementary research projects
- Staying informed about relevant literature, establishing partnerships with experts in the field, and representing the organization at specialized scientific conferences or other types of events
- Collaborating with various stakeholders (programme managers, teachers, scientists, policy makers, etc) to gather diverse perspectives on the project outcomes
- Support programmes implementation and the collection of data for impact reporting
- Contributing to Native’s communications and fundraising efforts
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) of programmes involving children
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Portuguese and English
- Self-motivated, responsible, and can-do attitude
- Comfortable working remotely and with cloud-based software
- Able to carry out both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis using specialised software (e.g. MAXQDA, R, SPSS, Excel) and statistics
- Willing to work collaboratively with the team and partners, including (but not limited) academic partners
- Excellent analytical, critical thinking and organisational skills
- Passionate about promoting fair and quality science education and for studying the impact on the beneficiaries of two unique and innovative educational programmes
- Excited to work with a vibrant and growing non-profit organisation
- Relevant work permit for Portugal (EU / if applicable)
About us
Native Scientists (www.nativescientists.org) is an award-winning pan-European non-profit organisation connecting underserved children and scientists. It exists to broaden children’s horizons, promoting scientific literacy and reducing inequalities. Based in London (UK) and Braga (Portugal) and operating in nine European countries, Native organises science outreach educational programmes and provides science communication and outreach training. In the classroom or beyond, Native works with a large network of scientists to boost children’s motivation for science and higher education.
How to apply
Interested?
Send us your CV and Motivation Letter (max. 2 pages) by email at [email protected] with the subject “Impact Manager – First and Last Name”. Only applicants who send CV and Motivation Letter will be considered.
Deadline: 15th January. Interviews will be held from the date of announcement (5th Dec) and until the 24th of January.