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Learning and Insights Lead 

The Youth Endowment Fund • Full-time • London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom • from £56.60k / year • 7h ago

Reports to: Assistant Director of Change

Salary: £56,600

Location: Central London or remote

Contract: 2-year fixed term (Full -time)

Closing date: 9am, Friday 30th October 2026

Interview dates: Week commencing 16th November 2026

About the Youth Endowment Fund

We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.

Key responsibilities

Our Change team helps leaders who work to keep children safe from violence to put evidence into everyday practice. That includes leaders from youth justice services, police forces, schools and children’s services. We’re currently supporting more than 200 settings across England and Wales through a range of activities, from running workshops to longer-term support and coaching.

Working with so many services means we can learn a lot, fast. Our Learning Partner, an independent research organisation, gives us in-depth analysis of what’s working. Alongside that, we want to capture what our teams are seeing day to day, so we can adapt quickly and keep improving our support.

You’ll lead how we learn across our Change programmes. That means:

Getting the best from our Learning Partner, so their work is rigorous, useful and focused on what we need to know.
Helping our teams learn as they go, by building simple ways to capture what they’re seeing and act on it quickly.
Scoping, commissioning and contract managing other evaluations of our Change activities.

This isn’t an impact evaluation role. It’s about learning during delivery so we can improve it while it’s happening and help shape future delivery and includes,

To apply

Please send a CV, and a cover letter answering the specific questions below, please also complete the monitoring form by clicking the “Apply here” button by 9am, Friday 30th October 2026

When applying for this role, please ensure that your cover letter can answer, within a maximum of 1000 words, the following questions:

Tell us about your experience managing or commissioning an external research, evaluation or learning partner. How did you brief them well, hold them to quality standards, and get insight that was rigorous and useful?
Give us a clear example of when you’ve helped a team learn and adapt in real time, turning data, evidence or reflection into a change in how a programme was designed or delivered.

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