Lead Evaluator (Freelance) - Notts Recovery Collective

Double Impact is a registered charity focused on supporting people recovering from substance use and gambling. We offer personal development, education, vocational training, and pathways to volunteering and employment.

Notts Recovery Collective - Lead Evaluator

Contract Type: Freelance over 5 years; Fee: £15,000; Location: Remote, with travel to Mansfield base as needed.

The Notts Recovery Collective is a new, unique 5 year Lottery funded project that will develop a Member led community of people in recovery, shaping an inclusive and sustainable future for recovery support in Nottinghamshire. Over five years, the Collective will engage people in recovery, train and support volunteers, and foster skills based and employment opportunities. It will grow a peer support group network across the county while embedding lived experience leadership at its core.

Lead Evaluator Role

We are seeking an individual with expertise in community led evaluation and social impact measurement. This role is a core strand of our project and will be vital in influencing systems change and delivering lasting social value.

Key Responsibilities

• Co produce and set up frameworks: support the co creation of outcome frameworks, ensuring they reflect what people truly value in recovery.
• Embed participatory tools: implement community led measurement and participatory evaluation tools across the project.
• Trial innovative data collection: lead on moving toward a "self directed" individual outcomes model where Collective members ask questions of each other.
• Capacity building: build a lasting legacy for evaluation capacity across the wider charity.
• Share learning: produce annual insight reports and share findings with regional forums, health stakeholders, and national networks like IRC UK and CLERO.
• Systems influence: use data and community insights to advocate for change and influence wider sector practice and policy.

Deliverables

• Clear evaluation framework and methodology; progress reports at the end of every year and any other deliverables requested by the funder.
• Wider sharing of learning across national events, with reasonable expenses claimed in addition to the fee.
• Involve Collective members in all structures and mechanisms developed to guide the project.

Payment

There is £15,000 set aside for the Evaluation Lead role, paid on a freelance basis over the 5 year project in three stages.

Additional Information

This is a landmark opportunity to help define how recovery is measured and sustained within communities and systems.

Double Impact embraces diversity and takes a proactive approach to equality in services and employment. Registered Charity No. .

Closing date for applications: 10am, 27th May 2026.