HLF Skills for the Future Programme: Nurturing Nature Conservation Skills using NNRs - External Evaluation Specialist

Tender description

The contract will commence April 2015 and end 30th July 2017 subject to adherence to Natural England’s Terms and Conditions. The contract will be drafted as a one year contract with the option to extend for a further 2 years. This tender is for the following: I. Support development of a final version of the evaluation framework following discussion with key learning providers and the External Steering Group and so that it meets the evaluation objectives; II. Ensure that qualitative and quantitative evaluation tools are developed appropriately to meet the evaluation objectives; III. Establish an efficient way to code and analyse the information being delivered by these tools; IV. Review the evaluation findings at an agreed frequency and highlight any issues for consideration by the Project in terms of ongoing delivery or evaluation; V. Agree the structure and approach to the final evaluation report VI. Provide technical assurance to a final end of project evaluation report. These are elements of a Heritage Lottery Fund Skills for the Future project focussing on nature conservation skills on National Nature Reserves, with locations across England.