Evaluation Director

At Young Sounds UK our mission is to help musically talented young people from low-income families fulfil their potential. We're seeking our first Evaluation Director to join a small, thriving organisation and lead our evaluation strategy. Working collaboratively with colleagues, you will generate insights that strengthen programme delivery, and how we understand and share our impact.

For full information on this role, including key responsibilities and person specification, please view the job pack.

The closing date for applications is Monday 14 July 2025 at 12 noon.

About Young Sounds UK

Young Sounds UK exists because musical talent is everywhere but opportunity isn t: family finances and other obstacles too often get in the way. We re here to change this in two key ways:

• We support young musicians from low-income families with funding and other help
• We support music education through training, advocacy and research.

Established in 1998 we work across genres and across the UK. Our four programme areas are:

• Discover: training teachers in how to spot young people s musical potential
• Connect: targeting and sustaining young people s emerging talent through strategic support
• Thrive: funding young talent UK wide through annual grants and tailor-made help for individual musicians
• Innovate: leading new thinking and action on talent development

Role overview

Young Sounds is a reflective organisation. We ve always invested time and effort in seeking out, understanding and demonstrating the difference our programmes are making. We believe in learning from experience. This is what we mean by evaluation.

We have recently secured funding to build on our evaluation work to date, and it is a priority for us to more fully embed evaluation throughout our work the Evaluation Director will be critical to us achieving this. The Evaluation Director is a new role and will lead the development and implementation of Young Sounds evaluation strategy, ensuring that our work is evidence-based and impactful.

Key areas of responsibility

• Evaluation strategy and organisational learning
• Programme evaluation
• Organisational capacity and culture
• Research and policy engagement
• Quality assurance and reporting