Independent Evaluator

It is easy to believe your own programme is working. It is harder to prove it. NextGen Education is committed to knowing the difference. The Independent Evaluator designs the measurement framework, tracks what is actually changing in classrooms, and produces the evidence that makes the results credible. Not just to the consortium, but to the wider education community.

What you will do

You are the person who turns ambition into evidence. You design impact indicators, build measurement frameworks, and track outcomes across partner schools in multiple European countries. Your work shapes how the programme improves and provides the foundation for everything the consortium shares externally.

Specifically, you will:

• Design the evaluation framework: what to measure, how, and when
• Develop impact indicators for student learning, teacher experience, and cross-border collaboration
• Collect and analyse data from pilot schools across the consortium
• Produce evaluation reports that are rigorous, readable, and actionable
• Provide formative feedback so the programme improves as it runs, not just at the end
• Ensure evaluation methods are ethical, GDPR-compliant, and appropriate for working with children

What you bring

You have a background in educational research, programme evaluation, or a related field. You know how to design studies that produce meaningful evidence without being so heavy that they disrupt the thing being studied. You understand that evaluation in a school context means working with real teachers, real schedules and real children, not lab conditions.

University researchers and experienced education consultants are both welcome. What matters is that you can design something rigorous that actually works in practice, across countries and school systems.

Why this matters

Most education programmes are evaluated after the fact, if at all. The evaluation report arrives months after the project ends. By then it is too late to change anything. NextGen Education takes a different approach. The evaluator works alongside the team from the beginning, providing real-time feedback that shapes how the programme develops.

This means your work has direct impact. When you find that something is not working in classrooms in one country, the team can adjust. When you find evidence that something is working better than expected, that insight travels to every partner school. You are not writing a report for a shelf. You are actively improving a programme while it runs.

And at the end, the evidence you produce is what makes the results shareable. Credible evaluation is what turns a successful pilot into something that can scale across Europe.

What this looks like in practice

You work as part of a distributed European team, but with significant independence. The evaluation must be genuinely independent to be credible, so you set the methodology and make the calls about what the data shows. You will collaborate closely with partner schools and the core team, but your conclusions are your own.

The role follows the Erasmus+ KA2 project timeline. The most intensive periods are around data collection milestones, but the formative evaluation approach means you are involved throughout. This is a role for someone who wants their research to make a direct, visible difference in how children learn.