SE1161 National Evaluation Place Partner

This is for our £250m investment into Place Expansion across England. More information regarding Sport England's Place Expansion can be found here: https://www.sportengland.org/funds-and-campaigns/place-partnerships Sport England is committed to high quality, relevant, and rigorous, evaluation which is inclusive and accessible, integrated as part of the work, and facilitates learning and action to improve. We are looking for a National Evaluation and Learning Partner who can enable the places we directly invest in, or organisations who access supports from the Universal Offer, and for colleagues internally, to feel equipped, comfortable, and confident, in: 1. Whole-system and place-based approaches to physical activity 2. Ways of evaluating and evidencing whole-system and place-based approaches to physical activity, which correspond with key principles. 3. Using evaluation and learning to facilitate collective sense-making and action. 4. Understanding, explaining, and presenting progress and impact. We are also looking for a Place National Evaluation and Learning Partner who can: 1. Iteratively update and build on the knowledge and understanding of whole-systems and place-based approaches so far, through different types of data and sources of data. 2. Produce and facilitate sense-making of findings and learning in relation to key topics, specific outcome pathways, and in contributing to the four strategic aims of Uniting the Movement.