Senior Analytical Manager

Senior Analytical Manager - Analysis and Evaluation Team

Salary : £84,735 plus excellent benefits

Contract type : Permanent, full-time or part-time

Hours per week : 37.5 hours per week.

All staff are required to work in person for a minimum of two days per week, in line with our hybrid working policy. However, for this role we are also open to discuss condensed / part-time / job shares. The post-holder may be required to undertake some work outside normal working hours.

About the Health Foundation

Health is our most precious asset. Good health enables us to live happy, fulfilling lives, fuels our prosperity and helps build a stronger society. Yet good health remains out of reach for too many people in the UK, and health and care services are struggling to provide access to timely, high-quality care.

The Health Foundation is an independent charitable organisation with a mission to build a healthier UK. We work to achieve this by generating high quality research and analysis; developing practical solutions to the biggest problems in health and health services; engaging, convening and building coalitions to build understanding, inform debate and drive action; and developing the long-term capability needed to transform health and care.

More about us

Our values

We expect everyone who works with us to be committed to our values and to share our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation. Our values are impact, evidence, integrity, and collaboration. You can read more about them in our five-year strategy. We also expect everyone to share our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation and to help deliver our EDI strategy .

About the role

We have vacancies for two Senior Analytical Manager roles in the Analysis and Evaluation team. One postholder will provide specialist expertise in causal evaluation and lead evaluation-focused work, while the other will be a senior analytical lead, overseeing projects that draw on a range of analytical approaches and methods. Both postholders will provide analytical leadership across a range of projects and lead one of our analytical programmes of work in health and health care, currently public health-led prevention and primary and community care.

You will work closely with the other senior analytical managers, and senior staff across the Directorate and wider Foundation. You will be responsible for leading a team of analysts, developing and maintaining an ambitious programme of analytical work, and ensuring that the team make a sizeable contribution to the success of one or more thematic programmes. Key responsibilities are as follows:

• Work with senior colleagues across the Analysis directorate, the wider Foundation and external collaborators to develop an impactful, rigorous and respected programme of innovative analytical research that helps the Health Foundation’s strategic programmes achieve their objectives.

• Lead a team of analysts, ensuring that the team is well led and motivated, shares learning across projects, and is supported and receives appropriate learning and development opportunities.

• Provide direction and day-to-day oversight of a varied analytical work programme. This includes ensuring projects are delivered on time and managing budgets for the work programme where appropriate. This programme should include responsive, medium, and longer-term work to deliver timely, policy relevant insight that contributes to the Foundation’s pillars and strategic priorities.

• Have responsibility for analytical research conducted across the team, including for ensuring it is independent, rigorous and delivered to high-quality standards.

• Work with colleagues to communicate analytical research to a wide range of stakeholders to achieve impact through Health Foundation briefings, long reads, peer reviewed journals, at conferences and through other media as relevant.

• Build and maintain a professional network with colleagues across analytical and data science communities in government departments, national arm’s length bodies and agencies, academia, and across civil society. Share best practice with colleagues, external partners, stakeholders and national initiatives.

• Act as a spokesperson for the Foundation to help our analysis have impact, including in the media, where required, and as a representative of the Foundation at external events.

How to apply

Our priority is to find the right individual for each opportunity. We are dedicated to building an inclusive workplace that values diversity and we invite you to find out more.

You can find the job description for this role here . If you would like to apply, please submit your CV, and a supporting statement that answers the following application questions:

1. Why are you well suited to this role? What relevant analytical expertise, knowledge and experience would you bring? Note: in your answer, please indicate whether you have a preference for the role specialising in evaluation or the broader analytical role. (max. 300 words)

2. Tell us about a time when you developed and delivered an analytical work programme in response to strategic priorities and competing demands. What were the priorities and constraints? How did you decide what to focus on, what to deprioritise or stop, and how did you work with stakeholders to make those decisions? Please describe your own role, the judgements you made and the outcome. (max. 300 words)

3. Tell us about an analytical project you have led that has resulted in meaningful change or impact. Please give a specific example of how you used causal evaluation or another advanced analytical method to address the problem, explaining the approach you took and why. What was your personal contribution to shaping the analytical approach and influencing how the findings were used, and what did you learn about your leadership approach. (max. 300 words)

Our commitment to equality, inclusion and diversity

We are committed to an inclusive hiring process, where every candidate has the chance to showcase their unique skills and experience in an accessible and supported environment, to ensure that we can make the best appointment for each opportunity on merit.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage those from underrepresented groups in this field to apply to us. We have identified three key areas to improving diversity. Our aim to achieve a more balanced representation across our organisation, with a particular focus on increasing the number of women in leadership, enhancing the representation of people from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds and welcoming more people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we strongly encourage applications from these groups.

Apply to join our team and let's work towards building a more diverse and inclusive workplace together.

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Closing date : Wednesday 21 October 2026 at 23:59.