INSPIRING CHANGE AND POSITIVE CHOICE
Double Impact is a registered charity and not for profit organisation, established in 1998.
Our Mission is to provide a quality service, which promotes recovery and community integration for people who have experienced problematic drug and alcohol use or gambling. This is achieved by providing opportunities for personal development, recovery orientation, healthy choices, education, vocational training, and pathways to volunteering and employment.
By placing our service users’ needs at the heart of our ethos and their own recovery journey, we provide a uniquely holistic, flexible service. We believe that with the right support everybody can recover and that in recovery anything is possible.
We have an exciting opportunity - we are looking for a:
Notts Recovery Collective– Lead Evaluator
Contract Type: Freelance over 5 years
Fee: £15,000
Location: Remote, with travel to the Mansfield base at 18-19 St John St, Mansfield as necessary
Summary
The Notts Recovery Collective is a new, unique 5-year Lottery-funded project: it will develop a Member-led community of people in recovery, to shape a bold, inclusive, and sustainable future for recovery support in Nottinghamshire.
Over the next five years, the Collective will engage people in recovery, train and support volunteers, and foster skills-based and employment opportunities for people with lived experience. It will grow a peer support group network across the county while embedding lived experience leadership at its core, through a Members’ Committee and Steering Group.
We are creating a replicable model of grassroots governance that demonstrates how change happens from the ground up. Recognising the national relevance of our approach, we are recruiting a dedicated Evaluation Lead to ensure our community-led impact is measured, valued, and shared.
Lead Evaluator Role
We are seeking an individual with expertise in community-led evaluation and social impact measurement. This role is a core strand of our project—not an afterthought—and will be vital in influencing systems change and delivering lasting social value.
Key Responsibilities:
• Co-produce and set up Frameworks: Support the co-creation of outcome frameworks, ensuring they reflect what people truly value in recovery.
• Embed Participatory Tools: Implement community-led measurement and participatory evaluation tools across the project.
• Trial Innovative Data Collection: Lead on moving toward a "self-directed" individual outcomes model where Collective members ask questions of each other, rather than following traditional staff-led hierarchies.
• Capacity Building: Build a lasting legacy for evaluation capacity across the wider charity, not just within this specific project.
• Share Learning: Produce annual insight reports and share findings with regional forums, health stakeholders, and national networks like Inclusive Recovery Cities (IRC UK) and the College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (CLERO).
• Systems Influence: Use data and community insights to advocate for change and influence wider sector practice and policy.
Deliverables:
• Clear evaluation framework and methodology/ progress reports at end of every year and anything else which may be requested in line with the funder's requirements.
• This 5-year project is of national significance, therefore wider sharing of any learning is a core aspect of the evaluation. As such, participation in/contribution to any key sharing events would also be expected (any reasonable expenses relating to such events would be claimed in addition to the fee).
• We expect that the Evaluation Lead would involve Collective members as much as possible, through any structures/mechanisms/roles which are developed to guide the project.
Payment: There is £15k set aside for the Evaluation Lead role, paid on a freelance basis. The role will last over the 5 years of the project, with payment in 3 stages.
This is a landmark opportunity to help define how recovery is measured and sustained within communities and systems.
How to apply
Please submit your CV and outline of how you would approach this piece of work to eleanor@doubleimpact.org.uk. Please state your hourly/daily rate as part of this and how many days you would devote to the activity overall.
For an informal chat about the opportunity, please contact Eleanor Youdell on 07808 036514
Double Impact embraces diversity and takes a pro-active approach to equality in services and employment. Registered Charity No. 1139865
Closing Date for applications: 10am, 27th May 2026