4 Evaluation Specialist jobs in the United Kingdom

STEM Raters for GenAI Data

Role Overview

As a STEM Rater for (Maths/Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Coding/Finance), you will be a crucial contributor to shaping the "brain" of our AI. Working closely with the STEM Lead and your team, your primary responsibility will be to meticulously create, review, and refine high-quality data. This involves evaluating AI responses for accuracy, clarity, and pedagogical effectiveness, ensuring they are insightful, well-structured, and tailored to the learner's level. You will apply your deep subject matter expertise to provide critical feedback that directly enhances the AI's ability to teach millions at scale through technology.

I. Core Responsibilities

1. High-Quality Data Creation & Curation:

• Meticulously create and refine high-quality data, including detailed solutions, explanations, and step-by-step derivations for STEM problems across various difficulty levels.
• Ensure all content adheres strictly to established quality rubrics, style guides, and pedagogical standards, focusing on accuracy, clarity, and effectiveness.
• Integrate subject matter expertise to provide comprehensive and insightful explanations that anticipate common student misconceptions.

1. AI Response Evaluation & Feedback:

• Rigorously evaluate AI-generated responses for correctness, coherence, pedagogical soundness, and adherence to specific instructions.
• Provide clear, constructive, and actionable feedback to the AI model, identifying errors, inaccuracies, or areas for improvement in its reasoning and presentation.
• Participate in creating "ground truth" solutions and evaluation datasets to benchmark AI model performance.

1. Subject Matter Expertise Application:

• Apply deep knowledge in (Maths/Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Coding/Finance) to assess complex problems, verify solutions, and develop alternative approaches.
• Stay updated with advancements and common curriculum standards in your respective STEM field to ensure content relevance and accuracy.

1. Collaboration & Workflow Adherence:

• Work closely with the STEM Lead and fellow raters to ensure consistency in data creation and evaluation processes.
• Adhere to established workflows, deadlines, and project requirements set by the STEM Lead.
• Communicate clearly about challenges encountered in data creation or AI evaluation to facilitate timely resolution.

II. Required Qualifications & Experience

• Educational Background: A Master's degree (M.Sc./M.Tech) in (Maths/Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Coding/Finance) or a closely related field from a premier Tier-1institution. A Ph.D. is a plus.
• Deep Subject Expertise: Demonstrable, strong expertise across a wide range of topics within your subject.
• Teaching/Content Creation Experience: Proven experience (7+ years) in teaching, tutoring, content writing, or academic research in your specialized STEM field. Experience with competitive exam preparation is highly valued.
• Exceptional Communication Skills: Excellent written communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly, concisely, and accurately.

III. Preferred Qualifications (The "Ideal" Candidate)

• Experience with AI/ML Feedback: Familiarity with providing structured feedback for AI models or large language models.

IV. Personal Attributes & Soft Skills

• Meticulous & Detail-Oriented: An unwavering commitment to accuracy, a keen eye for minute details, and a high standard for quality.
• Pedagogical Aptitude: A natural ability to explain concepts in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step manner, considering different learning styles.
• Analytical & Critical Thinker: Capable of critically evaluating information, identifying logical flaws, and applying analytical reasoning to solve problems.
• Organized, Efficient & Proactive: Able to manage time effectively, prioritize tasks, and consistently meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Be a proactive self starter who can problem solve to resolve roadblocks rather than (largely) relying on external support
• Collaborative & Dynamic: Works well in a team setting, is open to receiving and incorporating feedback, and is dedicated to continuous improvement. Comfortably to execute in a continuously changing environment
• Tech-Savvy: Be extremely comfortable using Google Workspace and collaborate real-time with other stakeholders to deliver the end-goal (data points). Highly amenable to working with new tools and platforms for content creation and AI interaction.

Steer Economic Development is seeking an evaluation specialist to join our team of high-performing economic development consultants.

You will work on a range of different projects, for national, regional and local public sector clients, including process and impact evaluations, evaluation plans and evaluation scoping studies.

Your skillset will include quantitative and qualitative research techniques, as well as familiarity with a range of evaluation techniques such theory-based methods and counterfactual design.

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Leadership of Transport Evaluation Portfolio

• Provide strategic leadership for the consultancy’s transport evaluation portfolio, positioning Steer as a recognised leader in Monitoring and Evaluation for transport and mobility.
• Build on the Steer’s growing credentials in the sector, identifying opportunities to expand influence and impact with key clients.
• Leverage expertise across the wider organisation to deliver integrated, cross-cutting evaluation offers.
• Act as senior representative of the firm in the transport evaluation field, engaging with policy-makers, academics, and professional networks.

Technical Leadership

• Lead the design and implementation of complex evaluations in the transport sector, ensuring methodological rigour and relevance.
• Provide technical direction on evaluation methodologies.
• Ensure evaluations integrate sector-specific dimensions such as modal shift, accessibility, safety, equity, climate and environmental impacts, and cost-benefit analysis.
• Act as a thought leader, producing and disseminating insights, learning products, and guidance on evaluation approaches in the transport domain.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as senior advisor to clients including government departments and public sector bodies.
• Build and maintain trusted long-term relationships with senior stakeholders, providing evidence-based advice to inform strategic decisions in transport policy and programming.

• Represent Steer at conferences, industry panels, and thought-leadership events.

Business Development & Growth

• Drive growth of the transport evaluation portfolio through successful leadership of bids and proposals.
• Identify and pursue new opportunities, cultivating partnerships and alliances that strengthen Steer’s market position.
• Contribute to Steer-wide strategic planning, helping shape the consultancy’s long-term vision for monitoring and evaluation.

Team Leadership & Capacity Development

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams, ensuring delivery of high-quality outputs on time and within budget.
• Mentor and coach colleagues at all levels, building in-house expertise in monitoring and evaluation.
• Work with the senior team to promote a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and learning across the practice.

Requirements

Education & Qualifications

• Degree in social science subject or equivalent experience in a related discipline

Experience

• 10+ years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation, with significant focus on transport and infrastructure programmes.
• Proven track record of leading the design and delivery of large, complex transport evaluations at the regional and national level covering net zero, innovation, infrastructure, or devolved funding.
• Demonstrated expertise across a range of evaluation methodologies, including theory-based, experimental, and mixed-methods approaches.
• Experience in integrating sector-specific issues into evaluations, such as climate impacts, accessibility, safety, behaviour change, and equity.
• Strong portfolio of work with governments or other public sector organisations in the transport space.
• Evidence of thought leadership (e.g. publications, conference presentations, advisory roles).
• Experience winning and managing high-value contracts, and growing sector portfolios.

Skills & Attributes

• Recognised technical authority in evaluation methods and application to transport.
• Strategic leadership skills with ability to build and grow a portfolio area.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels.
• Strong project and people management abilities, including mentoring and developing teams.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with ability to present complex findings clearly to diverse audiences.

Benefits

We believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine. As an employee-owned company means that our team are dedicated and passionate about what they do, and that’s the reason why we are at the forefront of our industry.

Steer has 5 offices in the UK: London, Leeds, Hemel Hempstead, Manchester and Birmingham.

Steer is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome. If you require an accommodation, now or throughout your employment, please let us know.

We offer a competitive benefits package including:

• Private medical insurance and health screening
• Life assurance and group income protection
• Company pension scheme
• EAP and mental health first aiders
• 25 days annual leave and ability to buy and sell annual leave days,
• Season Ticket Loan/ Cycle to Work,
• Group Share Incentive Plan,
• Up to 5 days for volunteering activities
• Discretionary bonus scheme based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).

Compensation

Steer is committed to ensuring that all its employees are compensated a fair, liveable wage. All initial compensation, regardless of location, may be subject to change as skills, abilities, internal equity and geographic location are taken into account.

In addition to base salary, all employees will be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus. Please review the benefits section for more information on total reward.

Steer reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional compensation.

Work Environment

All Steer employees seeking a full-time opportunity are encouraged to spend 60% of their time either in the office or on-site with clients. An employee’s typical work week consists of 37.5 hours (Hours, expectations, and exemption status will be adjusted for any applicant seeking a part-time opportunity.)

We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description.

Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.

Ready to apply?  Just complete our brief online application form and attach your CV and covering letter.

Steer Economic Development is seeking an evaluation specialist to join our team of high-performing economic development consultants.

You will work on a range of different projects, for national, regional and local public sector clients, including process and impact evaluations, evaluation plans and evaluation scoping studies.

Your skillset will include quantitative and qualitative research techniques, as well as familiarity with a range of evaluation techniques such theory-based methods and counterfactual design.

You will be well versed in HMT Magenta Book and Green Book best practice, and, ideally, will have experience working on evaluations of relevant policy interventions such as in the business support, innovation, Net Zero and/or regeneration domains.

As a Principal Consultant at Steer Economic Development, you will:

• Solve important and varied problems – each week can address a diverse set of intellectual challenges: e.g. How can we help traditional manufacturing businesses adopt AI? How successful has a new initiative been in delivering carbon savings? What difference has a public agency made to a local economy?  Our clients will ask for your help answering questions like these, and many more.
• Build a work portfolio you are passionate about – working with the rest of the team, you will have the freedom to develop relationships and win work to suit your skills and interests. We work across a broad range of agendas, and you will have the autonomy to shape and deliver projects in fields that you feel most passionate about. 
• Be recognised and rewarded for your achievements – we are an employee-owned company and we rely on each other for success. We offer a highly competitive renumeration package and flexible benefits.  Our team meets every week to discuss new opportunities, review performance and celebrate each other’s achievements.
• Grow your career alongside our growing business – we are ambitious. You should be too.

• Primary research – for example, you could be interviewing business leaders, analysing client-owned or public data, building maps/data visualisations, or designing telephone surveys.
• Winning over clients – you will build rapport with clients, spending time with them discussing project methodologies, sharing findings, and planning next steps.
• Project management – you will co-ordinate project teams, be supported by passionate team members and work alongside leading experts in delivering high profile, influential evaluation outputs
• Writing first-class reports – our research is frequently published by our clients and you will play a vital role in ensuring our reports are communicated brilliantly, and of the highest quality.
• Winning new work – you will support business development including the preparation of proposals setting  out a clear approach and method for how we will successfully delivery new projects.
• Developing staff – you will help to turn our ambitious graduates and consulting team into highly-skilled professionals. You will have line-management responsibilities, and more broadly you will help to develop all of our junior staff through finding opportunities for stretching work, offering advice and giving constructive feedback.
• Developing your own skills – you will fine-tune your consultancy skills through our L&D programmes, internal/external networking and the mentorship of our highly experienced industry experts.

Requirements

• Experience working on process and impact evaluation, ideally in one or more of our key subject areas (net zero, innovation & enterprise, regeneration & housing, transport, strategic infrastructure or skills)
• 5+ years’ experience, ideally in the public sector, consulting industry or relevant private sector experience.
• A degree (2:1 or higher), preferably in Economics or a social science subject.
• Ideally relevant professional membership

Benefits

We believe in empowering our people and giving them the opportunities to shine. As an employee-owned company means that our team are dedicated and passionate about what they do, and that’s the reason why we are at the forefront of our industry.

Steer has 5 offices in the UK: London, Leeds, Hemel Hempstead, Manchester and Birmingham.

Steer is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome. If you require an accommodation, now or throughout your employment, please let us know.

We offer a competitive benefits package including:

• Private medical insurance and health screening
• Life assurance and group income protection
• Company pension scheme
• EAP and mental health first aiders
• 25 days annual leave and ability to buy and sell annual leave days,
• Season Ticket Loan/ Cycle to Work,
• Group Share Incentive Plan,
• Up to 5 days for volunteering activities
• Discretionary bonus scheme based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).

Compensation

Steer is committed to ensuring that all its employees are compensated a fair, liveable wage. All initial compensation, regardless of location, may be subject to change as skills, abilities, internal equity and geographic location are taken into account.

In addition to base salary, all employees will be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus. Please review the benefits section for more information on total reward.

Steer reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional compensation.

Work Environment

All Steer employees seeking a full-time opportunity are encouraged to spend 60% of their time either in the office or on-site with clients. An employee’s typical work week consists of 37.5 hours (Hours, expectations, and exemption status will be adjusted for any applicant seeking a part-time opportunity.)

We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description.

Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.

Ready to apply?  Just complete our brief online application form and attach your CV and covering letter.