Disability Arts Online

Arts Council; Remote; GBP 25,000 - GBP 50,000; Part time

Job summary

A cultural organization is seeking an experienced Evaluator for its heritage project, 'Cripping Culture: a Journey into Disability Arts Heritage'. The role involves engaging with stakeholders to understand project impacts and producing evaluation reports. Candidates must have experience in evaluating heritage projects, knowledge of evaluation techniques, and the ability to produce accessible reports. This is a self-employed contract with remote work options.

Qualifications

• Must have experience designing and conducting evaluations for arts and heritage organizations.
• Ability to provide ethical evaluation respecting participants' privacy.
• Strong communication skills for presenting findings.

Responsibilities

• Design and conduct surveys using the Impact and Insight toolkit.
• Gather insights from the project team and stakeholders.
• Produce evaluation reports for project phases.
• Facilitate discussions for project improvements.

Skills

Experience in evaluating heritage projects

Knowledge of a range of evaluation techniques

Understanding of issues faced by disabled people

Experienced in producing accessible reports

Job description

Thu, 29 Jan 2026">published - Thu, 29 Jan 2026

Job Summary

Disability Arts Online (DAO) is looking for an Evaluator to support its landmark heritage project, ‘Cripping Culture: a Journey into Disability Arts Heritage’.

Job Description

Disability Arts Online (DAO) is looking for an Evaluator to support its landmark heritage project, 'Cripping Culture: a Journey into Disability Arts Heritage'. There is a maximum budget of £4,000, inclusive of VAT, to deliver all aspects of the project set out in the brief.

This is a freelance commission for an experienced evaluator to provide an external perspective to help us understand the value and impact of the Cripping Culture project. This will involve engagement with the project team, steering group, key stakeholders and the community to draw insights from the project processes and outputs.

Cripping Culture: A Journey into Disability Arts Heritage is delivered by DAO with key industry partners and funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund with the aim to share the story of the Disability Arts movement and preserve our shared heritage for future generations.

As an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded organisation DAO has well established evaluation practices for assessing the impact of our core work and learning how to improve what we do. We want to build on these through working with an external evaluator to cast an impartial, constructive and critical eye over this project as we embark on our first major heritage project.

Contract Conditions: Self-employed Contract

Region: UK

Work location: Remote

Job Requirements

• Experience in evaluating heritage projects
• Knowledge and experience of a range of evaluation techniques
• An understanding of the issues disabled people face
• Experienced at producing accessible and engaging reports
• Alignment with our organisational values of Connection, Empathy, Curiosity, Responsiveness, and Social Justice.

Job Responsibilities

• In liaison with the project team (including comms team), design and conduct surveys using the Impact and Insight toolkit at appropriate points in the project.
• Gather insights from the project team, steering group, and key stakeholders at the beginning and periodically throughout.
• Produce evaluation reports at the end of each of the three project phases.
• Contribute to project team learning sessions by presenting findings and facilitating discussions that lead to improvements throughout the project.

Evaluation Requirements

• The evaluation should be conducted ethically, respecting participants' privacy and confidentiality and adhering to relevant ethical guidelines.
• The evaluation format needs to be accessible to the people participating.
• The evaluation must be undertaken in consultation with the project steering group volunteers and in close collaboration with the project team.

Before applying for the role, please review the PDF Evaluator Brief or watch the captioned video. If you require the brief in a format that is not already provided, please let us know by emailing [e-mail] .

Letter / audio / video expression of interest (Max 2 pages of A4 or 5 minutes video / audio). This should outline your evaluation expertise, especially with regards to experience in designing, conducting, and delivering evaluations for arts and heritage organisations or similar community-based initiatives. Please also give an account of your evaluation methodology

A quote for the work (in any format e.g. spreadsheet) that sets out:
- Your proposed hourly/daily rate for the work (including VAT if applicable)
- The number of hours/days you expect the project to require overall
- A breakdown showing how your time is allocated across the deliverables

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