Deputy Director For Research And Evaluation

Position description

Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation
An exciting opportunity to join the friendly, dynamic, multi-disciplinary team at the CSA Centre as our new Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation.

Join the CSA Centre team
Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation
Salary: £66,561 – £91,069 plus Office at Home Allowance – £312 per annum
Closing Date: 9th December 2025
We are looking for an experienced researcher to take up this key leadership role at the CSA Centre.
As Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation, you will help us raise awareness of the scale and nature of sexual abuse and to drive evidence-informed improvements in policy and practice. This is important work – the CSA Centre conservatively estimates that one in ten children will experience some form of child sexual abuse before age of 16, and our ambitious programme seeks to improve the knowledge, skills and confidence of professional in identifying and responding to child sexual abuse. We have already made great progress, but there is much more to be done – and we need your leadership to help us do it!

Leading a highly skilled and experienced team, the Deputy Director will oversee the development of our research plans and evaluation programmes, helping us to ensure that our publications, practice resources and policy and communications activity are robust, evidence-informed and accessible to a wide audience, driving real change in the response to child sexual abuse across England and Wales.

As a member of the CSA Centre’s Senior Management Team, you will have a leadership role across our multi-agency, multi-disciplinary team, enabling you to draw on expertise from a wide range of different professional backgrounds.

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