Freelance evaluator opportunity

Egham Museum is looking to appoint a freelance evaluator to be a critical friend that can offer guidance and advice to our team on our evaluation processes as part of our National Lottery Heritage fund supported ‘Our Museum: Reconnecting Collections and Community’ project. 

Part collections relocation and rationalisation, part community engagement, our team have hosted a series of workshops over the past 18 months that were designed with community partners to help the Museum better understand what its collection means to residents today, what voices or experiences are currently missing from our collection, and how we might address these gaps and make the Museum’s collection more representative and inclusive in the future. We have also been consulting with the community on how our museum forward plan can better cater for their priorities. 

As we reach the final stages of our project, we are looking to work with an experienced evaluator to help our team evaluate our progress so far and effectively embed learning lesions into the last stages of our community engagement. We also would like an evaluator to offer advice on compiling our final evaluation report for our project funder using the data we have collected so far from both the community engagement and rationalisation strands of our project, and helping us to most effectively use this data to draw conclusions. 

Project dates:	Aug-Nov 2026
Amount:	£1200
Closing date:	3 August 2026
Responsible to:	Curator

The evaluator for the period of this project will:

• Use existing museum data, visitor profiling & segmentation tools and audience evaluation frameworks to track our journey to date and identify learning lessons and legacies; 
• Suggest evaluation tools, processes and methods in order to track ongoing progress of our community consultation work using both quantitative and qualitative data;
• Suggest exciting and engaging ways in which to present our information;
• provide training and support to staff and volunteers on effective data capture and measuring impact;
• offer the Curator and Trustees advice and suggestions for continuing the process after the end of this project;
• Provide guidance to staff for writing an end-of-project report for submission to our funders and to use for publicity and advocacy.

Timescale 

• August 2026– we will share with you project objectives, data collected and evaluation so far in order for you to review and inform your preparation for advisory work and training
• September 2026 – time spent with the team offering data collection and evaluation method advice ahead of final community engagement events in October. Also working with the team to review methods so far and offer guidance on final stages of the project. 
• October 2026 – time spent with team offering advice on producing evaluation report 

Method of work

We do not wish to be prescriptive in terms of methodology but it will need to take into account the key milestones for the remainder of the project.  The methodology will be agreed at the start of the contract with Egham Museum. 

The contract is offered on a freelance basis. We would prefer for hours to be worked onsite at Egham Museum, but we are open to hybrid working with some hours worked remotely. 

There is shared office space available at the museum for the Evaluator to make use of when needed (subject to agreeing appropriate times with Egham Museum team members).  

Please email your proposal, with an outline of your cost, by 3 August 2026, 5pm, to Becky Tabrar, Curator, curator@eghammuseum.org.  

Please note: submitted documentation should not exceed c.2,000 words (4 pages of A4, excluding necessary annexes).  Electronic applications only please.

Please find the full role description below.