We are currently recruiting
Booked Up in Northern Ireland Impact Evaluation
Invitation to Tender
In the range of £7,000 is available for this evaluation.
Deadline for proposal: Friday 13 August 2010
Background Information
Booktrust is seeking proposals from appropriate agencies in Northern Ireland to conduct an independent evaluation of Booked Up.
Booked Up provides a free book to children starting secondary school (Year 8) to promote reading for pleasure. Children are invited to choose their free book from a list of 19 books, encouraging independent choice.
Booked Up was established in England in 2007 and is piloting delivery in Northern Ireland in 2010-11, delivering free books to circa 6,600 children in 65 schools across the region.
Booktrust is interested in measuring the impact and value of this pilot in Northern Ireland, with recommendations on how the programme materials could be improved and how opportunities for strategic links between schools, libraries and children could be increased.
Timescale
This invitation to tender is open until Friday 13 August 2010.
We aim to award the evaluation contract during the week beginning Monday 30 August 2010.
Delivery of books will take place in the autumn term 2010.
Please send proposals to Liz Canning, National Development Manager for Booktrust in Northern Ireland.
Click here to download the full invititation
Booktrust is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, marital status, race, colour, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age or disability and that all appointments are made solely on the basis of merit.
In order that our equality policy is effective we carry out regular monitoring of job applicants, and we would therefore ask you to complete the equality monitoring form. This information will be kept centrally within our secure HR department, completely separate from your recruitment application form and will be used for the sole purpose of compiling statistical information. The information will be separated from the application form and will not be given to the selection panel. The completed monitoring form will be destroyed once the information given in it has been collated.
Click here to download the equality monitoring form (Word .doc 43Kb)
