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Full-Time Evaluation Lead
Job Description
The opportunity
The Overview
Health Innovation South West is one of 15 Health Innovation Network (HIN) organisations in England. Our purpose is to work with a range of organisations including health and social care in finding, testing and implementing innovative practice and knowledge across the region.
Our team is working towards successfully delivering a number of portfolios that focus on national, regional and local projects. This involves extensive engagement with stakeholders and strong advocacy for the innovations that will benefit the population of the South West of England.
In a sector where ensuring efficacy and efficiency of new ways of working are important to ensure public funds are used in the best possible way, evaluation is an essential part of project management. Health Innovation South West supports the region through to spread evidence-based initiatives and we plan to learn as much as we can about our programmes along the way.
We’re looking for someone with strong experience in evaluation, ideally within health or care. You’ll be confident using both qualitative and quantitative methods, have excellent communication skills, and a collaborative, proactive mindset. Training and experience in either research or evaluation is essential.
This is a key role in an ambitious team working across local and national innovation programmes. We offer flexible hybrid working, a supportive learning culture, and the opportunity to shape how evaluation supports improvement across the South West. This role is suitable as a development opportunity for the right candidate, and support will be made available to you to develop into the role if needed.
If you’re driven by learning what works and want to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Role profile:
Key success factors
- Formal qualifications, directly relevant to evaluation and learning.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation methodology.
- Experience in the design and application of evaluation and evaluation findings directly to interventions, service design, and learning.
Responsibilities
- Lead on the design of evaluation plans and specifications, and to lead complex evaluation projects.
- Facilitate the development of logic models and theories of change.
- Advise and support colleagues to identify and monitor project benefits / success measures.
- Lead and advise on the development of measurement strategies for evaluations.
- Support the organisation and its members to better plan and deliver evaluation projects across the region.
- Manage contractual relationships with partners and external consultants to ensure delivery against agreed objectives.
- Manage and support colleagues and associates to deliver evaluations.
- Evaluate and advise on the potential impact of system wide implementation of innovation and improvement.
- Evaluate the outcomes, including any financial benefits and the strengths and weaknesses of implementation models.
- Devise and deliver actionable intelligence to the region as part of the Evaluation portfolio.
- Analyse, interpret, and present information at a senior level both internally and across member organisations.
- Provide timely, accurate and high quality progress updates, reports and briefings as required.
- Support the collection of national metrics.
- Support the collection of data where required.
- Carry out analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, as required.
- Write evaluation reports, learning pieces, blogs and presentations for stakeholders and management.
- Work with the Evaluation and Learning Director to develop the core Evaluation offer with the aim of generating revenue streams for Health Innovation South West. This could include developing or leading on bids, and stakeholder management.
- Line manage and work with Evaluation Researchers as needed, providing support to enable them to continue to develop in their role.
- Develop strong partnership working with a range of organisations and with your colleagues in the Health Innovation Networks to learn from the experiences of others in the delivery of specific projects.
- Find and use opportunities to share learning within and outside of Health Innovation South West.
- Be an ambassador for and positively promote Health Innovation South West, behave and model the company’s values.
Person specification:
Experience we are looking for
- Significant experience in a comparative role.
- Report writing and presentation skills.
- Science-based degree, or equivalent.
- Excellent qualitative and/or quantitative research skills.
- Working experience of planning and delivering evaluation in practice.
- Experience of organising and running. workshops
- Excellent networking skills with a relevant established network already in place.
- Good understanding of approaches to the spread and adoption of new programmes and innovations.
- Good understanding of the health and social care sector and current policy direction.
- Proactive, balances ‘analysis’ with ‘doing’.
- Good analytical skills and decision making.
- Excellent project management skills and experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build mutually beneficial relationships.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of evaluation methodology.
- Experience of working with stakeholders to develop a logic model and/or theory of change.
- Ability to work independently but also as part of a team.
- Ability to line manage and mentor/develop staff.
- Building and sustaining high quality standards.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic and changing environment.
- Excellent skills across all Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Willingness to travel (across the South West and nationally)
- Able to travel independently across the region and beyond
Experience and capabilities you will develop in the role
- Applying evaluation expertise and approaches to innovation in the health and care sector
- Developing evaluation approaches that are agile and adaptable to real world evaluation contexts.
- Influencing health systems at regional and national and international levels
Abilities and attributes
- Outcome focused – focuses on the change and impact they want to see and how to measure it.
- Collaborative – engages a diverse range of people and evidence sources to develop a deeper understanding of an issue.
- Leader – able to develop and support internal and external team members to develop their evaluation and data skills.
- Confident working in complexity – able to think about and analyse situations by recognising complexity, patterns and inter-relationships.
- Fair – believes that others’ views, experiences and knowledge are as important and valuable as their own.
- Enterprising – able to identify and lead on generating business opportunities relating to external evaluation work.
- Initiates change – does things differently, and creates new spaces and opportunities that empower others to do so too.
- Stakeholder management – the ability to earn and maintain the trust of internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
Reporting to:
Evaluation and Learning Director
How to Apply
Applications We are working hard to ensure we recruit great people and minimise unconscious bias in our selection process. To support us to do so we use the Applied recruitment platform, which anonymises applicants. Our process is progressive - alongside submitting a CV, you’ll also answer a few work-related questions. Our goal is to assess how you seek to understand problems, test ideas, and learn from experiences, ultimately to gain a better understanding of your relevant knowledge and skills. We appreciate that AI programs are capable of answering these questions, and we can easily find those responses independently. What we would value hearing is your perspective, articulated in your unique voice and expression. As part of our safeguarding approach, you may be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check in line with any project requirements. This would be discussed with you and would be arranged by Health Innovation South West if necessary. To apply for the role, please click here. The closing date for applications is 9am on 7 May 2025.12 total views, 0 today