The details 

Hours/Shift pattern: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 

Salary: £45-60,000 dependent on experience 

Place of work: Exeter (with opportunity for some remote working) 

What you’ll do:

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. 

Responsibilities:

You will be required to manage a number of evaluation projects across Health Innovation South West. The main duties of which include, but are not limited to: 

• 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. 

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.

What you’ll need to succeed:

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.

Responsible to: Evaluation and Learning Director