Evaluation and Learning Manager

We are recruiting an Evaluation & Learning Manager, to support across our Impact on Urban Health programmes. This role is designed to enable Impact on Urban Health to achieve our aim of embedding learning at the heart of everything we do.

Team

Evaluation and learning

Salary

£50,000

Closing date

18 December 2023

Interview dates

  • First round: 9th January
  • Second round: 17th and 18th January

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About us

Impact on Urban Health is part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation. Our collective mission is to build the foundations of a healthier society.

As a member of the team, you have a real opportunity to shape our work and the impact we can have. This is fuelled by our desire to be more than the sum of our parts. We’re curious, we think big and we’re not afraid to take risks.

As part of our team, you will work alongside talented people from a mix of personal and professional backgrounds. We are a Living Wage employer and support flexible working, part-time roles and job shares. Though our ambitions are serious, this is a friendly place to work with lots of opportunities to meet and socialise with colleagues. We believe there is immense power in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.

There is more information on our working with us page, where you can find out:

  • how we approach recruitment
  • our team, culture and values
  • the benefits of working with us
  • and our approach to diversity, equity & inclusion, health & wellbeing, and learning & development.

Overview

We are recruiting an Evaluation & Learning Manager, to support evaluation and learning across our Impact on Urban Health programmes. This role is designed to enable Impact on Urban Health to achieve our aim of embedding learning at the heart of everything we do. This is achieved by providing expertise, setting standards, and supporting colleagues and partners to design evaluation & learning strategies.

At Impact on Urban Health, we are building a portfolio of programmes that demonstrate the power of long-term approaches to complex health issues in urban environments. We focus our efforts on the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, working in partnership with residents, local and national government, community and private sector partners to improve the health of local residents. By doing this, we aim to influence others in the UK and internationally to create better health. The programmes focus on children’s health and food, multiple long-term conditions, the health effects of air pollution and children’s mental health and are all at different stages of development.

Key Responsibilities

You will lead on providing technical evaluation and learning support to our Portfolio Managers and funded partners, ensuring that all evaluation and learning activity within funded projects meets the strategic objective of each programme.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • You can bring extensive experience of leading social research and evaluation design and implementation in a social sector context.
  • You have expertise in either, or both, quantitative and qualitative research methods.
  • You have expertise in adapting evaluation methods and approach to different contexts and types of intervention, and size/ scale of projects.
  • You can demonstrate your ability to take a structured approach to task implementation and managing priorities.
  • You are a collaborative team-player.

Benefits

  • Up to 12% employer pension contributions.
  • £1000 annual personal development budget.
  • Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance of £400.
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
  • Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
  • Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
  • Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.
  • Shower facilities and bike lock area.
  • Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays).
  • Subsidies for glasses.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.

At Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, we are dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our work. Cultivating a highly skilled and diverse workforce is pivotal to fulfilling our mission. We strongly encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Apply now

Thanks for your interest in working with us. We’re working hard to ensure we recruit great people and minimise unconscious bias in our selection process. To support this, we use the Pinpoint platform, which anonymises applicants.

Apply now Download the job description