Evaluation Researcher

6 months ago

Exeter, United Kingdom Health Innovation South West Full time

These roles are offered working in a hybrid environment, with an expectation of 1-2 days a week in the office.

**What you’ll do**:
Within the Health Innovation South West, we have a dedicated team of Evaluation and Learning specialists who undertake a range of bespoke evaluation and learning projects. The evaluation work we undertake varies in size, scope and complexity, with a range of local, regional and national projects.

Working as a mixed-method Evaluation Researcher within our organisation, you will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced and applied context where you can test and understand innovative approaches in real-world settings. You will get to work alongside cutting-edge innovators in health and care systems, to understand impact.

You will work across a range of projects committed to developing, testing and evaluating new innovations, interventions or approaches using quantitative and qualitative approaches. This provides the exciting challenge of developing evaluation approaches to suit the context and to see the impact of your work being used to inform and improve delivery. Often the findings of our evaluations are used to understand and advise on the potential for scaling and rolling out promising new solutions and approaches more widely.

**Responsibilities**:
The main purpose of the role is to provide resource and expertise in evaluation design, fieldwork, analysis and reporting. Supervised by an Evaluation Lead, this role will be working as part of matrix-based teams, supporting a wide range of projects across different areas of our organisation. The main duties for the role will include, but are not limited to:

- Supporting evaluation project planning and design,
- Carrying out desk research and literature reviews,
- Undertaking evaluation fieldwork, including:

- Undertaking secondary data analysis,
- Developing and running surveys/questionnaires,
- Facilitating rapid evaluation methods such as online data collection,
- Undertaking depth interviews,
- Facilitating focus group sessions,
- Collating, analysing and reporting on health economics data.
- Carrying out qualitative and quantitative data analysis. This could involve:

- Undertaking qualitative data analysis organising, coding and theming the data as relevant.
- Organising, cleaning, data matching and running statistical analyses as appropriate to the dataset under investigation.
- Undertaking analysis and reporting on health economic data.
- Analysing benefits realisation and outcomes data.
- Use of data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau etc.
- Undertaking dissemination activities which include activities such as writing evaluation reports, learning pieces, and delivering presentations for clients, stakeholders and for the Health Innovation South West.
- Helping our partners to understand complex problems, utilise relevant data and insights to define opportunities for innovation and improvement aligned to defined regional priorities.
- Working with partners from across the health and care system, academic, commercial and VCSE sectors to test and evaluate innovation in the real world.
- Supporting the organisation and partners to plan and deliver evaluation projects across the region.
- Finding and using opportunities to share learning inside and outside of the Health Innovation South West.
- Assisting with bids and tender processes for evaluation projects to support income generation.
- Other appropriate responsibilities as, from time to time, instructed by the line manager.
- Able to demonstrate the values of the organisation in all your work as impact led, improvement focused and collaborative.

**What you’ll need to succeed**:
**Experience we are looking for**:

- Excellent knowledge and understanding of evaluation methodologies.
- Experience of planning and delivering evaluation projects within an applied/real world context.
- Excellent mixed method research skills.
- Qualitative research skills: developing topic guides, undertaking semi-structured interviews, coding interviews using approaches such as thematic analysis and inductive/deductive techniques, knowledge of qualitative research theory including realist evaluation, grounded theory and thematic analysis.
- Quantitative research skills: broad knowledge of basic statistical techniques - parametric statistics such as t-test, ANOVA, chi-squared, regression, and possibly more advanced statistical techniques that will be useful in real-world evaluation.
- Experience of contributing to the design of evaluation projects drawing on the above qualitative and quantitative techniques, to combine and triangulate analysis from a range of techniques, deliver evaluations using this analysis, write clear and compelling evaluation reports and communicate these to commissioners.
- Experience of working with stakeholders to develop a logic model and/or theory of change.
- Experience or a willingness to develop skills in the areas of health economics (e.g. cos

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