Evaluation Researcher

The Overview

**Are you a researcher with a passion for health improvement and ready to develop your skills?**

Health Innovation South West is looking for an Evaluation Researcher who’s ready to develop their skills in evaluation and health innovation.

Whilst we particularly welcome those with quantitative skills, the role is suitable for early-career professionals who have some mixed methods experience with both qualitative and quantitative methods and are excited to deepen their expertise.

You’ll be supported by experienced mentors, collaborate on dynamic projects across the health sector, and contribute directly to real-world change.

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.

Role profile

**The Evaluation and Learning team bring together a range of specialists with varied and complimentary skillsets.**

**We are keen to provide the opportunity for people to join us to use their existing quantitative and qualitative skillsets and to further develop and use these skills to support health innovation work.**

**Key success factors**
- Mixed methods training, skills and experience.
- Experience of, or willingness to learn, undertaking applied evaluations within real world settings,
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment across multiple projects/teams.

**Responsibilities**

The main purpose of the role is to support 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 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 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.

**Experience we are looking for**
- Knowledge and understanding of evaluation methodologies.
- Experience of planning and delivering evaluation projects.
- Mixed method research skills.
- Qualitative research skills which might include areas s