Job Opportunity - Evaluation Specialist, BC Healthy Communities

Evaluation Specialist

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Introduction

This is a maternity leave contract coverage position for 12 months with a possible extension. As it is a work from home position, candidates across BC will be considered. Our ideal candidate will start as soon as possible.

BC Healthy Communities (BCHC) is looking for an Evaluation Specialist to join our highly collaborative and innovative team. Working closely with our public health professionals, community planners, community engagement specialists as well as a range of other staff, you lead the design and implementation of our day-to-day evaluation tactics.

As the Evaluation Specialist, you play the key role in evaluating the impact of BCHC’s work across the province. You provide evaluation guidance, oversight and implementation to our team, and you are responsible for ensuring our evaluation activities support the evaluation framework. You lead and oversee analysis of our largely qualitative data, and can translate that data into a range of useful tools to support learning, engagement, communications, and organization development.

Company

About Us

BC Healthy Communities is a province-wide not-for-profit organization that facilitates the ongoing development of healthy, thriving and resilient communities. We provide a range of services, programs, events and resources to support communities, local governments, and multi-sectoral groups to collaborate around a shared vision for a common purpose.

●       We foster and model principles, processes and practices of community development, emphasizing the value of listening, learning, respect and active engagement;

●       We honour the strengths and experiences of each community, while offering support for capacity building;

●       We promote inclusion of a broad range of people and perspectives;

●       We take a big picture, whole systems approach, identifying roots of issues and looking for ways to leverage change; and

●       We support connections, collaboration and human development at multiple levels: individuals, organizations, sectors and communities.

Our Commitment to You

BC Healthy Communities offers a progressive workplace culture that encourages leadership and learning. The benefits of working at BCHC include:

●       Remote work environment;

●       6% vacation your first year; and

●       Paid health days.

At BCHC we value diversity and we foster a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected, and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person’s talents and strengths. We encourage applications from those who may not strictly meet the specific qualifications listed above, but whose unique experience, abilities and perspectives would still make them a strong candidate for the position, particularly those who understand the importance of equity from the perspective of lived experience. We will take into consideration any accommodation measures required to enable candidates to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner.

Position

Key Responsibilities

Your portfolio largely consists of evaluating our provincial PlanH program, as well a range of other projects and programs across our organization. You also regularly provide the Executive Director and Communications Manager with data to support strategic communications and planning.

In this role, you:

●       Bring leadership and evaluation expertise;

●       Possess strong analytical and data management skills;

●       Work well with a team and have experience providing advice and guidance;

●       Provide attention to detail and accuracy; and

●       Excellent ability to translate research data into impactful reports and resources.

Evaluation and Reporting

●       Lead evaluation design and implementation (develop/refine logic models, evaluation plans, data collection tools and methodologies, analyze and triangulate qualitative and quantitative data), identifying patterns and emerging themes;

●       Coordinate and manage data collection along specific timelines;

●       Guide and work with staff to compile data, statistics, and other information from a variety of sources (e.g. event evaluations, mid-term/final reports, surveys, focus groups, case studies) that support programs and initiatives; and

●       Provide evaluation summaries, presentations and reports for staff, funders, and others.

Communications

●       Link evaluation data to communications strategy for knowledge translation; and

●       Provide strategic thinking around data such as stories, quotes, statistics that support communications (e.g. quotes for social media and our website, interesting statistics around patterns identified).

Direct Community Support

●       Provide evaluation-related advice, expertise and support to a range of communities/stakeholders as part of BCHC projects as needed;

●       Act as BCHC contact for any PlanH grant recipients who are seeking evaluation-focused support (e.g. logic modelling, evaluation planning) as needed/requested.

Other

●       Provides overall support for BCHC program and project activities and initiatives as needed, works closely with the BCHC team to support strategic planning, and overall organizational learning and development

●       Attend, participate and contribute in team meetings, strategic meetings and planning sessions;

●       Collaborate with staff and colleagues to achieve a coordinated approach;

●       Remain current with best practices, trends and opportunities in the evaluation field; 

●       Maintain a respectful, courteous and team spirit environment; and

●       Other duties as required.

Required Skills

To do this job you will need

●       Masters-level education/experience in a related field (e.g. public health, healthy communities, community development, social sciences, planning);

●       Over 5 years of related experience;

●       Demonstrated experience leading the development of frameworks, data analysis and data management;

●       Adept at evaluation and analysis (e.g. with developing and implementing various methodologies, data analysis);

●       Experience making the evaluation process accessible;

●       Working knowledge and experience with NVivo and other data analysis applications, and other tools such as online surveys;

●       Strong knowledge of, and experience with, community capacity-building, community development, public health, equity, planning;

●       Strong critical thinking/analytical skills;

●       Ability to analyze complex scenarios, troubleshoot and make recommendations in   alignment   with the program and organizational vision;

●       Works well in a collaborative environment;

●       High attention to detail and accuracy;

●       Flexibility: able to adapt to changing timelines, different people and work assignments;

●       Demonstrated ability to plan and manage timelines; and

●       Excellent communication, writing and interpersonal skills;

How to Apply

Please submit a cover letter and resume by November 15, 2020 at 11:59pm PDT through Humi (https://bchc.humi.ca/job-board/evaluation/2785). If there are any issues with this process, please submit your application to Lauren Olson at lauren@bchealthycommunities.ca and title the subject line of your e-mail: Evaluation Specialist - First Name Last Name.

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