Title : Specialist - Learning & Evaluation
Employee Working Location : Partially Virtual / Hybrid (Hamilton, ON)
Employment Status : Permanent Full-Time
Salary Band : $ 59,869 - $ 74,836 / year
The Canadian Red Cross (CRC) - an inspirational not for profit organization, helps people and communities in Canada and around the world in times of need and supports them in strengthening their resilience. As a Canada's Best Employers 2024, we are committed to having an accessible, diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free work environment.
In this role, you will be:
- Responsible for end-to-end evaluation of the multi-year project, including but not limited to:
- Design: Develop a common and feasible evaluation framework to measure project success, outcome, impact, cost/benefit and effectiveness in collaboration with project partners that align with committed project success indicators and best practices in social prescribing.
- Planning: Develop methodologies, processes, tools and materials tailored to the needs of each phase to support data collection.
- Monitoring: Ongoing support and mentorship for each phase to address barriers and support best practices in data collection and evaluation. Identify risks impacting evaluation and develop mitigation strategies.
- Evaluation: Conduct focus groups, surveys and interviews as required, support data collection and ensuring data are reliable and valid.
- Analysis: Collate, clean, prepare and analyze data, prepare accessible verbal and written reports in a variety of formats suitable for diverse stakeholders.
- Knowledge Mobilization: Support project management with evidence to inform continuous quality improvement, and present evaluation findings to diverse multidisciplinary audiences including project partners and CRC leadership teams.
- Thorough desk/secondary research and regular scans to maintain current knowledge of the social determinants of health, population health, and social prescribing with specific focus on financial assistance.
- Engage collaboratively and cooperatively with internal and external stakeholders, including participants, partners, decision-makers, researchers and funders.
What we are looking for :
- The minimum qualifications for this position are college diploma or university degree, and 5+ years experience in public health, program evaluation, statistics, health policy or equivalent field.
- Experience with to related to:
- evaluation design, implementation, and reporting for a diverse, multidisciplinary audience including leadership level stakeholders.
- Evaluation of health and social support provision in Ontario.
- Conducting evaluation focused on social prescribing and/or financial assistance is an asset.
- Planning, leading and conducting inclusive program evaluation approaches.
- Social prescribing, social determinants of health, health equity and/or the health or community/voluntary sectors in Canada.
- Proficient with Microsoft PowerBI and Excel, inclusive of DAX and M.
- Proficient with other Microsoft and Office 365 applications (i.e., Teams, Sharepoint Online, Forms, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Proficiency with statistical programming languages an asset (i.e., Python, R, SQL, SAS, etc.)
- Ability to accurately identify, synthesize, profile, clean and prepare data from multiple sources for analysis.
- Ability to define, implement and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPI), progress, outputs and outcomes.
- Adept experience with data storytelling is an asset.
- Experience working in a community health or humanitarian setting an asset.
- Strong understanding of community health programming and best practices an asset.
- Strong understanding of health/community health reporting requirements considered an asset.
Working conditions :
- Much of the work is performed remotely at a home/hybrid office.
- May include long to moderate hours sitting and using computers and office equipment.
- This position may require travel to attend conferences, workshops and meetings as required.
- Eligibility to work in Canada : At this time, we welcome applications from candidates eligible to work in Canada. If you are not a citizen or permanent resident of Canada, we encourage you to carefully review your visa to find out whether you are eligible to work in the job you are considering applying for. Refer to our FAQ for more information.
- If you are selected for this role, you will be required to complete a successful pre-employment screening process which includes a satisfactory Enhanced Police Information Check (E-PIC).
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Salary Band:
$59,869 - $74,836