Head of Evaluation & Insights

Job responsibilities

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The Head of Evaluation & Insights will provide strategic leadership for our approach to evaluation and insights both internal and external, ensuring that we understand the impact of our work, influence action, and share best practice. This is an important new role within Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussexs development and growth phase and the job holder will lead the development of the insight and analytical approaches we use to measure impact and value internally and for external stakeholders and customers. The post holder will support the delivery of a hybrid approach to evaluation delivery using internal and external expertise and services.

This job description provides an overview of roles and responsibilities for the Head of Evaluation & Insights, noting that an early requirement of the role will be to lead the development of the detailed programme of work for the evaluation and insights function and embedding it into the organisation.

Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex operates a flexible resourcing model which means that the details of specific evaluation and insights work may be varied over time to meet the needs of organisation in supporting delivery of commissioner requirements.

Key result areas

The post holder will lead and deliver a defined set of evaluation and insights activity to generate evidence of impact on health and healthcare through working with our stakeholders.

The post holder will be responsible for the successful delivery of the required outcomes relating to evaluation and insights work, including governance and assurance, monitoring, risk management as appropriate and be responsible of reporting using our internal Verto tool.

The post holder will represent Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex at the Network wide Community of Practice forum.

The post holder will generate income from third party sources for the organisation

Key responsibilities will include:

To collaborate with Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussexs teams including delivery (including innovation and enterprise), translational research, commercial/DDAI and Corporate in the design and delivery of evaluation and insight activity and implementation strategy

To lead the delivery and growth of a pipeline of evaluation and insights activity (in line with Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussexs business development ambitions), securing funding from a range of sources, and collaborating with our diverse and multi-disciplinary stakeholder communities.

Support the selection and management of evaluation suppliers and delivery activity to enhance the insights tools and approaches, ensuring they meet the needs of the organisation and evolving these over time.

Manage the supplier framework for evaluation services

Provide scoping of evaluations for innovators, health and care stakeholders, Pharma and internal colleagues as required

Design and deliver webinars in relation to evaluation and analytic services for a range of stakeholders, not limited to but focusing on Innovators and system leads

To work closely with Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex teams to ensure meaningful patient and public involvement and community engagement is embedded in our evaluation methods and processes

To advocate the appropriate use and value of data and insight to drive improvement and innovation and business cases for health economics through communications, processes, webinars and workshops for and to our stakeholders

Embed a culture and system of continuous learning into approach to work in order to evolve our core methods in evaluation, spread and adoption, knowledge management and patient and public partnership

Quality assure the delivery of evaluation and insights work and activity

Be a role model for best practice, learning from experience and from others, supporting the spread of innovation within the organisation and beyond.

Be accountable for the delivery of, robust, information systems to ensure that all evaluation and insights documentation is stored and used effectively

Communicate the vision for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and support the development of strategy and operational policies that support this vision, as may be required

Communicate, engage and build relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation, wider health innovation network and wider health and social care systems and partner organisations

Engage and manage relationships with stakeholders to achieve a common purpose and realise mutual benefits

Forge close working relationships across the organisation and beyond to facilitate an effective matrix management approach to delivery of evaluation and insights activity

Provide advice and guidance to the wider programme and project management team as a subject matter expert in insights and evaluation methodologies, tools and approaches and where appropriate provide training to staff.

Communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information to wide range of audiences, including in public and local consultations where there may be hostile/antagonistic audiences

Hold budgetary responsibility for the evaluation and insights function, tracking and monitoring spend

Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year

Build a collaborative working environment and innovative culture

Advise on innovative opportunities and support all departments in their strategies and programmes to relating to evaluation and insights activity

Promote innovation and development initiatives as may be appropriate to secure cost and service improvements from alternative methods of operation or re-engineering existing processes

Contribute to the development of strategic processes and polices that support the work of evaluation and insights activity within the wider organisation and across health and social care

Develop policies relating to the delivery of evaluation and insights work

Work within organisation and national guidance, interpreting national guidance relevant to evaluation and insights activity and act a subject matter specialist

Provide advice and guidance across the Health Innovation Network and beyond on specific subject matter areas

Work with other Health Innovation Network Evaluation leads to develop long-term strategic plans that integrate evaluation and insights activity across the Health Innovation Network and the two local integrated care systems we serve

Responsible for leading the delivery of the portfolio of evaluation and insights work for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex

Leading and overseeing the set-up and delivery of evaluation and insights ...