Are you a strategic thinker and experienced leader in the field of Evaluation? Are you passionate about improving health and wellness for young people across BC? We have an exciting opportunity at Foundry for a Full-Time Senior Evaluation Specialist to join our Evaluation Team! As the Senior Evaluation Specialist, you will play a critical role in advancing Foundry's transformative Evaluation Strategy. This includes developing and implementing a new evaluation strategy and framework, building evaluation capacity across Foundry's Central Office and network of centres and mobilizing our data within Foundry's learning health system to drive improvements and ensure equitable access to high quality services for young people.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education, Training and Experience
Graduate degree in evaluation, research-related science or a social science discipline, plus five (5) years’ experience working in a health care environment, managing and coordinating evaluations or quality improvement projects, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Skills and Abilities
• Demonstrated knowledge of health research methodology, principles and procedures.
• Demonstrated knowledge of outcome measurement tools.
• Demonstrated knowledge of evaluation approaches including developmental, formative and summative evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability in coordinating and managing evaluations at an organizational, community and systems level.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and facilitate multi-partner evaluation initiatives.
• Experience supervising and coaching staff, including staff working remotely.
• Knowledge of the delivery of care in a public health care system, government processes and health authority structures and responsibilities.
• Effective communication skills to function within a complex interdisciplinary environment involving diverse program partners including health care providers, community partners, and youth and families.
• Ability to problem-solve and make decisions independently.
• Ability to work with Microsoft Office software and competency with data collection and analysis platforms (e.g. R, SPSS, NVivo, Qualtrics).
• Experience generating reports and materials to communicate findings to various audiences in an effective written, visual, and spoken manner.
• Ability to lead and manage responsively in an environment of change and redefinition.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including facilitation and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage a geographically distributed team.
• Ability to plan, organize, and manage priorities to meet tight deadlines.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

1. In collaboration with Foundry’s Evaluation Lead, provides leadership in the development and implementation of Foundry’s evaluation strategy. Develops, coordinates, and implements Foundry’s Evaluation Framework to support continuous learning and improvement.

2. Works collaboratively with Foundry’s Community Engagement, Indigenous Wellness, Knowledge Translation, Services and Policy teams and partners to ensure that Foundry’s evaluation and data collection efforts are context informed and include consideration of youth, families, Indigenous peoples, government and other partners.

3. Working collaboratively with the Foundry Central Office team, Centre leadership, staff and young people, leads the implementation of evaluation plans by overseeing literature reviews, identifying partners and collaborators, and creating evaluation frameworks and measurement plans.

4. Oversees multi-site data collection to meet the reporting requirements for the evaluation plan/framework. Provides direction to Evaluation Coordinators and Youth Peer Evaluators who support implementation of centre-level collection and use of Foundry’s data collection systems.

5. Analyses, synthesizes and interprets data as requested by Foundry leadership. Supports and/or leads the development of evaluation reports and knowledge products (written and verbal) related to evaluation activities and projects in formats as required by funders or tailored to the needs of users.

6. At the direction of Foundry’s Evaluation Lead, works collaboratively with Indigenous partners to ensure that Foundry’s evaluation and data collection efforts respect principles related to ownership, control, access and possession of data that is identifiable as being from persons of Indigenous descent.

7. Supports the development and maintenance of Foundry’s Minimum Data Set, as well as the maintenance of an up-to-date data dictionary that supports research, evaluation, and data team activities. Provides input into the ongoing assessment of Foundry’s Minimum Data Set.

8. Provides leadership and supervision to Evaluation Coordinators and Youth Peer Evaluators. Coaches and mentors staff; encourages staff development; monitors and evaluates staff to ensure effective performance of duties.

9. In consultation with the Evaluation Lead, monitors day-to-day aspects of evaluation including engagement and collaboration on evaluation development and implementation, data collection, collation, analysis and reporting.

10. Facilitates Learning Health System cycles, data interpretation, and use, in ongoing development and refinement of the integrated services model.

11. Attends local and provincial evaluation meetings as well as meetings on behalf of the Evaluation Lead to provide support, guidance and expertise to others undertaking evaluation processes.

12. Performs other related duties as required.