Job Title:Evaluation, Learning and Impact Officer
Department:Strategy
Reports to:Head of Data & Insight
Salary Banding:£31,500 - £33,500
Location:Flexible working with a dedicated office space in Winsford, Cheshire
Duration:Fixed-term contract for 12months
About Active Cheshire
Active Cheshire is a value led organisation who lives and breathes our core values of: Inclusivity, Collaboration, Integrity, Passion, Innovation.
Our vision is to see more people, more active, more often living longer, happier, healthier lives. We will connect sport, physical activity, and movement opportunities across Cheshire & Warrington to provide fairer and greater access for all, whilst tackling health inequalities. As a funded Sport England System Partner, we will lead the physical activity system across Cheshire & Warrington.
Nature & Scope
In line with the Sport England Uniting The Movement strategy and Active Cheshire’s own strategy, we know that great things happen in local communities when people from that community are at the heart of their development. Building strong ‘place-based’ partnerships around shared purpose and utilising place learning to drive strategic decisions will enable long-term, sustainable change.
We are proud to be working in close partnership with Brio Leisure, Everybody Health & Leisure, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, and Warrington Borough Council to deliver Sport England’s Place Partnership programme across Cheshire and Warrington. This collaborative approach is rooted in a shared ambition to reduce inequalities and enable more people to live active, healthier lives.
Together, we are building a strong strategic group to shape and drive place-based change, with a focus on how the system works, not just what it delivers.This group will continue to evolve over time, ensuring the right voices, skills, and experiences are at the table to create lasting impact and deliver a sustainable whole-system approach to tackling inactivity.
We’re looking for someone to lead our movement. Someone to galvanise partners, to enable change, to be focused on the long-term vision with a flexible approach to getting there.
In Cheshire & Warrington, 5 Middle Super-Output Area’s (MSOA’s) have been identified through Sport England’s Place Needs Classification: Ellesmere Port Town and Rossmore, Wolverham & Stanlow (Cheshire West & Chester), Hulme, Blackbrook (Warrington), Crewe Coppenhall and Underwood (Cheshire East).
With a focus on enablers of change through asset based community development principles, we’re looking to lay the foundation on which place expansion can anchor and grow.This isn’t a project; we’re changing the system. Success over the next 12-18 months will be defined as having a strong structure and approach in place, including identification of conditions for change to move forward into subsequent place expansion phases.
That next stage will be to work alongside Sport England and place partners to build a consensus for the future of place-based working in Cheshire Warrington. It will be to unlock the route to further investment based upon the voices of our communities.Our communities will tell us how collectively we can succeed in reducing inactivity, increasing activity, creating positive experiences for young people and tackling inequality.
Accountabilities (not exhaustive)
The list below sets out the core functions of the role:
·Be a passionate advocate for the positive role physical activity can play with our communities driven by data and insight
·Gaining a deep understand of the current ELI framework and its interaction with similar and contrasting models across place partners and system partners
·Developing and refining the place based ELI framework to reflect the discovery and discovery+ phases of this development work
·Ensuring the place expansion metrics are incorporated in PULSE and other existing ELI methodologies
·Ensuring data capture method are embedded in good practice and ethics, communicated to all partners and streamlined for success
·Seek consensus amongst colleagues on how best to report impact and progress, utilising innovate IT solution where possible to reduce workload and improve efficiency
·Design and deliver regular impact reports to internal and external stakeholders
·Work with place partners to drive collaboration in the ELI workforce
·Be the ‘go-to’ ELI expert for knowledge and skills development
·To support the Place Development Strategy Board with insight and Learning from the Development phase
·Utilise and develop networks where insight already exists to build a comprehensive picture of the barriers and enables at play in our 3 places
Relationships
Strong, meaningful and collaborative relationships will be the key to the successful delivery of this role.Key internal relationships include those with the Head of Data & Insight, the Active Cheshire Team and the extended place workforce.
Externally, Sport England and the wider Active Partnership network, place Sponsors, strategic and community partners. All of which will be an integral network on which successful relationships will define the success or failure of place-based working.
The ability to create a network that doesn’t position any one single partner at its centre is key.The network will be a mesh of aligned, equal, and motivated organisations, each playing its part in developing a more active Cheshire and Warrington.
Impact
Success will not be easy, but when it is delivered it will be hugely impactful.Our identified localities in Crewe, Ellesmere Port and Warrington Central will have embedded leaders aligned to our mission, partner networks who collaborate and learn freely with each other to share good practice and reduce/remove duplication.
Person Specification
The skills and attributes outlined in this description are not exhaustive and we welcome candidates who can bring different relevant experiences to the role.
Skills & Knowledge
•Good understanding of different qualitative and quantitative research methods, and how to use these effectively.
•Strong numeric skills and experience of data analysis.
•Good IT literacy, particularly Microsoft Office.
•Ability to interpret and analyse complex information and data sets.
•Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with a diverse range of people.
•Ability to communicate in clear, concise language to a variety of audiences.
•Strong organisational and project management skills.
•Ability to communicate naturally and empathetically with young people.
•Experience of monitoring and evaluation.
•Good understanding of different academic and public research sources.
What can we offer to you
·Competitive salary in line with market expectations, regularly reviewed and benchmarked
·25 days annual leave and a hybrid working policy
·5% contribution to Company Pension Scheme, and an extensive HealthShield Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing 24/7 immediate support
·4x Life cover for death in service
·Personalised development programmes for all members of staff
How to Apply
Active Cheshire is a ‘Disability Confident’ and ‘Mindful Employer’ and as such we commit to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Our recruitment processes comply with the Equalities Act 2010, and people who have or are experiencing mental ill health will not be discriminated against.
Should you wish to have a confidential conversation with us about this vacancy prior to applying, please contact Head of Data & insight Hayley Preece on hayley.preece@activecheshire.org.
To apply for this role, please send a CV and covering letter detailing how your skills and experience make you an appropriate candidate for this role to recruitment@activecheshire.org and enter AC/ELIO PD/25 in the subject line.If you would like to submit your covering letter in a video format of you talking through your relevant experience, please do so.The video should accompany your CV, and be no longer than 5mins long, and in an MP4 format.
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