Job description:

Evaluation and Learning Officer

Hours / Full-time
Contract Type / Fixed term 6 month contract
Location / 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
Reports to / Quality and Learning Manager
Responsible for: / N/A

Context
Imagine a world in which everyone has access to quality healthcare. For over 25 years THET has been working to build that world. We are a global voice for health workers, working to transform the quality and availability of medical training around the world. We provide responsive health workforce development programmes where they are needed the most. We believe that the transformational power of health partnerships is an innovative tool to strengthen health systems. Our approach is based on a collaborative model that generates North-South and South-South mutual benefits.

THET is managing grants for heath partnership initiatives on behalf of donors wanting to support global health workforce development. THET currently manages the DFID-funded Health Partnership Scheme (HPS) and the Africa Grants Programme (AGP) supported by the Johnson and Johnson Foundation. It involves providing tailored support to health partnerships to design, deliver and evidence effective human resources for health projects that train health workers to address a range of health issues in LMICs.
Job Purpose
To facilitate the development of effective health partnerships between UK health institutions and their counterparts in the low- and middle-income countriesby supporting good practice inmonitoring, evaluation,and learning. To ensure that results and insights from health partnership work are recorded, analysed and made accessible, for learning and accountability.

Accountability and Working Relationships
The Evaluation and Learning Officer is accountable to the Quality and Learning Manager and will work particularly closely with the health partnership Grant Officers and with the Country Programmes team as needed.

Main Functions

Developing effective health partnerships

  1. Support health partnerships, in the UK and overseas, with project planning and monitoring, evaluation and learning, remotely and through meetings.This may require occasional UK and overseas travel.
  2. Prepare and deliver workshops and learning events, in the UK, overseas and online, on project planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning.

Capturing and communicating evidence

  1. Coordinate and update health partnership data collection and reporting systems, and ensure they are being used consistently and effectively.
  2. Maintain and update quantitative and qualitative health partnership data management and analysis systems, and ensure they are being used consistently and effectively.
  3. Produce quantitative and qualitative elements of donor reports from health partnership data.
  4. Make health partnership highlights and insights accessible to colleagues and partners, and assist colleagues and health partnerships to learn from and share them.
  5. Undertake research, using surveys, interviews and other methods as necessary,to supplement health partnership report data and support learning.
  6. Coordinate and assist researchers and evaluators.

Country Programmes

  1. Provide M&E support to the country programmes for proposal development and existing programmes when required.

General

  1. Represent THET at external meetings with donors, NGOs and others.
  2. Contribute to other Evaluation & Learning team and THET work as required.

Person specification

Essential / Desirable
Qualifications /
  • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree at 2:1 or above or equivalent relevant experience.

Experience /
  • Relevant experience of working in a monitoring and evaluation role;
  • Experience in a voluntary, research or health sector organisation.
  • Experience of developing project evaluation frameworks such as theories of change and logframes;
  • Experience of Qualitative and / or quantitative data collection in health, organisational development or community development projects;
  • Experience of facilitation of learning and knowledge management within and between projects and organisations;

Knowledge /
  • Monitoring & evaluation concepts;
  • International development concepts;
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  • Global health concepts
  • Capacity building principles
  • Online learning approaches

Skills /
  • Ability to help non-specialists understand and strengthen monitoring and evaluation in their work;
  • Presentation of complicated
concepts and data clearly in written and spoken English;
  • Workshop presentation and facilitation;
  • Effective management of competing deadlines;
  • Good IT skills including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
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  • Clinical or economic data management and analysis
  • Production and review of knowledge resources (preferably online) in various media.

Values /
  • Commitment to THET’s approach, ethos and values;

Other /
  • Capacity to travel occasionally in UK and overseas;
  • Capacity to respond flexibly to changing requirement