impact and evaluation manager

Imperial Health Charity

CHARING CROSS • HAMMERSMITH • QUEEN CHARLOTTE’S & CHELSEA • ST MARY’S • WESTERN EYE

T: 020 3857 9840E: [email protected]

Impact and Evaluation Manager

Job Pack

Imperial Health Charity is a registered charity, no. 1166084

@ImperialCharity @charityimperial

IMPERIAL HEALTH CHARITY - IMPACT AND EVALUATION MANAGER JOB PACK

About us

Imperial Health Charity helps our hospitals do more through grants, arts, volunteering and fundraising.

We fund major redevelopments, clinical research and medical equipment at five London hospitals as well as helping patients and their families at times of extreme financial difficulty.

Supporting the arts in healthcare, we manage an Arts Council accredited hospital art collection and run an arts engagement programme for patients and NHS staff.

We also manage volunteering across all five hospitals, adding value to the work of staff and helping to improve the hospital experience for patients.

Fundraising through major appeals and community events enables us to continue our essential work.

We support the five hospitals of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust: Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea, St Mary’s and the Western Eye


The roleWe are driven by the desire to make a positive difference to patient care in our hospitals and to do this we need the right people to join the charity.

We are looking for a highly experienced Impact and Evaluation Manager to join our small but dynamic grants team.

This new post is an exciting opportunity to lead on the monitoring and evaluation of our grants portfolio. In this role, you will work closely with the Head of Grants and the Grants Manager to demonstrate the impact of the grants we award.

The post holder will be responsible for developing an overarching evaluation framework across the charity, including our volunteering, fundraising and arts programme activities. The post holder will lead on the implementation of this evaluation framework across the charity in order to effectively measure our impact.

It will be vital that you are able to apply your own working knowledge, skills and experience to capture the outputs and outcomes of our activities, and to help demonstrate the difference our funding is making.

The post holder will have the opportunity to shape and influence current processes and procedures and to contribute to the charity’s decision making and strategy.

Role purpose:To lead on the monitoring and evaluation of Imperial Health Charity’s activities for the grants team.

Location: Charity Office, Edgware Road

Position: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £35,000-£38,000 per annum (dependent on experience)

Notice period: 2 months

Recruitment process:Initial interview with Chief Executive, Head of Grants and Grants Manager, involving a short task.

We are recruiting for an experienced Impact and Evaluation manager to join our grants team on a full time, permanent basis


IMPACT AND EVALUATION MANAGER

GRANTSOFFICER

Grants team structure:

HEAD OF GRANTS

GRANTSMANAGER


Our hospitals

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust provides acute and specialist healthcare for around one million people every year across five hospitals and a growing number of community services in north west London.

One of the largest NHS trusts in the country with more than 10,000 members of staff, its hospitals recently featured in the ground-breaking BBC Two documentary series Hospital.

The grants team at Imperial Health Charity oversees the awarding of grants to fund major capital projects, research and medical equipment, as well as helping patients at times of extreme financial difficulty.

The Trust’s five hospitals are:

• Charing Cross

• Hammersmith

• Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea

• St Mary’s

• Western Eye

Imperial Health Charity awards grants to fund major capital projects, research and medical equipment across the Trust’s five hospitals


Our grants programme

Since 2009, the charity has provided grants worth more than £34 million to over 500 projects and research studies.

We support staff, patients and the surrounding communities, striving to achieve great science, excellent patient care and healthier communities.

We provide funding via the following schemes:

• Dresden Hardship Fund • Small Grants Fund• Research Fellowships• Special Purpose Funds

Hospital projects we have funded include:

• Multi-million-pound refurbishment projects to renovate the A&E department at St Mary’s Hospital and the outpatients departments at Hammersmith Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and the Western Eye Hospital

• Supporting an innovative family-delivered neonatal care programme to help the parents of premature babies

• Funding weekly art sessions to improve the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of stroke patients

Through our grants programme, we support staff, patients and the surround-ing communities of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust


Main duties and responsibilities

1. Improve our understanding of our current grants portfolio

• Develop knowledge of the various projects funded by the charity across the hospital sites and recognise the links between the various grants schemes

• Deliver in-depth analysis and insight into the outputs, outcomes and impact of the charity’s grants portfolio

• Build effective relationships with current grant holders

2. Ensure we have the right information to assess impact effectively

• Develop and implement robust impact and evaluation for all grants schemes, in consultation with the Head of Grants and the Grants Manager

• Make recommendations and implement effective mechanisms for maintaining and collating accurate qualitative and quantitative data on the grants portfolio

• Produce information on the impact and evaluation of the charity’s grants for the grants team, to be used for development work

• Work with the charity’s communications team to provide impact information and case studies for external audiences

• Produce reports for the grants team, senior management team, charity committees and trustees on the impact of the charity’s grants

3. Lead on demonstrating our impact within the NHS charity sector

• Take ownership of the ongoing project with the ‘Maddox Group’: Developing a shared measurement toolkit for the NHS charity sector

• Liaise with, assist and build relationships with other funding bodies

• Create and deliver reports for the Head of Grants and charity trustees

The Impact and Evaluation Manager will improve our understanding of the grants portfolio


4. Lead on developing and implementing impact and evaluation of other activities within the charity

• Develop knowledge of the various volunteering, fundraising and arts activities across the hospital sites, and recognise the links between various initiatives

• Deliver in-depth analysis and insight on the outputs, outcomes and impact of these activities and the grants portfolio

• Make recommendations to improve cross-working between the charity’s departments to optimise impact and evaluation

• Work with the communications team to raise the public profile of the charity through case studies and other marketing collateral

5. General duties

• Support the wider work of the grants team where required• Continually review procedures and systems, and recommend

improvements to contribute to the team’s efficiency and effectiveness

• Assist the Head of Grants and the Grants Manager in the grants team’s development work

The above list of duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.


The personQualifications and education

Essential

• Educated to degree level or higher• Experience of grants management, impact and evaluation

(minimum three years in a similar role)

Desirable

• Advanced research degree (MSc or PhD) in a relevant scientific discipline or equivalent work experience

• Professional qualification or equivalent training experience in evaluation approaches

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Significant demonstrable knowledge in the field of monitoring, evaluation and impact

• Demonstrable academic understanding of quantitative and qualitative measures, and confidence in analysing and interpreting data

• Demonstrable understanding of evaluation approaches and theories

• Excellent numerical, statistical and analytical skills with proven ability and experience of using these to analyse data, and write clear and concise analysis

• High level of accuracy and attention to detail• Excellent MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build a strong

rapport with colleagues and grant holders

Desirable

• Proven ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and present complex information

Experience

Essential

• Experience of grants management, from pre-award to post-award, including advising, assessing, monitoring and evaluating grants

• Experience of working with online grants management systems

• Demonstrable experience of evaluating impact in the charitable funding sector

We are looking for an experienced Impact and Evaluation Manager with strong statistical and analytical skills


• Experience of providing evaluation and impact advice and supporting those conducting evaluations and impact measurement

Desirable

• Experience of working with committee members and/or trustees

• Experience/knowledge of the current NHS charity landscape

Personal qualities and behaviours

Essential

• Ability and motivation to deliver high-quality work with minimum supervision

• Highly organised• Confidence in dealing with multiple stakeholders and

competing priorities• A clear thinker who is proactive and solutions-focused• A strong team player

Desirable

• Systematic approach to work, seeking to improve systems, processes and information

• Willingness to contribute to the efficiency of the team

Other requirements

Essential

• Commitment to the values and principles of the NHS• Ability to travel between hospital sites where necessary• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information• Ability to work flexibly to cover the roles of other team

members in times of absence


Benefits

• Holiday entitlement 25 days per year plus bank holidays (increasing by one day a year up to a maximum of 33 days), plus an extra day’s holiday to be taken one week either side of your birthday

• Free gym membership Membership of the St Mary’s Hospital gym with access to yoga classes free of charge

• Interest-free season ticket loan A loan to cover the cost of a season ticket to and from your place of work (available upon successful completion of your probation period

• Life insurance We offer a death in service payment of three times your annual salary, up to £150,000.

• Pension We pay employer’s contributions of 10 per cent of your annual salary to a nominated pension fund

• Maternity/paternity leave We pay maternity and paternity leave above the statutory minimum requirement

• Staff Arts Club Membership of the Staff Arts Club includes free entry to London galleries and discounts to music, cinema and theatre events

We value our staff and offer a range of exciting benefits in return for their hard work and dedication

How to apply

Please complete the application form on our website and submit via email to Francesca Ferro, Head of Grants:

[email protected]

The closing date for applications is Friday 23 November.

Interviews will take place week beginning Monday 3 December.

To discuss this role further or for any enquiries, please contact Francesca Ferro, Head of Grants.

Applications for the Impact and Evaluation Manager role are now open!

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