Senior Evaluation Consultant - Health Innovation London / Hybrid Up to c.GBP 48,000 plus bens - (posted Aug 20 2024)

Company: Spalding Goobey
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Job Spec: Join the Health Innovation team within this leading provider of monitoring, evaluation and learning services. Evaluating health & innovation policy is at the heart of their offering. They respond to the needs of government, helping to design, deliver and evaluate policies and programmes designed to support the growth of the life sciences industry in the UK, helping the NHS adopt novel technology, and assess the value of Government investments into ground breaking infrastructure and biomedical research. They are looking for a Senior Consultant to join the Policy and Evaluation Unit to support the continued growth of the team and the delivery of our evaluation work in these key areas.

As an Evaluation Senior Consultant, you will contribute to process, impact and economic evaluations of varying sizes and for a range of clients across health and social care. These projects will commonly assess the impacts of government interventions in relation to improving health outcomes for patients, digital healthcare and linkage of health data, attracting investment into disruptive sectors such as biotechnology, genomics or advanced therapies.

Day to day, you will manage evaluation and research strands within larger projects and smaller projects which have strong health innovation components. You will also have the opportunity to increase impact on health and industrial policy and social change in the UK by writing articles, attending events and engaging in social media. You will contribute to the ongoing business development of the Team by contributing to proposal\bid writing and to the monitoring of business development opportunities.


The main responsibilities of the role are...

• Evaluation delivery - specifically, the co-design and delivery of evaluation frameworks, the development of evaluation methods, the development of responses to evaluation questions and meeting evaluation objectives.
• The application of specific qualitative and quantitative evaluation techniques, such as theory based evaluation, realist approaches, cost-benefit analysis, experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluation methods (RCTs, matching methods).
• Management of projects or strands of projects.
• Developing day-to-day client relationships while ensuring projects are delivered to budget and timescale.
• Drafting research tools to a high standard, requiring little amendment (for desk-based secondary analysis and primary data collection).
• Overseeing primary data collection, including in-depth interviews and survey design / set-up.
• Drafting accessible and concise reporting outputs of evaluation and research findings.
• Presentation of results to clients and stakeholders.
• Leading and contributing to evaluation proposals as part of a wider team.
• Line management of junior staff.

• A strong academic background in social sciences, economics or a degree in a topic relevant to healthcare such as biomedical sciences.
• An understanding of major trends and developments in health innovation, and challenges in developing/adopting novel technology and/or therapeutic interventions into practice.
• Experience working for, or providing research or evaluation outputs for, the health, life sciences or biomedical sector, either in an NHS, consultancy, industry or academic position, or at a public/charitable research funder;
• An understanding of major health innovation pathways, and the challenges of developing/adopting novel technology and/or therapeutic interventions into practice.
• Experience working in the health, life sciences or biomedical sector, either in an NHS, industry or academic position, or at a public/charitable research funder;
• Experience of conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis relevant to this post.
• Experience designing research materials, including analytical frameworks, questionnaires and topic guides.
• Experience of conducting and overseeing primary and secondary data collection and analysis (interviews, surveys, literature review).
• Experience in the development of client-ready qualitative and quantitative analysis and reporting.
• Proven ability to lead/contribute to research and evaluation proposals.

Who to contact: Email your CV (in confidence) to sga@spalding-goobey.co.uk, quoting the reference above, or contact Andrew Goobey, Andrew Mercer, Caroline Rock or Rebecca Meaton on 020 7287 7237

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