Job summary
The Impact and Evaluation Officer role is a crucial role in making sure that The Rainbow Foundation is able to articulate and evaluate its impact in a robust manner, demonstrating the social value of our work. This role is central to creating an evidence-based culture and embedding evaluation into service development and delivery across our organisation. You will help shape the future of the charity by working with colleagues across Rainbow, ensuring that impact and evaluation insights are used to drive service improvement and innovation.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking for their next challenge or a secondment opportunity to develop their skills and gain valuable experience.
Main duties of the job
Role Responsibilities:
- Take forward recommendations set out in our benchmarking evaluation report
- Lead on how Rainbow ensures we are collecting appropriate data for a full and proper evaluation of our activities
- Adopt and adhere to the principles of Social Value
- Develop a strategic and operational level Theory of Change and related Social Value model for our work
- Support the Shared Prosperity Fund and Active Futures programmes to gain relevant information to evidence the impact of their interventions. This will include some background research to ensure the data being collected is in line with best practice approaches in evaluating our services and their impact, and an understanding of how to gain and successfully utilise primary and secondary health data, and apply evaluation methodologies
- Provide regular progress reports to our senior management team on activity
- Support the production of the Rainbow Foundations Annual Impact Report
- Report on impact to date and make clear recommendations for collection of data going forward which embed quality improvement processes
- Ensure compliance with GDPR and data protection legislation, with particular focus on the use and storage of participant details
- Compliance with good clinical practice and research governance frameworks.
- Build links and collaborate with our health board and wider partners to access data supporting evidence of our impact
About us
The Rainbow Foundation is an active ageing charity which has successfully worked
to improve the health and wellbeing of our communities since 1994. In 2023 we
were announced the overall winners of the GSK IMPACT Awards in partnership with
the Kings Fund, which nationally recognises our outstanding work in health and
social care.
All our services put the needs of our clients and staff at the forefront of what we do.
As a charity we are driven by excellence over profits
Rainbows Strategy and Vision
Vision: Of an age friendly community in which people lead healthy fulfilling lives as
engaged citizens, with right of access to quality services both in their locality and
according to their needs.
Mission: To empower people of all ages to retain as much independence as
possible with an emphasis on rights, value and contribution,
and to support people to regain their sense of worth and discover their full potential,
by supporting them in making changes to bring this potential into the world and
ensuring their voice is heard.
Our Purpose: We are doers. We are a community. We change lives.
Our Values: Passion Ambition Respect Dignity Opportunity Empowerment
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role Responsibilities:
- Take forward recommendations set out in our benchmarking evaluation report
- Lead on how Rainbow ensures we are collecting appropriate data for a full and proper evaluation of our activities
- Adopt and adhere to the principles of Social Value
- Develop a strategic and operational level Theory of Change and related Social Value model for our work
- Support the Shared Prosperity Fund and Active Futures programmes to gain relevant information to evidence the impact of their interventions. This will include some background research to ensure the data being collected is in line with best practice approaches in evaluating our services and their impact, and an understanding of how to gain and successfully utilise primary and secondary health data, and apply evaluation methodologies
- Provide regular progress reports to our senior management team on activity
- Support the production of the Rainbow Foundations Annual Impact Report
- Report on impact to date and make clear recommendations for collection of data going forward which embed quality improvement processes
- Ensure compliance with GDPR and data protection legislation, with particular focus on the use and storage of participant details
- Compliance with good clinical practice and research governance frameworks.
- Build links and collaborate with our health board and wider partners to access data supporting evidence of our impact
Other duties:
- Carry out additional tasks that may be required from time to time to achieve agreed service outcomes
- Undertake continuous professional development and training, constructively participating in meetings, supervision and other events designed to improve communication and assist with personal skills development within the role
- Ensure that duties are undertaken with due regard and compliance with the Data Protection Act and other legislation
- Maintain confidentially of all information and records relating to the work of The Rainbow Foundation and work undertaken for monitoring and evaluation purposes
- Adhere to and promote our organisational values
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role Responsibilities:
- Take forward recommendations set out in our benchmarking evaluation report
- Lead on how Rainbow ensures we are collecting appropriate data for a full and proper evaluation of our activities
- Adopt and adhere to the principles of Social Value
- Develop a strategic and operational level Theory of Change and related Social Value model for our work
- Support the Shared Prosperity Fund and Active Futures programmes to gain relevant information to evidence the impact of their interventions. This will include some background research to ensure the data being collected is in line with best practice approaches in evaluating our services and their impact, and an understanding of how to gain and successfully utilise primary and secondary health data, and apply evaluation methodologies
- Provide regular progress reports to our senior management team on activity
- Support the production of the Rainbow Foundations Annual Impact Report
- Report on impact to date and make clear recommendations for collection of data going forward which embed quality improvement processes
- Ensure compliance with GDPR and data protection legislation, with particular focus on the use and storage of participant details
- Compliance with good clinical practice and research governance frameworks.
- Build links and collaborate with our health board and wider partners to access data supporting evidence of our impact
Other duties:
- Carry out additional tasks that may be required from time to time to achieve agreed service outcomes
- Undertake continuous professional development and training, constructively participating in meetings, supervision and other events designed to improve communication and assist with personal skills development within the role
- Ensure that duties are undertaken with due regard and compliance with the Data Protection Act and other legislation
- Maintain confidentially of all information and records relating to the work of The Rainbow Foundation and work undertaken for monitoring and evaluation purposes
- Adhere to and promote our organisational values
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
Desirable
- Post graduate level or equivalent relevant experience in
- evaluation or social research techniques.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of designing, executing and embedding
- measurement frameworks.
- Experience of turning data into visually engaging insights
- and communicating insights to drive decision-making.
Desirable
- Experience of carrying out social return on investment
- (SROI) for projects or programmes.
- Experience with statistical/data analysis tools (e.g. SPSS)
- and qualitative software packages.
- Experience of research/evaluation/impact reporting within
- the charitable or health or social care sector.
- Experience in designing and implementing new systems,
- databases and procedures for capturing data relating to
- impact.
Additional
Essential
- Must have a car and driving licence.
- Must be willing to have an enhanced DBS check.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- In-depth knowledge of research and evaluation methods,
- tools and techniques.
- Compliance with good clinical practice and research
- governance frameworks.
- Ability to engage and work with internal and external
- stakeholders to deliver results.
- Communication, presentation and influencing skills
- including good written skills, with track record in report
- writing.
- Project management experience, including being able to
- work to deadlines.
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Able to evidence demonstrable changes brought about
- through robust impact measurement.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to interpret
- complex information for a range of non-specialist audiences
- (funders, policy makers and service users).
- Highly developed analytical skills, with the ability to apply
- creative solutions to complex problems.
- Ability to think critically about monitoring, evaluation and
- learning.
- Highly detail oriented with excellent accuracy.
- Organised and self-motivated with the ability to manage a
- varied workload within agreed deadlines.
- A proactive and flexible approach with the ability to work
- independently and act on initiative where appropriate.
- Ability to analyse reports and data and provide meaningful
- and credible information on short term results and long-term
- trends.
Desirable
- Understanding of coproduction and collaboration when
- designing and carrying out research and evaluation activity.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
Desirable
- Post graduate level or equivalent relevant experience in
- evaluation or social research techniques.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of designing, executing and embedding
- measurement frameworks.
- Experience of turning data into visually engaging insights
- and communicating insights to drive decision-making.
Desirable
- Experience of carrying out social return on investment
- (SROI) for projects or programmes.
- Experience with statistical/data analysis tools (e.g. SPSS)
- and qualitative software packages.
- Experience of research/evaluation/impact reporting within
- the charitable or health or social care sector.
- Experience in designing and implementing new systems,
- databases and procedures for capturing data relating to
- impact.
Additional
Essential
- Must have a car and driving licence.
- Must be willing to have an enhanced DBS check.
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- In-depth knowledge of research and evaluation methods,
- tools and techniques.
- Compliance with good clinical practice and research
- governance frameworks.
- Ability to engage and work with internal and external
- stakeholders to deliver results.
- Communication, presentation and influencing skills
- including good written skills, with track record in report
- writing.
- Project management experience, including being able to
- work to deadlines.
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Able to evidence demonstrable changes brought about
- through robust impact measurement.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to interpret
- complex information for a range of non-specialist audiences
- (funders, policy makers and service users).
- Highly developed analytical skills, with the ability to apply
- creative solutions to complex problems.
- Ability to think critically about monitoring, evaluation and
- learning.
- Highly detail oriented with excellent accuracy.
- Organised and self-motivated with the ability to manage a
- varied workload within agreed deadlines.
- A proactive and flexible approach with the ability to work
- independently and act on initiative where appropriate.
- Ability to analyse reports and data and provide meaningful
- and credible information on short term results and long-term
- trends.
Desirable
- Understanding of coproduction and collaboration when
- designing and carrying out research and evaluation activity.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
