Title : Specialist, Evaluation 

Employee Working Location : Remote (Canada)

Employment Status : Temporary Full-Time (Until 31 January 2026)

Salary Band : $ 55,953 - $ 81,656 / year

The Canadian Red Cross (CRC) – an inspirational not for profit organization, helps people and communities in Canada and around the world in times of need and supports them in strengthening their resilience. As a Canada’s Best Employers 2024, we are committed to having an accessible, diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free work environment. 

In this role, you will :

• Responsible for end-to-end evaluation of the multi-partner project, including but not limited to:
  • Design: Develop an evaluation framework to measure project success, outcome, impact, cost/benefit and effectiveness in collaboration with project partners that align with committed project success indicators and best practices in caregiver support and social prescribing.
  • Planning: Develop methodologies, processes, tools and materials tailored to the needs of each project site to support data collection.
  • Monitoring: Ongoing support and mentorship for each project site to address barriers and support best practices in data collection and evaluation. Identify risks impacting evaluation and develop mitigation strategies.
  • Data collection: Conduct focus groups, surveys and interviews as required, support data collection and ensuring data is reliable and valid.
  • Analysis: Collate, clean, prepare and analyze data, prepare accessible verbal and written reports in a variety of formats suitable for diverse stakeholders.
  • Knowledge mobilization: In collaboration with the Project Manager, support project sites and wider social prescribing network to utilize results for quality improvement and impact measurement, produce graphics, prepare manuscript for publication and present at events and conferences as opportunities arise.
• Conduct thorough desk/secondary research and regular scans, develop broad and current knowledge of the social determinants of health, population health, social prescribing with specific focus on caregiving and caregiver support.
• Support Project Manager to provides detailed reports and communicate regularly with relevant project stakeholders, funders and CRC executives.
• Provide research and evaluation support and capacity-building to the CRC national health team and social prescribing partners.
• Engage collaboratively and cooperatively with internal and external stakeholders, including participants, partners, decision-makers, researchers and funders.

What we are looking for : 

• Master’s degree or 6 to 8 years of equivalent work experience in public health, evaluation, epidemiology, statistics, health policy or recognized equivalent field.
• Experience conducting research and evaluation focused on caregiving and caregiver support an asset;
• Recent experience (within the last 3 years) in planning, leading and conducting evaluation studies/program evaluations (including developing logic models, program measures and evaluation strategies)
• Excellent evaluation methodological skills, particularly evidence of recent experience with using both quantitative and qualitative methods in evaluation or research studies (e.g. planning and conducting focus groups, interviews or surveys; analysis of administrative or other quantitative and qualitative data).
• Ability to lead complex multi-disciplinary teams comprised of internal and external stakeholders.
• Knowledge or experience applying analytical frameworks to understand complex social issues.
• Computer Skills: MS softwares like Access, Excel, PowerBI, Fabric; Nvivo or equivalent software, Python, R or other programming languages an asset.
• Demonstrated understanding of community-based and participatory approaches to evaluation and commitment to equity, anti-racism, and anti-oppression principles and practices
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; French considered an asset.
• Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to CISP core values of health equity, community leadership and collaboration.
• Experience with social prescribing, social determinants of health, health equity and/or the health or community/voluntary sectors in Canada.
• Demonstrated experience in developmental, realist and mixed methods evaluation and adoption of shared measurement frameworks into practice. 

Working conditions : 

• Much of the work is performed remotely at a home office.
• Periodic national and/or international travel may be required.
• Eligibility to work in Canada: At this time, we welcome applications from candidates eligible to work in Canada. If you are not a citizen or permanent resident of Canada, we encourage you to carefully review your visa to find out whether you are eligible to work in the job you are considering applying for. Refer to our FAQ for more information.
• If you are selected for this role, you will be required to complete a successful pre-employment screening process which includes a satisfactory Enhanced Police Information Check (E-PIC).
• As we work with and support people (managers, colleagues, beneficiaries/customers, volunteers, donors and external partners) and communities in Canada and around the world, applicants whose first language is not English may be required to perform the responsibilities of the role in English.

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