Specialist, Learning & Evaluation

at  Canadian Red Cross

Employee Working Location : Partially Virtual / Hybrid (Hamilton, ON)
Employment Status : Permanent Full-Time
Salary Band : $ 59,869 - $ 74,836 / 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.

• Responsible for end-to-end evaluation of the multi-year project, including but not limited to:
• Design: Develop a common and feasible 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 social prescribing.
• Planning: Develop methodologies, processes, tools and materials tailored to the needs of each phase to support data collection.
• Monitoring: Ongoing support and mentorship for each phase to address barriers and support best practices in data collection and evaluation. Identify risks impacting evaluation and develop mitigation strategies.
• Evaluation: Conduct focus groups, surveys and interviews as required, support data collection and ensuring data are 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: Support project management with evidence to inform continuous quality improvement, and present evaluation findings to diverse multidisciplinary audiences including project partners and CRC leadership teams.
• Thorough desk/secondary research and regular scans to maintain current knowledge of the social determinants of health, population health, and social prescribing with specific focus on financial assistance.
• Engage collaboratively and cooperatively with internal and external stakeholders, including participants, partners, decision-makers, researchers and funders.