Evaluation, Learning and Impact Officer

Active Cheshire is a value led organisation who lives and breathes our core values of: Inclusivity, Collaboration, Integrity, Passion, Innovation. Our vision is to see more people, more active, more often living longer, happier, healthier lives. We will connect sport, physical activity, and movement opportunities across Cheshire & Warrington to provide fairer and greater access for all, whilst tackling health inequalities.

In line with the Sport England Uniting The Movement strategy and Active Cheshire’s own strategy, we know that great things happen in local communities when people from that community are at the heart of their development. Building strong ‘place-based’ partnerships around shared purpose and utilising place learning to drive strategic decisions will enable long-term, sustainable change.

This collaborative approach is rooted in a shared ambition to reduce inequalities and enable more people to live active, healthier lives. Together, we are building a strong strategic group to shape and drive place-based change, with a focus on how the system works, not just what it delivers.

We’re looking for someone to lead our movement. Someone to galvanise partners, to enable change, to be focused on the long-term vision with a flexible approach to getting there.

Success over the next 12-18 months will be defined as having a strong structure and approach in place, including identification of conditions for change to move forward into subsequent place expansion phases. That next stage will be to work alongside Sport England and place partners to build a consensus for the future of place-based working in Cheshire Warrington.

Accountabilities (not exhaustive):

• Be a passionate advocate for the positive role physical activity can play with our communities driven by data and insight.
• Gaining a deep understanding of the current ELI framework and its interaction with similar and contrasting models across place partners and system partners.
• Developing and refining the place based ELI framework to reflect the discovery and discovery+ phases of this development work.
• Ensuring the place expansion metrics are incorporated in PULSE and other existing ELI methodologies.
• Ensuring data capture methods are embedded in good practice and ethics, communicated to all partners and streamlined for success.
• Seek consensus amongst colleagues on how best to report impact and progress, utilising innovative IT solutions where possible to reduce workload and improve efficiency.
• Design and deliver regular impact reports to internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with place partners to drive collaboration in the ELI workforce.
• Be the ‘go-to’ ELI expert for knowledge and skills development.
• To support the Place Development Strategy Board with insight and Learning from the Development phase.
• Utilise and develop networks where insight already exists to build a comprehensive picture of the barriers and enablers at play in our 3 places.

Strong, meaningful and collaborative relationships will be the key to the successful delivery of this role. Key internal relationships include those with the Head of Data & Insight, the Active Cheshire Team and the extended place workforce. Externally, Sport England and the wider Active Partnership network, place Sponsors, strategic and community partners.

The skills and attributes outlined in this description are not exhaustive and we welcome candidates who can bring different relevant experiences to the role.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Good understanding of different qualitative and quantitative research methods, and how to use these effectively.
• Strong numeric skills and experience of data analysis.
• Good IT literacy, particularly Microsoft Office.
• Ability to interpret and analyse complex information and data sets.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with a diverse range of people.
• Ability to communicate in clear, concise language to a variety of audiences.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Ability to communicate naturally and empathetically with young people.
• Experience of monitoring and evaluation.
• Good understanding of different academic and public research sources.

Active Cheshire is a ‘Disability Confident’ and ‘Mindful Employer’ and as such we commit to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Our recruitment processes comply with the Equalities Act 2010, and people who have or are experiencing mental ill health will not be discriminated against.

To apply for this role, please send a CV and covering letter detailing how your skills and experience make you an appropriate candidate for this role to recruitment@activecheshire.org and enter AC/ELIO PD/25 in the subject line.