NHS Consortium Monitoring, Evaluation and Assurance Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Your responsivities include:

• Play a key role in the NHSC Secretariat setting up frameworks for monitoring and evaluation of NHSC projects, including reviewing and recommending process and outcome indicators, data collection and data flow methodologies, and evaluation protocols.
• Responsible for advising on day-to-day internal monitoring and evaluation activities across NHSC countries and contributing to related communication within NHSC.
• Ensure monitoring and evaluation systems and procedures are effective and to ensure project quality assurance and consistency across NHSC activities (in all countries).
• Analyse and compile project monitoring information to inform practice and produce reports and other documentation for different stakeholders.
• Support in-country staff to provide quality and timely monitoring and evaluation reports for stakeholders.
• Using qualitative methods case studies to capture and document hard-to-measure areas of change (e.g. perceptions, issues of inclusion and access, UK soft power) that are relevant across NHSC projects.
• Assist with gathering and interpreting of programme data relevant for Value for Money (VfM), GESI and Secondary Benefits (i.e. to the UK) analysis
• Supporting the translation of learning into policy, guidelines and practice as appropriate, and articulating and demonstrating clear results, impacts and value for money
• Maintain up to date knowledge of good practice and external developments in monitoring and evaluation of development projects and build the capacity of staff through training and support for effective implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems, including helping them anticipate and plan for MREL milestones over their project cycles (i.e. annual reviews, annual evaluations)
• Responsible for integrating learning from monitoring and evaluation of NHSC into the wider approaches to monitoring and evaluation within relevant agencies including UKHSA and Health Education England (NHS England from 1 April 2023).
• Work with UKHSA Monitoring & Evaluation managers for coordination and oversight of implementing the Global Operations Monitoring & Evaluation strategy across global programmes.

Selection process details

Your Statement of Suitability (no more than 1,000 words) should outline your skills, experience, and achievements, providing evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria (outlined in the person specification section).

You will also be asked to provide information within the Employer/ Activity history section of the application form. This is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV, setting out your career history.

STAGE 1 - APPLICATION & SIFT:

You will be required to complete an application form. This will be assessed in line with the advertised essential criteria please do provide evidence of how you meet this.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to an interview.

STAGE 2 INTERVIEW

This competition will involve an interview by Teams.

As part of the process, candidates will be invited to interview which will involve an in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence in relation to the criteria set out in the Person Specification.

Expected Timeline:

Advert close: 23:55hrs on 20th March 2023 unfortunately, late applications will not be considered. Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Interviews: w/c 03/04/2023

Please note these dates could be subject to change.

Eligibility Criteria

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants)

Nationality requirements

Appointments to roles within UKHSA will be made in accordance with the Civil Service nationality rules. These can be found athttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rulesThis job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of theEuropean Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.

Security clearance level requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard. People working with government assets must complete Basic Personnel Security Standard checks.

For posts on UKHSA Civil Service terms and conditions, new entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band. For existing Civil Servants and roles advertised across government, the rules of transfer apply, i.e., level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive a 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.

Please Note

This role is to be appointed under Civil Service Terms & Conditions. Full details on the T&Cs are found https://www.ukhsa.reed.com/

Are you already a civil servant, or employed by a Civil Service Commission accredited public body? Please state home department on your application form.

Do you meet the nationality requirements for this post? https://www.ukhsa.reed.com/

The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact UKHSA Public Accountability Unit via email:Complaints1@ukhsa.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Educated to post-graduate level in any social or natural science discipline or significant experience of working at a similar level.
• Extensive experience of qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation methods
• Significant experience of successfully operating in a complex / politically sensitive and challenging.
• Applied experience with health or humanitarian organisations in designing, implementing and overseeing monitoring and evaluation tasks in the health sector.
• Understanding of current Monitoring & Evaluation trends and especially Monitoring & Evaluation systems in development organizations including setting both process and outcome indicators.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and application of several quantitative and qualitative methods used for Monitoring and evaluation.
• Understanding of public sector, Global Public Health infrastructure especially in Low and Middle income countries.
• Use a high level of communication skills to communicate technical Monitoring & Evaluation issues.
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills and Experience of setting up and implementing internal
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans, manage projects and resource requirements accordingly.
• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.

Desirable

• Understanding of public sector, Global Public Health infrastructure especially in Low and Middle income countries.
• Experience of developing and presenting complex quantitative and qualitative data in visually engaging ways for non-technical audiences.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

UKHSA

10 South Colonnade

Canary Wharf

E14 5EA

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)