Consultant, Evaluation

Position Description

PSSP is currently seeking a full-time, permanent Consultant, Evaluation reporting to the Manager, Evaluation Clinical Programs and Community Initiatives.

The primary role of the Consultant, Evaluation is to provide skilled project leadership and evaluation expertise on complex evaluation projects.

They will be responsible for developing and overseeing the day-to-day implementation of rigorous equity-driven evaluation projects, ensuring effective use of evaluation processes and findings.

A key focus of this role will be engaging internal and external project stakeholders, leading discussions with advisory committees, working groups, and external leadership to engage in high quality evaluation activities through the consistent application of effective evaluation frameworks, approaches and best practices within all evaluation projects.

The Consultant, Evaluation will have demonstrated experience planning and overseeing the day-to-day activities of complex evaluation projects, along with a passionate commitment to ensuing evaluation practices are rooted in appropriate knowledge and theory, including the wisdom, analysis and expertise that comes from equity deserving communities and people with lived experience of mental health and addictions challenges and intersectional forms of structural marginalization.

Candidates with significant experience in performance measurement, continuous quality improvement, and analyzing and interpreting population health data are encouraged to apply.

The Consultant, Evaluation, requires strong communication and teamwork skills, to enable productive, ongoing collaboration with a diverse group of individuals across multiple roles and departments at PSSP / CAMH as well as with external partners and collaborators.

The Consultant, Evaluation and Knowledge Synthesis, will support a healthy workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork and complies with all applicable standards and requirements.

For this role, we strongly encourage applications from Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people who are reflective of intersectional experiences (i.

e., 2SLGBTQ+, Muslim, neurodevelopmental differences, living with a disability, etc.). This position can be located anywhere in Ontario.

Responsibilities

The Consultant, Evaluation will :

• Lead the development and execution of evaluation plans for diverse, complex evaluation projects by drawing on professional expertise and judgement to apply appropriate analytical models, frameworks and methodologies to evaluation questions and program needs.
• Serve as the subject matter expert and liaison in facilitating complex, highly integrated, evaluation-focused collaboration initiatives across PSSP, within CAMH, and with external partners.
• Accountable for identifying potential evaluation users and working with them to ensure that deliverables are developed and executed in a manner which supports potential evaluation uses
• Coordinate activities related to the implementation of evaluation plans (e.g., collecting data) including ensuring that the project team is meeting their accountabilities, timelines, and reporting requirements while engaging in effective and equitable evaluation practices
• Develop and prepare high-quality reports and other knowledge products
• Work in consultation with Senior Consultants and Managers to cultivate multi-stakeholder relationships, including organizing and convening partners, stakeholders, and People with Lived Experience (PWLE), caregivers and system users to support the identification, development, and implementation of meaningful actions to strengthen equitable, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive actions in PSSP and PSSP-led projects.
• Build relationships across PSSP, CAMH and with external partners involved in project-specific work to ensure evaluation projects are responsive to the needs of partners and stakeholders and grounded in best practices.
• Support regular and strategic communication with a range of partners and stakeholders to enable transparency and trust.
• Coordinate and provide secretariat support for steering committees and advisory councils as required.
• Develop or adapt research and evaluation methods, tools (e.g. : surveys, interview guides), and techniques based on best practices and innovations.
• Work with project leads and the management team to synthesize complex or competing evaluation needs and to help develop scopes of work, work plans, timelines and business cases.
• Promote the use of continuous quality improvement as an essential component of evaluation practice and seeks opportunities to contribute to the emerging body of knowledge / evidence in evaluation (e.

g. submission of peer-reviewed journal articles; development of, and participation in grants; partnership with stakeholders holding evaluation expertise).

• Support high-quality data governance and reporting across the portfolio
• Facilitate meetings and engagement sessions with teams and stakeholders to develop appropriate risk responses through mitigation and contingency planning.

Qualifications and Requirements

The successful candidate will have :

• A Master’s degree in evaluation, public health, health policy / administration, health studies, women’s studies, mad studies, disability studies or a related field from a recognized institution
• Minimum seven (7) years’ experience working in the mental health and substance use system supporting and leading large-scale evaluation projects (experience in other sectors will be accepted).
• Minimum two (2) years’ leadership experience in the mental health and substance use sector
• Extensive content expertise in evaluation theory and practice, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods, and equity-focused evaluation approaches with a proven track record of applying project management principles and methodologies to support large-scale projects.
• Experience designing logic models and theories of change, sourcing validated assessment tools, conducting interviews and focus groups, designing surveys, and identifying secondary data sources
• Experience using primary or secondary qualitative and quantitative data sources to highlight equity gaps and identify solutions and strategies in health or social service delivery settings.
• Experience with performance measurement, continuous quality improvement, and population health data is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading project planning processes and overseeing the day-to-day activities of complex projects.
• Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and leadership to steering committees, advisory circles, and other types of governance structures.
• Experience leading equity analysis in large-scale system change initiatives within the health system, including leading teams with system change initiatives through facilitation, problem solving, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining stakeholder relationships with government, community agencies and system partners;

exceptional ability to build and strengthen relationships with people from diverse cultural and social backgrounds.

• An excellent collaborator; effective at building strong internal / external relationships, networks and partnerships, while managing stakeholder expectations and risks
• Ability to think strategically and critically, to promote collaboration and change management, and to embed equity practices across system change projects and initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate and promote collaboration and change management, and work both independently and within a team environment.
• Effective facilitation, persuasion and negotiation skills to achieve consensus, resolve conflict and achieve desired outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience engaging marginalized communities adults, youth, and families with lived experience of racism and other intersecting forms of oppression in a mental health / substance use context.

Equivalent experience in another sector will also be accepted

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, coaching and mentoring skills coupled with the ability to work effectively as part of a team, and ability to work independently.
• Credentialed Evaluator designation from the Canadian Evaluation Society is an asset.
• Bilingualism (Ojibway / English, Mohawk / English, French / English, etc.) and / or proficiency in a second language is an asset.
Il y a plus de 30 jours