Senior Impact Officer (XN05)

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health research organization in Leeds is seeking a Senior Impact Officer to support evaluations and impact assessments. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing impact assessment methods, producing impact case studies, and providing administrative support to managers. Candidates should have a degree in a relevant field and demonstrable experience in research management or administration. This role promotes flexible teamwork and requires effective communication skills.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of research management.
• Understanding of public sector health research.
• Experience of evaluation or impact assessment.

Responsibilities

• Identify and produce impact case studies.
• Develop impact assessment methods and logic models.
• Assist in providing responses to information requests.

Skills

Good interpersonal skills

Advanced level oral and written communication skills

Ability to work flexibly

Effective liaison skills

Ability to tackle complex problems

Advanced working knowledge of word processing

Education

Degree in social science or health science

Masters Degree

Job description

Areyou interested in assessing, evidencing, and communicating the impact of NIHRsinvestment in research awards and capacity development?

TheNational Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is seeking a friendly,organised, and conscientious Senior Impact Officer to join their growing team.

The successful candidate will undertake a range ofimpact related activities, and will be comfortable working across various tasksat any one time. They will support managers with evaluations and impactassessments of NIHR schemes and programmes and to develop impact products

Main duties of the job

Beresponsible for identification and production of impact case studies, impactportfolio of NIHR Academy schemes and programmes;

Supportthe management and development of impact assessment methods and logic modelsfor the NIHR Academy programmes;

Writereports and working draft papers as required;

Assistin providing timely responses to various information requests, includingparliamentary questions. This involves researching and reporting on researchoutputs;

Beresponsible for providing administrative support to Impact Managers andAssistant Director of the Evaluation, Business Intelligence and Impact Team.

Beprepared to travel within the UK for the attendance of meetings andconferences.

About us

TheNational Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has a mission toimprove the health and wealth of the nation through research. The NIHR playsa pivotal role in attracting, training and supporting the best researchersand complements the additional NIHR investment in world-class researchfacilities and a skilled research workforce.

Thisrole is hosted by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) and delivers thework of the NIHR, leading on policy, strategy and delivery in respect ofacademic training in England and working closely with other NIHR centres andthe Science Research and Evidence (SRE) Directorate at the Department ofHealth and Social Care (DHSC).

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

SupportingImpact development and management

Responsiblefor developing standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure that robust andeffective administrative processes are used; Prepare draft guidance forImpact assessment pathways for programmes and awards;

Undertakedefined research and evaluation into NIHR Academy supported programmes asrequired;

Responsibilityfor tracking and classification of applications;

Responsibilityfor production of draft case studies, impact portfolio of NIHR Academyschemes and programmes;

SupportImpact managers liaise with external stakeholders and other funders tomonitor and track progression of NIHR Academy award holders.

Thepost holder will be required to assist the impact manager to manage change inresponse to external events and new policies; this may require thereformulation and adjustment of plans and strategies to ensure that theimpact assessments for programmes and projects in the post holders portfolioremain fit for purpose;

Supportthe management and development of impact assessment methods for the portfolioof NIHR Academy programmes;

AssistImpact Managers in planning the annual cycle and timing of Impact reports andassessments in the post holders area of responsibility;

Writingreports and working draft papers as required; and

Communicationsand Engagement

Thepost holder will:

Liaisewith queries and occasional complaints about career tracking and impactassessments by telephone, email, and in person, escalating unresolved queriesto the impact manager and assistant director as necessary

PubliciseNIHR Academy activities through attendance at some external meetings,seminars and conferences

Communicateand work with a range of people nationally at all levels of seniority bothinternal and external to the NIHR Academy, in line with DHSC policies

Developand maintain strong and positive working relationships within HigherEducation Institutions (HEIs), NHS Trusts and other health-relatedorganisations

Workclosely with the wider NIHR Academy Evaluation and Impact team to ensure thatthey have sufficient Impact information to be able to respond quickly toInformation Requests, Parliamentary questions and long term Analysis. Thisinvolves researching and reporting on research outputs

Liaisewith members of the NIHR Academy Executive Senior Management Team and AwardsManagers, and University Hospital of Leeds NHS Trust staff, in order to meetresponsibilities and undertake duties effectively

GeneralAdministrative support

Responsiblefor providing administrative support to Impact Managers and AssistantDirector of the Evaluation and Impact Team.

Person Specification

Skills & behaviours

• Good interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively as an advocate for health services research and development
• Advanced level oral and written communication skills
• Confident and comfortable when communicating to others and dealing with sensitive issues
• Ability to work flexibly as part of a team, building and maintaining good working relationships
• Effective liaison skills with the ability to deal tactfully with colleagues, senior academics, NHS managers, members of the public and various stake holders
• Assimilate information quickly, and apply knowledge quickly and effectively to new problems
• Ability to tackle complex problems, identify solutions and implement them
• Deliver work on time, to anticipate fresh demands
• Identifying opportunities and approaches to achieve goals and improve results
• Ability to plan and organise a broad range of new and ongoing activities
• Ability to prepare information and impact summaries for various audiences to often short deadlines
• A willingness to work across discipline boundaries
• Advanced working knowledge of word processing, databases, spreadsheets
• Experience of contributing to reports/papers

Qualifications

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in a social science, health science, mathematics or other relevant research methodology discipline
• Masters Degree

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of research and/or research management or demonstrable experience within a senior administrative post
• An understanding of public sector health research and its management
• An understanding of research impact assessment methods
• An understanding of quantitative and qualitative methods and data analysis
• Understanding of data protection, FOI and information management
• Experience of evaluation, research or impact assessment
• An understanding of health research capacity development