Culture & Creative Health Evaluation Lead

Job Description

Salary range: Grade 12 £50.085 - £52,194 p.a. plus fantastic benefits
Contract: Fixed Term /Secondment
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Croydon

This is a 2 year fixed term contract - for internal applicants a secondment opportunity is available for 1 year with the idea to extend after the first year.

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual to join Croydon’s Culture and Creative Health teams to lead on evaluation of these two wide ranging and ambitious programmes.

Creative Health

Working closely with Croydon’s Public Health team, the Creative Health team supports local artists and organisations to expand delivery of this crucial work through four main strands:

• Creative Health Network – providing networking opportunities, free training, fundraising support and strategic oversight to 170+ individuals and organisations interested in Creative Health in Croydon
• Community Grants – delivering grant schemes to provide seed-funding to support local Creative Health events and projects
• Targeted Interventions – managing the development of new Creative Health interventions tackling complex local priorities with cross-sector stakeholders
• Advocating for the Sector – linking with Health, Social Care and other partners to increase support, uptake and alignment of Creative Health initiatives with the broadest range of stakeholders

Evaluation of this programme will include measuring the impact of these interventions for participating residents in addition to engaging with community, cultural, health and care partners to evaluate the growth and experiences of the local sector.

Cultural Activations

The Culture team delivers an annual programme of festivals, events, grants, commissions and public realm interventions to support the regeneration of Croydon town centre.

With a strategic focus to develop pride in Croydon, attract more people to the town centre and support economic growth through cultural activations and engagement, evaluation of this programme will include engagement with audiences, community groups, cultural delivery partners, local businesses and artists, in addition to working with high street datasets to analyse impact.

The role

The Culture & Creative Health Evaluation Lead will review and develop current evaluation practice across the two programmes ensuring we have robust evidence-based frameworks and data to assess impact and monitor outcomes. This role will also lead on-the-ground data collection for events and advise and train funded partners on monitoring, reporting and evaluation for their own projects.

The role will also play a key part in managing reporting to funders across both programmes.

The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of cultural and creative health delivery and evaluation practice and be experienced applying this in community contexts. You will be flexible and able to adapt methodologies to best fit the project needs whilst ensuring data and evaluation outputs are robust. Digital and analytical skills are also important to analyse complex data sets, reporting tools and multiple sources of information.

Experience working with a broad range of partners and with culturally diverse communities and people with different needs is essential and you will require good relationship building skills and be confident and proactive in engaging with people. The successful candidate will also demonstrate experience working with and/or advocating for arts and cultural activities with health, social care and other statutory services, including translating and communicating data in diverse ways to meet the expectations of different sectors.

As a small team, candidates will also need to be able to work proactively and independently, taking ownership for the monitoring and reporting outputs across the programme.

This role is an opportunity to make a huge difference in London’s most populous borough demonstrating the impact of the arts for our health, wellbeing and economic growth.

More information about the Cultural Activations programme is available here www.culturecroydon.com

A dedicated page for the Creative Health Programme and some of its work is available on https://www.culturecroydon.com/home/creative-health-croydon/

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About us

Croydon Council’s priorities

The Council balances its books, listens to residents, and delivers good sustainable services

• Get a grip on the finances and make the council financially sustainable
• Become a council which listens to, respects and works in partnership with Croydon’s diverse communities and businesses
• Strengthen collaboration and joint working with partner organisations and the voluntary, community and faith sectors
• Ensure good governance is embedded and adopt best practice
• Develop our workforce to deliver in a manner that respects the diversity of our communities

Key business plan outcomes:

• Croydon is a place of opportunity for business, earning and learning
• Children and young people in Croydon have the chance to thrive, learn and fulfil their potential
• Croydon is a cleaner, safer and healthier place, a borough we’re proud to call home
• People can lead healthier and independent lives for longer
• Croydon Council’s new ways of working

Equal Opportunities Statement

Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.

Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.