Evidence Uptake and Learning Manager (Maternity cover)
| Posting date: | 20 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | £38,000 to £44,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | circa £38,000 to £44,000pa |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 January 2025 |
| Location: | Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 3BW |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Sightsavers |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 2024-1444_1734689131 |
Summary
Title: Evidence Uptake and Learning Manager (Maternity cover)
Salary: circa £38,000 to £44,000pa
Location: UK remote - with occasional travel to Haywards Heath, when required
Contract: 12-month Fixed Term Contract
Hours: This is a full-time role - 35 hours per week
About the role
Sightsavers is currently seeking an experienced Evidence Uptake and Learning individual to join our team and manage a range of research evidence uptake and learning activities across the organisation.
Further duties include:
- Manage and continuously improve existing mechanisms for consolidation, storage and sharing of research evidence produced at Sightsavers, including evidence trackers, dashboards, websites, and online libraries.
- Facilitate dissemination of Sightsavers research internally to support learning; organise learning seminars and workshops; produce and disseminate the Research team's bi-monthly newsletter.
- Manage the curation of content for a research evidence library and produce a bi-monthly research evidence newsletter to facilitate the use of research evidence across the organisation.
- Working closely with the Communications team, develop new approaches and tools to disseminate research evidence, such as visual abstracts, videos, podcasts, etc., to reach wider audiences and enhance the content of the research centre website.
Skills and experience
As the successful candidate you will have a relevant Master's degree or equivalent professional experience and possess knowledge of research and evaluation methodologies.
Further requirements include:
- Demonstrable experience of using a range of approaches and tools for communicating research to a variety of audiences and encouraging uptake into decision-making
- Experience of facilitating meetings, and working in multidisciplinary and multicultural team
- Strong project management skills
To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please submit your CV via our recruitment portal and answer all application questions. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.
Please note that there will be an expectation that you can occasionally visit our modern and collaborative offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW).
We anticipate that interviews will take place during the week of 20 January 2025 and the evaluation process will include a written task and one stage interview (although depending on the strength of applications, we may need to include a second stage interview) to be completed by shortlisted candidates.
Closing date: 5 January 2025
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