Evaluation Lead Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario

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Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO ) is a network of 32 Integrated Youth Services (IYS) hub networks that currently operate in over 40 communities where young people ages 12 to 25 years have walk-in access to youth-centered community-based mental health and wellness services. YWHO engages youth family members service providers and other partners through a co-creation process enhancing the relevance acceptability and youth friendliness of services. The hubs are provincially consistent in core features and locally led and adapted to offer and connect to a range of evidence- based servicesmental health care substance use health services primary care education employment housing peer support family support and care navigationin youth-friendly spaces. Outcomes are rigorously evaluated within and across hubs focusing on positive outcomes in areas of wellness important to youth and their families.

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Position Description:

The YWHO Provincial Office (PO) is currently seeking an experienced Evaluation Lead for a full-time permanent position. This role will play a critical part in evaluating a number of initiatives across the YWHO network and enhancing the quality of care provided to young people across Ontario. Reporting directly to the Manager of Evaluation the Evaluation Lead will collaborate closely with the YWHO PO to develop and oversee the day-to-day implementation of rigorous equity-driven evaluation projects ensuring the effective use of evaluation processes and findings. A key focus of this role will be building evaluation capacity across the YWHO Network engaging project partners and leading discussions with advisory committees working groups and other partners to support high-quality evaluation activities within all evaluation projects. The Evaluation Lead will have demonstrated experience in planning and overseeing the day-to-day activities of complex evaluation projects along with a passionate commitment to ensuring evaluation practices are rooted in appropriate knowledge and theory including the wisdom and expertise that comes from equity-deserving communities and people with lived experience. They will have an active interest in mental health and have worked with health care data including assessment and clinical data.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Provide evaluation leadership for projects by guiding the design implementation and oversight of evaluation activities ensuring methodological rigour equity-focused approaches and the integration of evaluation into the learning health system to inform decision-making and improve services.
• Coordinate activities related to the implementation of evaluation plans including ensuring that the project team is meeting their accountabilities timelines and reporting requirements.
• Develop and prepare high-quality evaluation reports and other knowledge products.
• Collaborate with the YWHO Network to support the identification development and implementation of meaningful actions to strengthen equitable anti-racist and anti-oppressive actions.
• Build relationships across the YWHO Network and other IYS partners to ensure evaluation projects are responsive to the needs of partners and grounded in best practices.
• Support regular and strategic communication with a range of partners to enable transparency and trust.
• 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 seek 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 etc.).
• Support high-quality data governance and reporting.
• Engage with relevant partners to understand existing challenges and opportunities for improvement.
• Build evaluation capacity across the YWHO Network through consultations training and knowledge exchange activities fostering a shared understanding of evaluation practices strengthening the ability to engage in high-quality equity-driven evaluation and supporting the integration of evaluation within YWHOs learning health system.

• A Masters degree in Public Health Social or Behavioral Sciences Health Services Research or a related field from a recognized institution.
• Minimum five (5) years experience supporting and leading large-scale evaluation projects.
• Leadership experience in the mental health and substance use sector is considered an asset.
• Extensive content expertise in evaluation theory and practice qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods and equity-focused evaluation approaches.
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience leading project planning processes and overseeing the day-to-day activities of complex projects.
• 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.
• An excellent collaborator; effective at building strong internal/external relationships networks and partnerships.
• Ability to think strategically and critically to promote collaboration and change management and to embed equity practices.
• Demonstrated experience engaging 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 the ability to work independently.
• Credentialed Evaluator designation from the Canadian Evaluation Society is an asset.
• Bilingualism and/or proficiency in a second language is an asset.