Job Category: Health Services

Division & Section: Public Health, PH Communicable Disease Control Work Location: Toronto Public Health Headquarters, 277 Victoria Street

Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Permanent

Hourly Rate: $48.49 - $53.14

Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Number of Positions Open: 2

Posting Period: 16-JAN-2024 to 30-JAN-2024

Program Evaluator works collaboratively on multidisciplinary teams to provide continuous quality improvement and evaluative support to TPH programs and the division.

Major Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with program staff and management in the planning and evaluation of TPH programs
• Develops and reviews program and divisional logic models
• Analyzes needs and develops assessment tools
• Establishes and maintains a framework and standards for program evaluation in collaboration with other program evaluators within the division
• Designs and tests evaluation and applied research strategies and tools
• Develops plans for the implementation of the evaluation strategy in collaboration with internal and external groups
• Researches, reviews and implements policy for evaluation and summarizes the results
• Plans and implements educational activities on program evaluation
• Participate in the development and implementation of surveys
• Evaluates public health strategies and programs, including efficiency, processes, outcomes and cost effectiveness
• Performs qualitative and quantitative analyses and summarizes the results
• Prepares evaluation reports and presents evaluation report findings
• Prepares reports for management staff as well as the Board of Health, City Council and its committees, and external organizations
• Contributes to program planning
• Represents Toronto Public Health at conferences and workshops
• Identifies research opportunities and funding sources that support public health practice, prepares and submits grant applications
• Collects, analyzes and disseminates literature pertaining to program evaluation
• Consults on day-to-day evaluation and applied research problems

Key Qualifications:

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:

1. Master's degree in Health Sciences, Applied Social Sciences, Health Administration or an equivalent combination of a baccalaureate degree and extensive experience relevant to the primary duties of the position.
2. Considerable experience with evaluability assessments and process and outcome evaluations, including the use of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
3. Considerable experience as an evaluator in a public health or similar setting.
4. Considerable experience with microcomputer systems, database management and statistical packages used for data analysis in evaluation.

5. Considerable experience in preparing well written reports on complex evaluation projects and effectively presenting on them.

6. Considerable experience managing concurrent projects utilizing excellent organizational, planning and project management skills.

You must also have:

Interpersonal skills and the ability to work co-operatively with others in a multidisciplinary team setting with a broad range of program staff, management, senior management and technical experts.

Credentialed Evaluator designation, is an asset.

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Accommodation

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