Evidence Uptake and Learning Manager (Maternity Cover) at Sightsavers

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. This role is key in ensuring that evidence from research and other data sources is easily accessible, appropriately stored, and used by different stakeholders within and outside Sightsavers.
• High quality evidence and evidence uptake are critical for our programmes and advocacy. We hold an independent research organisation status by UK Research and Innovation and make significant investments in generating evidence from research, evaluations and routine programme systems.

Responsibilities

The post holder will work closely with different teams across the organisation to ensure that effective user-friendly mechanisms and systems for evidence uptake and learning are in place and widely used.

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.
• Contribute to the development of technical documents to disseminate research results, such as research summaries, peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs and blogs.
• Contribute to the implementation of Sightsavers’ strategic organisational learning framework, including the design and piloting of processes and tools to embed learning in projects.
• Contribute to the consolidation of evidence to feed into Sightsavers’ thematic learning questions, improving organisational understanding of key thematic challenges and ensuring the learning informs programme design and adaptation.

Skills and Experience

As the successful candidate you will have a relevant Master’s degree or equivalent professional experience, possess knowledge of research and evaluation methodologies, and be able to travel internationally for up to 12 weeks during the contracted period.

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 teams
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Written and spoken French and/or Portuguese (desirable)
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong project management skills
• Relationship building skills with internal and external audiences – a highly collaborative approach, and willingness to adopt a ‘customer focus’
• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities.
• An understanding and commitment to accessible practices.