Training and Capacity Building Coordinator: Islington HDRC

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our dynamic Evidence Islington team as the Training and Capacity Building Coordinator.

Evidence Islington is a NIHR-funded Health Determinants Research Collaboration that aims to improve how local authorities gather, link and use evidence to inform decision-making and practice, with a particular focus on wider determinants of health (e.g. housing, environment). This initiative is a collaboration between Islington council, Healthwatch Islington, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College London. We are curious, collaborative and committed to producing efficient, effective and timely evidence to inform policy and practice, and to meaningful engagement with residents and VCS organisations throughout our work.

You will be responsible for building sustainable research and analysis capacity across the Council and with partners by creating a learning and development offer to improve opportunities to build capability for research skills and practice for colleagues and partners. You will have an exciting and fundamental role in enabling officers and local councillors to become ‘evidence confident’ by building sustainable evidence user capability and developing the knowledge and skills needed to choose and use rigorous evidence across our workforce. You will be developing and overseeing the research training and development programme for staff, working in close collaboration with our partner NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North Thames Academy and the Council’s Organisational Development team.

You will play an essential part in ensuring that Evidence Islington develops a research-informed, data-driven workforce and culture.

We are looking for someone with:

• Proven ability to teach at any level within applied health/methods-based research and across a range of subjects at a more introductory level

• Experience of presenting applied health research and/or research around wider determinants of health to a range of audiences including those who deliver or commission public sector services and lay audiences

• Experience of developing (and delivering) innovative training and courses, course materials and methods of delivery

• Proven ability to support others to upskill and achieve their goal or develop in either a formal or informal pathway

• Experience working in multi-disciplinary and cross-organisational teams

• Strong communication skills. 

Interviews are scheduled for the 18^{th of} September

To learn more about the role, contact Charlotte Ashton, Evidence Islington Programme Director (email: ei@islington.gov.uk)

Working for the team, service and our organisation

Islington is a place rich with diversity and culture. As a council our sense of purpose couldn’t be clearer: we serve. It’s in the logo. We are committed to challenging inequality in the borough and as one of the largest employers we know that to look after the place and the planet, we have to look after our people. Together we can change the future.

We are determined to create a more equal Islington, where everyone who lives here has an equal chance to thrive. 

To do this, everyone who works at Islington Council lives by a set of values which guide us in everything that we do: collaborative, ambitious, resourceful, and empowering. They spell out ‘CARE’, which is what we think public service is all about. 

Please apply using the link below and Additional information about working at the council can be found at: https://jobs.islington.gov.uk/vacancies/783/training-and-capacity-building-coordinator-islington-hdrc.html 

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