Location
Croydon

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
£52,194 per annum

About the Role
We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual to join Croydon’s Culture and Creative Health teams to lead on evaluation of these two wide-ranging and ambitious programmes.

Creative Health
Working closely with Croydon’s Public Health team, the Creative Health team supports local artists and organisations to expand delivery of this crucial work through four main strands:
- Creative Health Network: providing networking opportunities, free training, fundraising support and strategic oversight to 170+ individuals and organisations interested in Creative Health in Croydon
- Community Grants: delivering grant schemes to provide seed-funding to support local Creative Health events and projects
- Targeted Interventions: managing the development of new Creative Health interventions tackling complex local priorities with cross-sector stakeholders
- Advocating for the Sector: linking with Health, Social Care and other partners to increase support, uptake and alignment of Creative Health initiatives with the broadest range of stakeholders

Evaluation of this programme includes measuring the impact of these interventions for participating residents and engaging with community, cultural, health and care partners to evaluate the growth and experiences of the local sector.

Cultural Activations
The Culture team delivers an annual programme of festivals, events, grants, commissions and public realm interventions to support the regeneration of Croydon town centre.

With a strategic focus to develop pride in Croydon, attract more people to the town centre and support economic growth through cultural activations and engagement, evaluation of this programme includes engagement with audiences, community groups, cultural delivery partners, local businesses and artists, alongside analysis of high street datasets to assess impact.

Role Summary
The Culture & Creative Health Evaluation Lead will review and develop current evaluation practices across both programmes, ensuring robust evidence-based frameworks and data to assess impact and monitor outcomes. This role will lead on-the-ground data collection for events and advise and train funded partners on monitoring, reporting and evaluation for their own projects.

The role also involves managing reporting to funders across both programmes.

The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of cultural and creative health delivery and evaluation practice, with experience applying these in community contexts. Flexibility and adaptability in methodologies to best fit project needs while ensuring robust data and evaluation outputs are essential. Strong digital and analytical skills are required to analyse complex data sets, reporting tools and multiple sources of information.

Experience working with a broad range of partners and culturally diverse communities with different needs is essential. The candidate must have strong relationship-building skills and be confident and proactive in engaging with people. Experience working with and/or advocating for arts and cultural activities with health, social care and other statutory services is required, including the ability to translate and communicate data in diverse ways to meet the expectations of different sectors.

As part of a small team, the candidate must be able to work proactively and independently, taking ownership of monitoring and reporting outputs across the programme.

This role offers an opportunity to make a significant difference in London’s most populous borough by demonstrating the impact of the arts on health, wellbeing and economic growth.

Experience
Proven experience in cultural and creative health delivery and evaluation practice, especially in community contexts. Experience working with a broad range of partners and culturally diverse communities. Demonstrated ability to work with health, social care and statutory services, advocating for arts and cultural activities. Skilled in data collection, analysis, reporting and communicating complex information to diverse audiences.

About you
Passionate, enthusiastic and flexible with strong relationship-building skills. Confident and proactive in engaging with people from diverse backgrounds. Able to adapt methodologies to meet project needs while ensuring robust evaluation outputs. Self-motivated and able to work independently within a small team environment. Strong digital and analytical skills to manage complex data sets and reporting tools.

Qualifications
Not explicitly stated but relevant qualifications or demonstrable experience in evaluation, cultural health, public health, or related fields would be advantageous.