Senior Evaluation Manager – Sponsored Research

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and oversee evaluation learning agendas that identify key questions, evidence needs, measurement strategies, and milestones.

• Ensure that evaluations address strategic, programmatic, implementation, practice, and policy inquiries.

• Provide expert guidance on evaluation design, measurement, quantitative and qualitative methods, analytic strategies, and interpretation.

• Critically assess methodological approaches, assumptions, findings, and limitations.

• Act as the primary liaison between Youth Villages and external evaluators and research collaborators.

• Coordinate evaluation efforts among Youth Villages teams, external evaluators, research partners, and collaborators.

• Manage project plans, timelines, deliverables, dependencies, responsibilities, decisions, and communications across various evaluation workstreams.

• Offer partners feedback, decisions, contextual information, data coordination, and access to staff and stakeholders.

• Maintain documentation of research questions, methodological choices, findings, open questions, and next steps.

• Identify competing priorities, barriers, and delays, assessing their implications for commitments, staffing, budgets, and timelines.

• Lead partnership check-ins and evaluate the effectiveness and progress of partnerships toward shared goals.

• Integrate findings from various evaluation studies, administrative data analyses, implementation measures, qualitative research, and other evidence sources.

• Coordinate complementary research and evidence-building initiatives to align questions, measures, timelines, and interpretations.

• Analyze evidence across implementation, program outcomes, organizational and system change, and broader child welfare results.

• Identify convergence, inconsistency, and uncertainty across evidence sources and formulate appropriate next questions.

• Lead the creation of integrated evaluation products that synthesize findings from research partners and data sources.

• Assist teams in determining whether strategies should be continued, enhanced, adapted, or reconsidered.

• Translate findings into implications for implementation, scaling, program improvement, practice, policy, and future research.

• Create presentations, executive summaries, reports, and other evidence products for leadership, practitioners, funders, public-system partners, and non-technical audiences.

• Coordinate the interpretation and dissemination of findings among research partners and Youth Villages teams.

• Synthesize lessons learned across projects and contribute to organizational learning regarding effective implementation and scaling.

⛳️ Requirements

• A doctorate in psychology, public policy, public administration, social work, epidemiology, or a related social or behavioral science field is mandatory.

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience is required.

• Comprehensive knowledge of research design, quantitative methods, program evaluation, and qualitative or mixed-methods research.

• Proven ability to critically evaluate research methods, measurement strategies, analytic approaches, and the strengths and limitations of evidence.

• Familiarity with implementation science and/or applied research methods is essential.

• Experience in evaluating complex interventions, implementation efforts, or systems-change initiatives is preferred.

• Strong project management and organizational skills are necessary.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple research workstreams, partners, timelines, and priorities.

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with researchers, organizational leaders, practitioners, and other stakeholders.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to translate technical information for non-technical audiences.

• Experience working with child welfare systems or other public human-services systems is highly preferred.

• A secure, private home office with a reliable high-speed internet connection is required.

• Ability to remain seated in a stationary position for extended periods.

• Frequent and continuous use of hands, wrists, and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other standard office equipment.

• Continuous near vision is required for reading computer screens and documents.

• Constant ability to hear and speak clearly during meetings and phone calls.

• Occasional movement about the workspace.

• Occasional lifting or carrying of light office supplies, files, or laptop equipment, typically weighing less than 15 pounds.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Prescription Drug Coverage, and Vision.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Two weeks of paid vacation for full-time employees and one week for part-time employees.

• Twelve paid sick days each year.

• Eleven paid holidays.

• Paid Parental Leave available.

• Mileage and Cell Phone Reimbursement (when applicable).

• Tuition reimbursement and supervision for licensure.

• Opportunities for growth and development through continuous training.

• Clinical and administrative advancement opportunities.