Senior Manager, Qualitative Evaluation and Insights

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

📋 Description

• Lead qualitative research and evaluation for consulting projects at colleges and universities.

• Gather and code data from interviews, focus groups, and open-ended surveys using CDI’s established coding frameworks.

• Ensure coding quality and assist the Research team with updates to the codeframe.

• Organize data collection logistics in collaboration with campus partners, aligning with the academic calendar.

• Analyze both qualitative and quantitative data to uncover themes, patterns, and insights.

• Take ownership of reports, memos, presentations, and narratives directed at clients.

• Deliver findings and recommendations to external stakeholders.

• Develop CDI’s methodology for evaluating campus initiatives and the Institutional Change Model.

• Conduct interviews and create qualitative case studies.

• Identify key institutional highlights for Culture Change projects in collaboration with Communications.

• Provide guidance to colleagues and partners on assessing organizational culture and fostering dialogue and open inquiry.

• Represent CDI by cultivating trust and relationships with campus partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of hands-on qualitative research experience, or a graduate degree with significant fieldwork.

• Proven experience in conducting interviews and facilitating focus groups.

• Proficient in coding large datasets consistently using a codebook.

• Experience with multi-coder quality assurance or inter-rater reliability is highly beneficial.

• Strong analytic writing abilities.

• Capability to merge survey findings with qualitative data.

• Experience in assessing organizational culture through interviews, documentation, and survey data.

• Ability to collaborate with institutional research, academic leadership, and student affairs.

• Good judgment across ideological differences and a grasp of nonpartisan restraint.

• Familiarity with qualitative analysis software; preference for Dovetail, but experience with Dedoose, NVivo, ATLAS.ti, or MAXQDA is also welcome.

• Ability to leverage AI tools to aid in coding and drafting while maintaining human interpretation.

• Must reside in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO), along with 13 company holidays.

• Health, vision, and dental insurance plans, with CDI contributing to monthly premiums.

• 401(k) plan with a 100% match on contributions, up to 3% of salary.

• Generous annual budget for professional development.

• Up to $500 reimbursed for home office equipment purchases.

• Up to $50 per month reimbursed for home internet or cell phone expenses.

• A mission-driven work environment that promotes intellectual humility, continuous improvement, and open-mindedness.