The Director of Monitoring and Evaluation will be responsible for monitoring and assessment, research and evaluation of the results reported by United Way supported programs and initiatives. The Director will develop summaries and informational materials and strategies to communicate those results related to the CWB strategy implementation and outcomes. Additionally, the Director will guide the development of strategies that help UWGA to fill gaps in its CWB portfolio and build stakeholders' capacity to effectively implement and execute outcome evaluation processes & techniques.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Develop criteria and processes for outcome evaluation and reporting for all UW funded programs and formal partnerships.
- Work with VP Strategy & Knowledge Development to develop evaluation policy recommendations for nonprofit and other human service partners and to research and communicate outcome measurement best practices.
- Identify, recommend and monitor measures that support issues, strategies and programs connected to CWB utilizing Results Based Accountability.
- Work closely with Data Scientist to develop and manage data collection processes connected to United Way’s grant-making and demonstrate program-level outcomes.
- With the VP Strategy & Knowledge, create regional and local reports, interpreting and synthesizing program-level evaluation data for United Way leadership, staff and volunteers charged with making outcome-based funding decisions.
- Work with the Sr Director for Partner Engagement to evaluate collective impact and collaborative initiatives (Collabs).
- Guide the identification and development of strategies to fill gaps in our CWB portfolio.
- Provide staff support to the Advocacy Taskforce and Human Trafficking activities.
Educational Background:
Advanced degree in public health/public policy or social sciences field and five years’ evaluation experience
Skills/Experience:
- Demonstrated experience in designing evaluation plans in accordance with available budgets and resources, developing and applying evaluation process tools, data collection and analysis
- Strong writing and public speaking skills
- Demonstrated knowledge of human service strategies and interventions
- Ability to manage and direct multiple projects simultaneously within budget
- Knowledge of place - based evaluation very helpful
- Strong interpersonal skills in working with groups and individuals
- Ability to train large, diverse groups and to provide tailored technical assistance on building evaluation capacity
- Strong organizational skills
- Information management skills in Excel, Access or other Windows-based database structures (preferably w/statistical packages)
- Demonstrated experience in using statistical modeling to analyze and interpret data as well as experience using SPSS, SAS or other statistical program software
- Experience with qualitative and mixed methods approaches to evaluation
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jul 4 2018
Active Until:
Aug 4 2018
Hiring Organization:
United Way Worldwide
industry:
Nonprofit