Full-Time Senior Director of Research, Evaluation, and Program Development
Job Description
YWCA Kalamazoo is on a Mission!
At YWCA Kalamazoo, we look for people who want to make a difference and do something that MATTERS. YWCA Kalamazoo is your ally who is on a mission to eliminate racism, empower women, stand up for social justice, help families, and strengthen communities. When you work for YWCA Kalamazoo, you become part of a worldwide movement: eliminating racism and empowering women.
Simply put, YWCA Kalamazoo draws together members who strive to create opportunities for women’s growth, leadership, and power to attain a common vision of peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all people.
Our employee-centric philosophies focus on taking care of you and promoting a healthy work-life balance. We offer a benefits package tailored with YOU in mind!
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
PRIMARY FUNCTION: The Senior Director of Research, Evaluation, and Program Development is a strategic executive leader. This position serves as an inspiring thought partner, supporting YW programs to integrate research and evaluation into practice, and supporting the sector to benefit from the YW’s findings.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s degree in social work or related field required, including applied research, OR
- PhD strongly preferred in social work, early childhood, public health or related field
- Experience bridging the research-practice divide through implementation science and practice
- 10+ years of developing and executing social service programs
- Personal or professional experience related to at least one of the agency’s service pillars
- Demonstrated experience in all of the following: designing and executing impact evaluations; strategic planning; personnel supervision and growth; conducting needs assessments; facilitating research partnerships; leading direct service teams
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Centers anti-racism, feminism, and trauma-responsive leadership in all activities, including in leadership, partnership, and research.
- Consults on research design and implementation, including development and direct facilitation of groups, interviews, and surveys when necessary
- Collaboratively develops, manages, and forecasts departmental budget
- Serves as the principal writer for research funding opportunities
- Manages funded research projects in accordance with contractual requirements
- Collaboratively creates and executes agency-wide research, evaluation, and program development protocols
- Ensures all programs agency-wide are supported with a collaboratively created, rigorous, measurable logic model
- Ensures all tools and interventions used agency-wide are vetted and either a) evidence-based or b) if no appropriate tool/intervention exists, have an actionable plan to develop the evidence-base
- Maintains a comprehensive roster of the tools and interventions used across the agency, including confirmation (and citations) for whether the tools/interventions have been evaluated with like-populations to the communities served by YWCA Kalamazoo
- Ensures research methods deployed are an effective, rigorous blend of qualitative and quantitative methods, and that the analysis and discussion around results uses best practices
- Leads the organization’s research-to-practice strategy, including:
- In partnership with the PIs and program teams, identifies what needs assessments, evaluations, and research studies would be strategic in furthering the agency’s mission
- Identifies research/practice gaps, and ways the organization can bridge the research-practice divide internally and externally
- Ensures the strategy for organizational studies to be shared publicly for maximum impact
- Secures, facilitates, and monitors research partnerships, including developing the agency IRB process
- Directs the development and issuance of data for monthly KPI reports, annual reports, advocacy reports, and funder data reports
- Collaborates across departments to develop policy papers
- Honors and uplifts the expertise held by others
- Develops and provides senior oversight for research partnerships, including subaward management, contract performance review, and fiscal oversight
- Demonstrates consistent visibility and on-site engagement across the agency, developing the critical relationships necessary for mutual information sharing and collaborative action
- Intentionally builds partnership and relationship with personnel at all levels
- Participates in public information sharing with partners, legislators, media, conferences, and other opportunities
- Engages in weekly 1:1 supervision, committed to personal growth and coaching others in accordance with agency leadership requirements
- Develops and supports a team of specialists and principal investigators to:
- Identify relevant data trends in their pillars of service
- Effectively manage research subawards and partnerships
- Facilitate a collaborative and actionable discussion regarding what action may be needed based on data observations
- Develop and implement needs assessments, evaluations, and research studies within their target service pillar
- Support programs to translate findings into appropriate understanding of implications, collaboratively generated recommendations, and actionable steps
- Engage routinely and meaningfully in pillar operations to enhance relationship and understanding
- Produce sound, accessible research reports that further organizational and sector practice
- Conduct impact evaluations that inform the agency’s strategy to eliminate racism and empower women
- Ensure ethical practice in all aspects of research activities
- Share results in the public sphere
- Grow professionally as leaders, researchers, innovators, and collaborators
- Become leaders in bridging the research-practice divide
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
THE PERKS:
YWCA Kalamazoo partners with ADP to provide a phenomenal benefits package.
Our Core Benefits:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- Long Term Disability
- Short Term Disability
In addition to our core benefits, we also offer access to an excellent employee assistance program. We also offer tuition assistance and a GENEROUS paid time off package to our full-time employees. We are committed to supporting a healthy work-life balance and have tailored our benefits package with YOU in mind!
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY IS IMPORTANT!
As an employer, YWCA Kalamazoo encourages, welcomes, and fosters differences. It is the policy of YWCA Kalamazoo not to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin/ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, age, height, weight, familial status, veteran status, marital status, citizenship, or any other status or characteristic protected by law, in its programs, services, employment or activities. All qualified applicants will be given equal opportunity and consideration for employment.
Prior to a job offer, candidates will be required to complete a criminal record background check. Information gathered will be used for job-related purposes to the extent permitted by applicable law and will not result in an automatic disqualification from an employment opportunity.
How to Apply
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