Evaluation Specialist

Job Overview

The Evaluation Specialist will be a key member of the Partner Impact and Evaluation team– within the Learning and Research Department– responsible for managing the creation and translation of research reports, tools, and findings to internal and external stakeholders. The ideal candidate is grounded in K-12 practice, detail-oriented, and energized by solving problems and sparking solutions through systems of education evaluation.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage/support an evolving suite of 6-8 educational impact/outcome quantitative and qualitative evaluations;
• Design and execute evaluations for priority customers, focusing on states, to measure the impact of purchased professional learning within the implementations and in conjunction with student products.
• Drive dynamic strategies that lead field-facing teams to improve their utilization of research resources;
• Collaborate within the Research department to communicate datasource needs to support quantitative evaluation analyses;
• Serve as a subject-matter expert in partnership with other team members to develop evaluations that provide recommendations for implementation improvement across district and state implementations.
• Flexibly serve and support the Sales and Implementation teams as research and evaluation questions and needs arise from the field via email and phone consultations.

Job Requirements

• Master’s degree in educational evaluation, social sciences, measurement, statistics, or a related field preferred;
• 5+ years of research, evaluation, school/ district data leadership, or relevant experience;
• Demonstrated experience building presentations, data visualizations, or infographics for diverse audiences.  Must be open to learning new data visualization tools.
• Demonstrated ability to translate non-technical questions into data-based evaluation solutions, with portfolio analysis and detailed progress-monitoring reports;
• Enjoy creating solutions for other teams and then measuring the impact of the solutions through layers of people and metrics;
• Understands and can select and use statistical techniques to identify the “story” behind student and educator data, including descriptive statistics, correlations, regressions.
• Strong understanding of the evaluation needs of large school districts and/or state departments of education;
• Experience or ability to quickly build knowledge in program evaluation, K-12 education, technology, or literacy
• Experience or interest in creating instruments or conducting data collection, including surveys, focus groups/interviews, and analyzing qualitative data
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently with high quality results on projects with short turnaround times;
• Thrive in being innovative and flexible in managing solutions and in problem solving.

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