Research and Evaluation Assistant

This is a remote position.

About our Client:

Our client is a fast-paced, collaborative consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC, with a team and clients all over the nation. They lean into one another and base their expertise and logistics on evaluation. With learning and strategy, this requires people to be outgoing, proactive, and communicative. They make data and information meaningful, accessible, and actionable with learning organizations and the communities that they love. They largely work in Philanthropy with Foundations and Nonprofits.

About the position:

Currently, they are looking for a (new or emerging) Research and Evaluation Assistant who will bring their qualitative, quantitative, and/or mixed methods skills with drive and energy to support the firm. As the ideal candidate, you will combine your technical skills with live experience and a commitment to make data and information accessible to priority communities and learning organizations. Along with the technical experience, this position requires reliability, flexibility, and a learning (plus) action posture to be responsive to the firm's evolving project needs. You will do initial research pulls, lit reviews, policy scans, collect, clean and code data, identify major emerging themes, and translate those insights through writing and visualization. Our client applies critical frameworks, approaches, and methodologies to integrate equitable, liberatory, and/or transformational principles into all phases of their work. You will examine our and clients backgrounds, beliefs, and biases to support the development of designs and protocols. In this remote, full-time, US-based position, you will thrive independently and with a team. You will have a flexible approach to challenges in a fast-paced, creative, remote virtual environment. If you are adept at data cleaning and are eager to enhance the capacity of a growing evaluation firm, this opportunity is right for you.

Responsibilities as our Research and Evaluation Assistant: Additional day-to-day tasks will be discussed during the second interview with the company s Hiring Manager.

Research and Evaluation

• Support the analysis, use, research and development of culturally responsive and racially equitable practice with clients
  
• Collect, clean, and organize qualitative with quantitative, and mixed methods data for analysis and reporting
  
• Produce detailed notes from client meetings, including top-line summaries, next steps and action items, themes, and additional summary reporting for evaluative insights
  
• Identify innovative program evaluation approaches, data visualization techniques, and participatory and collaborative interactive designs to enhance the robustness and utility of evaluation activities and findings
  
• Participate in technical delivery of evaluation tasks, including but not limited to the development of measures and indicators tables/menus, evaluation, learning and/or strategy frameworks, theories of change, logic models, roadmaps; development of data collection tools, conducting data collection and analysis, and report drafting, and slide deck creation including narrative and graphical components
  
• Conduct data pulls, literature reviews, policy scans, and rapid desk research
  

Program & Personnel Support

• Support projects and project teams including client and partner meeting, webinar, and workshop facilitation
  
• Support day-to-day activities of program evaluation teams, including assistance with scopes of work activities, maintaining technical integrity of the work and deliverables, and contributing to quality deliverables
  
• Monitor and support contractual reporting requirements
  
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with clients and partners always
  

Requirements

The qualifications we need- Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in a related field (research, evaluation, statistics, social sciences, economics, public policy, public health, education)
  
• At least one year of work experience preferred (but not required) supporting at least one evaluation from design, to data collection and analysis, to reporting and dissemination
  
• At least one year of experience working for a foundation, nonprofit, or research and evaluation consulting firm with demonstrated project experience
  
• Knowledgeable with research methods, research and evaluation study design
  
• At least one year of experience with qualitative data collection, cleaning, analysis and manipulation in MaxQDA or equivalent qualitative analysis software, quantitative data collection, cleaning, analysis and manipulation in Jamovi or equivalent analysis software
  
• Proficient with survey development, administration, and analysis
  
• Proficient with report design, training and workshop facilitation
  
• At least one year of experience with team and client relationship management
  
• Intermediate skills in Google Suite (docs, sheets, slides, forms, jamboard), Microsoft Office (word, excel, access, power-point), and Adobe Creative Commons, Canva or other graphic design programs
  
• Research and evaluation experience working on cross sector funded projects, and with foundations, nonprofits, community-based organizations and/or private partners
  
• Proficient with online software such as Asana, BQE Core
  

The Skills we need:

• Ability to use multiple CRREE tools, methods and approaches to complete data collection, analysis and sense-making work that reflect a full range of project partners
  
• Strong organizational, analytical, research, and attention-to-detail skills with proven multi-tasking experience and the ability to adhere to tight deadlines
  
• Strong writing and document management skills with the ability to write clearly and summarize complex information for varied audiences, along with masterful note-taking skills
  
• Trustworthy and reliable with proven ability to manage sensitive information
  
• Creative, flexible and resourceful problem solver with an eye towards proactive systems-building for organizational growth
  
• Ability to work productively in a web-based environment, both independently and in teams, to accomplish tasks simultaneously and manage multiple deadlines
  
• Proactive communicator who is responsive to feedback, collaborative, and a team player
  
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to multiple information systems and technologies
  
• Committed to promoting liberation and the mission, vision, and values of the organization
  
• Ability to empathize with those funding, creating, and being served by organizational programming and projects
  
• Ability to be self-directed and self-motivated, adhering to all required deadlines
  
• Ability to take complete ownership of projects (start to finish)
  

Benefits

The salary, benefits, schedule and perks offered: (Additional information about the benefits and perks will be discussed during the interview process.)

• Yearly Range: $50,000 - $55,000
  
• Fully-remote with occasional travel required depending on client engagement
  
• Full-time position
  
• PTO includes: 11 paid holidays, 15 days of paid time off
  
• Benefits include: Health, Dental, and Vision
  
• Perks include: 401K, Short-term and Long-term disability, Life Insurance and Wellness Resources