Evaluation Project Manager

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent and 5 years of professional experience

• Knowledge and experience in substantive areas of opioids, behavioral health, and developmental disabilities.
• Knowledge of scripting languages like R, Python, querying languages like SQL, and other tools to produce reports and perform meaningful quantitative or qualitative analyses addressing impactful business issues or questions.

• Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in applied research, program evaluation, and project leadership, including the ability to independently direct complex, multifaceted research, evaluation, and implementation initiatives.
• Knowledge and skills in designing, developing, and maintaining interactive dashboards, visualizations and reports in Power BI to monitor implementation, performance, and outcomes.
• Knowledge of DAX functions, Power Query, Power Automate, and integration with other business systems to create impactful visualizations, reports, and dashboards.
• Knowledge of scripting languages like R or Python, querying languages like SQL and other tools like Power BI or Excel to produce reports and perform meaningful quantitative or qualitative analyses addressing impactful business issues or questions.
• Ability to integrate, clean and analyze data to synthesize business insights with subject-matter expertise to aid in business decision-making.
• Advanced knowledge of research and program evaluation methodologies with the ability to provide expert guidance to project staff, state agencies, and external partners.
• Demonstrated leadership and supervisory skills, including the ability to direct and evaluate the work of professional staff, assign responsibilities, establish performance expectations, manage competing priorities, and ensure successful completion of project milestones and deliverables.
• Knowledge and experience in substantive areas of opioids, behavioral health, developmental disabilities.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to represent the project with state leadership and diverse stakeholders, exercise independent judgment in resolving complex programmatic issues, analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data, and communicate findings and recommendations to technical, policy, and non-technical audiences.

• Work for long periods on a computer.
• Driving as needed to perform job duties.

• Lead implementation of activities across multiple projects, including evaluation activities, timelines, milestones, deliverables, reporting requirements, and continuous quality improvement.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks and implementation challenges, develop proposed solutions, and communicate status and needs to project leadership and stakeholders.
• Supervise researchers and students, as assigned, including coordinating their work, providing guidance, and monitoring completion of assigned tasks.
• Maintain project documentation and coordinate communications and administrative requirements to support accurate, timely completion of project activities.

• Create reports, visualizations, dashboards, and metrics that monitor implementation, performance and outcomes to provide business insight and aid in business decision-making.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to better understand valuable objectives and KPIs and to design relevant reports and dashboards.
• Use scripting languages like R or Python, querying languages like SQL and other tools like Power BI or Excel to produce reports and perform meaningful quantitative or qualitative analyses addressing impactful business issues or questions.
• Integrate data from relevant sources, verify data quality, and present measures and trends in formats that stakeholders can use to track progress and inform decisions.
• Combine these reports with subject-matter expertise to deliver insightful takeaways and advice.

• Lead the development of evaluation frameworks, research questions, indicators, data collection instruments, and monitoring systems to assess project implementation and outcomes.
• Implement applied research, program evaluation, training, and technical assistance activities across funded projects.
• Prepare human subjects' applications, coordinate recruitment, and collect data through surveys, interviews, focus groups, program reports, administrative datasets, and other appropriate methods.
• Manage, clean, and analyze qualitative and quantitative data, including large or complex datasets when applicable, to synthesize trends and findings to aid in decision making.
• Develop recommendations for policymakers, funders, program administrators, providers, and community stakeholders.

• Prepare project status reports, evaluation reports, executive summaries, conference presentations, manuscripts, data briefs, infographics, and other scholarly and applied
  products that clearly communicate project activities, findings, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Review deliverables for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and consistency, and ensure they are submitted on schedule and meet project and sponsor requirements.