Lead the design and implementation of evaluation frameworks across projects.
Provide senior oversight to evaluation staff and TTA providers, ensuring clear roles, methodological rigor, and consistency.
Manage evaluation timelines, tasks, and deliverables across multiple projects for both individual and team workloads.
Develop and refine logic models, theories of change, and evaluation designs for project initiatives.
Ensure rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods while balancing feasibility and scientific integrity.
Build and sustain collaborative relationships with external partners, addressing challenges and promoting shared understanding across organizations.
Guide the development of evaluation tools, frameworks, and resources to support workgroups, community pilots, and ZSI clients.
Translate evaluation findings into clear, actionable insights for funders, communities, behavioral health systems, and other partners, including substantive contributions to final reports and deliverables.
Represent evaluation priorities in senior-level meetings, cross-site workgroups, and external forums.
Mentor and supervise evaluation staff, fostering methodological excellence and professional growth.
Partner closely with Project Directors to align evaluation needs, staffing, and communication across project teams.
Manage competing priorities while ensuring alignment of evaluation activities across teams.

PhD in behavioral science, epidemiology, public health, community psychology, or related health/social science field
10+ years of professional evaluation experience, including program
and community-level evaluation
5+ years of project management experience, including staff supervision
Demonstrated leadership in evaluation design, with deep expertise in logic models and qualitative and mixed-methods approaches
Experience supervising or leading teams, ideally including evaluators and/or technical assistance providers
Strong project management skills, including defining roles, delegating work, and keeping complex projects on track
Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and coordinate work across multiple contracts and external partners
Experience applying multi-level, systems-based, or collective action frameworks to the design and evaluation of complex initiatives
Strong grounding in public health approaches to prevention, including population-based, systems-level, and community-driven strategies
Experience designing and delivering evaluation-focused training and technical assistance to coalitions, behavioral health systems, or community-based organizations
Excellent facilitation, collaboration, and communication skills
Strong writing and reporting abilities, with experience developing evaluation frameworks, tools, and guidance documents, and a record of published work
Proven ability to present evaluation findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Health, dental, and vision insurance
Paid holidays
Generous vacation benefits for full
and part-time employees
Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax transport benefit
Robust retirement plan with TIAA/CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association/College Retirement Equities Fund)
Paid sick time and personal time annually
Parental leave
Employee assistance program

Research Scientist – Evaluator

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