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| ID | 2023-1408 | Category | Philanthropy | Position Type | Regular Full-Time |
Title: Director of Learning and Evaluation
Group: The Beacon Fund
Reporting to: Managing Director
Salary: $150,000 - $190,000
Location: Denver
Overview:
The Beacon Fund is committed to expanding opportunities for individuals to achieve their full potential by removing systemic barriers that prevent individuals from pursuing the life they want to live and by empowering individuals to live a life of purpose, belonging, and well-being. Based in Denver, Beacon achieves its purpose through three primary initiatives: career readiness and post-secondary success; immigrant advocacy and integration; and special interest. Beacon advances the work of these initiatives through broad set of tools including philanthropic grants, investments, and advocacy support.
A core set of beliefs guide our organization: the power of partnership; a focus on belonging; humility in knowing that we do not have all the answers; respect for individuals to discover and engage in building a lifestyle of their choice; a commitment to taking risk and being catalytic; and an openness to adapt to ever-changing needs and to new ways of creating positive change.
Responsibilities:
The Beacon Fund is seeking an experienced and highly motivated leader to serve as the inaugural Director of Learning and Evaluation. The Director of Learning and Evaluation will work across Beacon to cultivate a learning mindset and to use data to produce insights that collectively influence the organization's strategy and work with partners. The Director will focus on Beacon's existing initiatives, but over time, will also support new work emerging from the Fund and its related entities. Core responsibilities will include managing data collection and analysis, facilitating learning and capacity building at all levels of the organization, providing leadership to research-related and learning grants, and helping identify and disseminate lessons learned within the team and among partners. This is a hands-on position and will require flexibility, adaptability, and a desire to learn. Experience working with both philanthropic grants and impact investments will be critical given Beacon's mixed capital approach.
Specific responsibilities will include:
Shaping what The Beacon Fund measures and tracks:
* Collaborate with grantmaking and investment colleagues to articulate and refresh their goals, hypotheses, assumptions, and theories of change
* Refine our medium-term and long-term outcome measures related to key strategy goals based on new insights
* Identify research needs and scoping and manage evaluation projects in support of learning agendas
Collecting and collating data:
* Systematically capture, track, and summarize data related to individual investment metrics, investment portfolios, and strategy-level outcomes by working closely with grantmaking and investment colleagues, third-party evaluators, and as relevant, directly with grantees and investees
* Integrate performance measures and research data into existing and/or newly established databases and reporting systems, in collaboration with grantmaking, investment, planning, and technical colleagues
* As needed, collect data from other sources to inform strategies and theories of change for core issue areas so that colleagues can understand and adapt to important trends and ideas
* As needed, provide leadership to research-related, pilot, or learning grants and investments.
Translating data into strategic insights and shared learning opportunities:
* Organize and facilitate learning conversations to help Beacon's leadership, grantmaking, and investment colleagues develop implications for strategies, theories of change, and grant or investment decisions and apply those insights to refine approaches
* Visualize data in the form of dashboards and other reporting tools
* Work in coordination with Managing Director to incorporate findings into Beacon's strategic planning
* Develop and implement knowledge-sharing tools that promote learning, dialogue, and reflection across issue areas and teams
* Foster organizational culture of learning, humility, and curiosity that builds the capacity of colleagues as they incorporate new methods of planning, assessment, and continual improvement into their work
In addition to the technical qualifications for the role (listed below), the ideal candidate will have the following professional and personal qualities, skills, and characteristics:
* Experience with a Range of Social Impact Tools: Beacon deploys grants, investments, and advocacy contributions. This individual should be comfortable working with a range of social impact tools and not focused solely on the traditional evaluation methods of philanthropic institutions.
* Communications and Translation Skills: This leader should excel at creatively exploring problems, issues, and opportunities, and then translating findings across teams into actional insights.
* Team Player: The ideal candidate will operate with a great sense of collaboration and with a commitment to teamwork - treating other people with respect and dignity, regardless of position.
* Entrepreneurial Spirit: Because this is an inaugural position, this should be someone with an entrepreneurial spirit who is willing and able to build and evolve this role along the way.
Qualifications:
* Master's degree in social science, education, public health, or a related field (or equivalent work experience), with at least 7 years of relevant experience in program evaluation and learning.
* Experience developing and implementing evaluation frameworks for social impact initiatives, preferably those that employ a mixed-capital approach.
* Experience with quantitative and qualitative research methods, including survey design, data collection and analysis, and evaluation reporting.
* Experience with knowledge management and dissemination strategies, including data visualization, report writing, and web-based knowledge-sharing tools.
* Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead and manage complex evaluation projects in a dynamic environment.
* Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Salary : $150,000 - $190,000
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