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City of New York · 1 month ago

Research and Evaluation Specialist

All, MO

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$98K/yr - $129K/yr

3+ years exp

The City of New York is seeking a Research and Evaluation Specialist to join the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD). This role involves overseeing evaluation contracts, supporting data collection and outcomes management, and ensuring effective communication of evaluation findings across the agency.

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Responsibilities

Support coordinating and overseeing DYCD’s evaluation contracts, with a focus on the evaluation of Afterschool Programs. Evaluation Support Includes

Writing vendor solicitations, and supporting the design of effective scopes for program evaluation projects

Ensuring that evaluation and research designs proposed by external evaluators are appropriate and confidentiality protocols are adhered to

Coordinating communication and project management with external evaluators, including co-design of data collection tools, project methodology, reports and other deliverables

Ensuring external evaluators are abiding by best practices in evaluation, including participatory action research and human-centered design, as applicable

Preparing summaries and reports on results of evaluation and research findings and processes, presentations, testimony and memoranda; design and facilitate presentations to support agencywide and external learning, encouraging data-informed program management and consistent implementation in policies and practices

Partnering with units across the agency to ensure evaluation findings are translated into change and consistently implemented, and communicate evaluation findings widely to others in the agency or the field more broadly as appropriate

Conduct and coordinate data collection and outcomes management, particularly in afterschool Programs, Which Includes

Supporting implementation of assessment tools and related evaluation projects

Supporting onboarding of afterschool programs into all applicable data systems; and

Conducting, supporting, and/or providing technical assistance for in-person survey administration in school and community-based afterschool settings

Collaborate across PPIE to ensure alignment and mutual reinforcement between external evaluations, program logic models, agencywide Theory of Change, Requests for Proposals (RFPs), EMS indicators, and referrals to Capacity Building supports

Support the design, revision, and data entry of indicators for DYCD’s Evaluation and Monitoring System (EMS) to improve data quality and use

Oversee and conduct training as needed to support high-quality monitoring of DYCD programs

Conduct research (e.g., literature reviews, summaries and briefs of reports by external evaluators, experts, foundations, and advocates) on best practices in various programmatic areas and agencywide initiatives

Conduct qualitative & quantitative data analysis, including cleaning data sets, preparing tables and charts, and compiling trend data

Develop logic models and outcomes frameworks for DYCD program areas to facilitate decision-making on investments and program refinements by the executive team; and

Additional tasks as needed, including interacting with other DYCD bureaus, community-based organizations (CBOs), and other City agencies to coordinate joint initiatives

Qualification

Program evaluation experienceData analysisProject managementCommunication skillsFacilitation skillsVisual presentation skillsTechnical assistanceStakeholder engagementQualitative researchQuantitative research

Required

A master's degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health

A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization

A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization

Education and/or experience which is equivalent to '1' or '2' above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in '2' above

Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in '1' and '2' above