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Teachstone · 10 hours ago

Director of Impact Insights

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$135K/yr - $140K/yr

7+ years exp

Teachstone is dedicated to transforming education and enhancing teacher-student interactions. The Director of Impact Insights will lead the organization's analytics, evaluation, and research efforts, ensuring they operate cohesively to generate actionable insights that inform decision-making and demonstrate Teachstone’s impact in the field.

Education

Responsibilities

Own the design and ongoing evolution of the Impact Insights system, ensuring analytics, evaluation, research, and insight translation function as a coherent, scalable whole

Define and maintain standardized approaches to evaluation and insight that enable consistency, comparability, and cumulative learning across implementations and contexts

Make strategic decisions about levels of evaluation and analysis, balancing broad access to core insight with depth where needed

Set priorities and make tradeoffs across analytics, evaluation, and insight work to protect focus, rigor, and sustainability

Establish shared expectations and structures that reduce fragmentation and enable scale over time

Set standards for analytic rigor, evaluation design, and evidence quality across the Impact Insights function

Guide the development of consistent methods, analytic structures, and evaluation approaches that support efficiency and repeatability

Ensure analytic and evaluation work is designed to surface meaningful patterns, trends, and variation across settings and implementation conditions

Provide expert judgment on analytic approaches, methods, and data visualization to ensure clarity and interpretability

Ensure findings are synthesized into clear, decision-relevant insights that can be interpreted and used responsibly

Establish guardrails for evidence interpretation to avoid overgeneralization or misuse of data

Guide the team in examining how context and implementation conditions shape outcomes and insights

Translate analytic and evaluation findings into evidence-informed narratives that support decision-making and learning

Oversee and contribute to impact storytelling and thought leadership grounded in evidence

Shape field-facing narratives related to interactions and educator practice, ensuring credibility and coherence

Support Teachstone’s influence in the field by elevating insights that demonstrate impact and inform practice

Lead, mentor, and develop members of the Impact Insights team across analytics, evaluation, operations, and synthesis roles

Partner closely with the VP of Impact to align strategy, priorities, and expectations

Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure impact insights inform organizational decisions and learning

Qualification

EvaluationApplied ResearchData VisualizationEducation ExperienceMaster's DegreeTeam LeadershipPhD PreferredQuantitative AnalysisContextual AnalysisDecision-Making Translation

Required

7-10 years of experience in analytics, evaluation, applied research, or related field

Demonstrated experience designing or leading standardized, scalable analytic or evaluation systems

Strong analytic and evaluative fluency, including the ability to assess and guide quantitative analysis and data visualization

Experience examining variation in outcomes across contexts or implementation conditions

Experience leading and developing teams that produce analytics, evaluation, or research work

Ability to translate complex evidence into clear implications for decision-making and practice

Experience working in education, early learning, or social impact contexts

Master's degree required

Preferred

PhD preferred

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits: Medical/dental, 401(k), PTO, insurance, development opportunities. Details provided at offer. Eligibility depends on your role and employment status.