Braven

Associate Director, Research

Braven

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Chicago • Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $69,000 - $86,200 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead qualitative research process from front to end (e.g., from designing interview/focus group protocols and facilitating sessions to analyzing data and surfacing actionable insights.
  • Own content creation of thought leadership papers, including outlining, drafting sections, and coordinating with external designers for final publication.
  • Support managing external research partnerships by synthesizing insights from both Braven's data and external research to create a compelling, unified narrative.
  • Own a subset of continuous improvement priorities from Braven’s Research Agenda
  • Define and prioritize the most important learning questions to help Braven monitor and analyze fidelity of implementation, and understand where and how we can best improve
  • Design and run pilots and other projects to answer learning questions, in partnership with Product and regional team colleagues
  • Translate research findings into strategy to inform continuously improving program design and processes, in partnership with Product and regional team colleagues
  • Synthesize research findings in clear and compelling reports, presentations, dashboards, etc. for internal and external audiences.
  • Lead analyses for special and/or ad hoc data analysis that provides timely and useful information to other teams at Braven
  • Be a member of Braven’s cross-functional project teams, as needed. Project teams centrally plan and execute Braven programming, as well as other strategic projects.
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • BA/BS in a quantitative field or work experience that demonstrates expertise in quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • 5+ years of experience in a program evaluation or other analytical/learning role
  • Proficiency in at least one statistical programming language (e.g., Stata or R)
  • Master’s Degree Preferred
  • You are committed to continuous learning and improvement and, as such, are comfortable seeking out, receiving, and implementing constructive feedback.
  • You have a researcher’s mindset and have fun designing pilots and experiments to test hypotheses.
  • You enjoy telling stories with data and pair that with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • You have experience leading qualitative research from top to bottom, resulting in compelling case studies or narratives
  • You have experience conducting quantitative analysis with different tools and statistical packages while working with others to make use of findings, preferably in the non-profit field.
  • You love collaboration and are good at it.
  • You excel at daily operations, paying close attention to detail and communicating well with stakeholders.
  • You have the following technical skills and knowledge:
  • Proficiency in Google Suite, Slack, Jira Proficiency in at least one statistical programming language (e.g., Stata or R)
  • Proficiency in Salesforce
  • Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to develop others.
  • Exemplification of Braven’s core values.
  • Experience that has informed your belief in Braven’s mission and has prepared you to work with or for Braven’s student Fellow population.
Benefits
  • Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 days per year)
  • Braven supports your path to parenthood and beyond with $25,000 in lifetime Carrot benefits for fertility, family-building, and hormonal health
  • Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month
  • Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents
  • A one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
qualitative researchquantitative analysisstatistical programming languageStataRdata analysiscontent creationprogram evaluationpilot designdata synthesis
Soft skills
communication skillscollaborationattention to detailcontinuous learningfeedback implementationstorytelling with dataleadershiporganizational skillsresearch mindsetproblem-solving
Certifications
Master’s DegreeBA/BS in quantitative field