EDC (Education Development Center)

Research Scientist

• 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.

Research Scientist – Evaluator