Research Scientist – Evaluator
EDC (Education Development Center)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $87,000 - $110,000 per year
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- PhD in behavioral science, epidemiology, public health, community psychology, or related health/social science field
- 10+ years of professional evaluation experience, including program- and community-level evaluation
- 5+ years of project management experience, including staff supervision
- Demonstrated leadership in evaluation design, with deep expertise in logic models and qualitative and mixed-methods approaches
- Experience supervising or leading teams, ideally including evaluators and/or technical assistance providers
- Strong project management skills, including defining roles, delegating work, and keeping complex projects on track
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and coordinate work across multiple contracts and external partners
- Experience applying multi-level, systems-based, or collective action frameworks to the design and evaluation of complex initiatives
- Strong grounding in public health approaches to prevention, including population-based, systems-level, and community-driven strategies
- Experience designing and delivering evaluation-focused training and technical assistance to coalitions, behavioral health systems, or community-based organizations
- Excellent facilitation, collaboration, and communication skills
- Strong writing and reporting abilities, with experience developing evaluation frameworks, tools, and guidance documents, and a record of published work
- Proven ability to present evaluation findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid holidays
- Generous vacation benefits for full- and part-time employees
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax transport benefit
- Robust retirement plan with TIAA/CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association/College Retirement Equities Fund)
- Paid sick time and personal time annually
- Parental leave
- Employee assistance program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
evaluation frameworkslogic modelstheories of changequalitative methodsquantitative methodsmixed-methods approachesproject managementevaluation designtraining and technical assistancereport writing
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationmentoringfacilitationproject coordinationproblem-solvingrelationship buildingadaptabilitysupervision
Certifications
PhD in behavioral sciencePhD in epidemiologyPhD in public healthPhD in community psychology