Director of Impact Insights
Teachstone
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $135,000 - $155,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
Requirements
- 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; PhD preferred.
Benefits
- Fair, Competitive Pay: We ensure equal pay for equal work, using consistent salary bands based on market benchmarks, reviewed annually. Prior salaries, negotiation skills, or fear of conflict don’t influence your pay.
- Comprehensive benefits: Medical/dental, 401(k), PTO, insurance, development opportunities. Details provided at offer. Eligibility depends on your role and employment status.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
analyticsevaluationapplied researchdata visualizationquantitative analysisevaluation designevidence qualityanalytic methodsimpact storytellingnarrative translation
Soft skills
strategic decision-makingmentoringcollaborationcommunicationleadershipprioritizationsynthesisguidancecontextual analysisinsight translation
Certifications
Master's degreePhD