[Jobs] Job Title: Evaluation Officer

[Leora Lawton]

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Rob Santos



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*THE EPISCOPAL HEALTH FOUNDATION *

*JOB POSTING *

*DEADLINE OPEN UNTIL POSITION IS FILLED *



*Job Title: Evaluation Officer*

Reports to: Dr. Alexandra (Lexi) Nolen, Director of Impact



*Position Summary: *As a new philanthropic organization focused on
transforming community health in Texas, the Episcopal Health Foundation
seeks an energetic and strategic professional with strong academic
credentials to help create and implement the evaluation system to support
the organization’s future success. The Evaluation Officer will be the lead
staff person *responsible for developing and implementing an evaluation
system as well as indicators and tools for measuring the impact of the
Foundation on population health at the grantee, programmatic, and
organizational levels, *to ensure that the Foundation’s work effectively
improves community health in the 57 counties of the Episcopal Diocese of
Texas. The Evaluation Officer will work closely with the Learning Officer,
Director of Impact, and leadership within EHF.



*The Evaluation Officer’s role includes the following: *

• Assume primary responsibility for developing and implementing processes
for measuring, evaluating and reporting on the Foundation’s impact, using a
variety of research tools to assist with comprehensive data analysis.

• Interpret evaluation findings in terms of implications for the
Foundation’s strategic and programmatic planning, and for capacity building
with grantees and other partners.

• Work with the Learning Officer and the Director of Impact to ensure all
Impact Team responsibilities are met.

• Work with other local and regional foundations to develop shared
indicators, goals, and evaluation approaches for stronger collective
impact, as opportunities arise.

*Requirements *

We seek a team member with experience in system based approaches to
evaluation including evaluation at multiple ecologic levels (including
grantee, programmatic, and organizational) to support learning and
strategic planning; skills in quantitative and qualitative analysis
methods; experience working with large databases and population health
research; a passion for social change; and excitement to use that
experience to support the Foundation in achieving its goals. The successful
candidate will have *at least a master's degree, but preferably a doctorate
*in social sciences, public health, community/regional planning, economics,
and/or public policy*, and at least 2 years of professional experience *with
progressively greater responsibilities.

*Specific Required Qualifications *

• At least 2 years of successful experience in using quantitative and
qualitative research methods, including multivariate analysis and working
with large datasets. Working knowledge of relevant software (e.g., SPSS,
SAS, Atlasti, NVivo, etc.).

• Experience developing locally/regionally relevant health and community
development indicators, benchmarks/goals, monitoring processes, and
evaluation techniques.

 • Familiarity working with population health data and national/regional
benchmarks to develop appropriate outcomes and process indicators and
goals.

• Familiarity with social change processes and health outcome-based
indicators, process-based indicators, and social determinants of health.

• Proven ability to successfully communicate the meaning and planning
implications of data for planning to multiple levels of management.

• Experience producing reports and powerpoints that summarize complex
information.

• Excellent judgment and unquestioned integrity; flexibility and the
ability to thrive in an environment of growth and change; respect for
diversity and; intellectual rigor and curiosity; superior problem solving
and oral and written communications skills; and ability to be politically
astute and ecumenically inclined.

*Preferred Qualifications *

• Experience developing evaluation frameworks that support aggregate
findings from multiple initiatives at different ecologic levels (such as
dashboards).

• Track record of success in using evaluation findings to inform learning
and strategic planning, including complex goals involving multiple
strategies and actors.

• Understanding of key inputs that drive social changes processes to
support community health, and how to capture progress in those areas.

• Experience working with a variety of stakeholders including community
members.

• Knowledge of the region’s demographics and community health challenges.

*Compensation *

Salary will be set in accordance with the successful candidate’s experience
and skills, with an expected range between $80,000 and $125,000. In
addition to salary, the candidate will receive Episcopal Health
Foundation’s generous employee benefits which include comprehensive health
insurance coverage and a 403(b) retirement plan to which the Foundation
will contribute an amount equal to 9% of salary.



*Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, and relevant
samples of work by email to **jobs at episcopalhealth.org
<jobs at episcopalhealth.org>**. The position will be filled as soon as the
right candidate is found. The Episcopal Health Foundation does not
discriminate on the basis of race/ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual
orientation, age, or other legally protected categories. *



*About Episcopal Health Foundation *

The Episcopal Health Foundation is a new entity established through the
recent sale of the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System, and has assets of
$1.2 billion. The Foundation works to advance human health and well-being
through grants, research, and initiatives in support of community health
among the 10 million people who live within the 57 counties of the Diocese
of Texas. Episcopal Health Foundation embraces the World Health
Organization’s broad, holistic definition of health: a state of complete
physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of
disease. We seek transformative change in communities to build
sustainability, inclusion, empowerment, and effective health and other
systems to ensure the highest attainable health in Texas.




-- 
Leora Lawton PhD
Executive Director
Berkeley Population Center
350K Barrows Hall
(of) 510-643-1270
(m) 510-928-7572
www.popcenter.berkeley.edu
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