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EDC (Education Development Center)

EDC envisions a world where all people are empowered to lead healthy, productive lives.

Research Scientist – Evaluator

Research ScientistResearch ScientistOtherRemoteLeadTeam 1,001-5,000Since 1958H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

155 days ago

Salary

$87K - $110K / year

Seniority

Lead

Postgraduate Degree10 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

Research Scientist – Evaluator

EDC (Education Development Center)

• 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.

Job 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

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