Head of Insights & Impact

A $1 Billion Commitment to Build What’s Next in Health and Life Sciences Job Description

Position:Head of Insights & Impact - Austin, TX Location: Austin, TX
Job :359 # of Openings:1

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (www.dell.org) builds pathways that change lives for families around the world. Through their philanthropy and charitable vehicles, Michael and Susan Dell have committed more than $10 billion to improve education, health, and economic stability, with a focus on delivering measurable, long-term impact. With offices in Austin, New Delhi, Cape Town, Nairobi, and Tel Aviv, the foundation supports programs that advance quality public education, promote children's health, and strengthen family economic stability.

Together, these efforts reflect a belief that lasting change comes from investing in people — and in the potential of every child.

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has always believed that better that lasting change comes from investing in people – and that better outcomes are achieved when strong evidence is paired with a deep understanding of the children, families, and partners in the communities we serve. As the Foundation's portfolio grows more complex and the tools for turning data into insight evolve rapidly — from advanced analytics to AI — the opportunity to sharpen how we measure, learn, and act has never been greater.

We are seeking a Head of Insights & Impact, based in Ausin, Texas to lead and unify our enterprise Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning, Analytics, Data Science, and Enterprise Data Platform functions. This leader will report to the Head of Finance & Operations and will set the direction for the Insights & Impact function, lead a high-performing team, and ensure Programs has the evidence and infrastructure it needs to deliver measurable, long-term impact.

We are looking for someone who combines deep expertise in evaluation, analytics, and data science with the business instincts of a strategist, the follow-through of an operator, and the instincts of a human-centered leader. The ideal candidate understands that data is only valuable when it helps people make better decisions, take stronger action, and improve outcomes in the communities we serve.

This person brings a customer-centric mindset, technical fluency, and leadership presence to navigate the intersection of evidence, technology, strategy and human motivation into an operating model that works at enterprise scale.

The Head of Insights & Impact will own the Foundation's insights and impact function end-to-end—and be responsible for evolving it based on the Foundation's needs. This is fundamentally a partnership role:
Programs drives the business and sets the strategic direction;
Insights & Impact partners alongside by providing expertise and leadership to build the best possible evidence, data, and tools for that direction. That means this leader and their team will get out into the field alongside Programs and their partners — understanding the environments grantees and communities operate in, so that measurement and technology genuinely serve the people using them, not just the enterprise reporting on them.

Effective use of AI and analytics will be critical to Insights & Impact supporting the Foundation's next chapter. This leader will start from a clear question: what does Programs need to make, execute, and track great decisions—and how do we build an organization capable of delivering it?

• Define and execute the strategy for the Insights & Impact function—analytics, AI, evaluation, and enterprise data—in…