Manager, Data + Community Insights

Purpose Built Communities® (“Purpose Built”) is an incubator, convener, and catalyst for social change at the neighborhood level. Purpose Built is a philanthropically funded nonprofit organization that partners with local leaders, its Network Members to design, direct, and accelerate neighborhood transformation initiatives across the United States so residents can experience greater racial equity, improved health outcomes, and increased upward mobility.

Purpose Built provides pro-bono guidance, coaching, and support to these local leaders, their staff, and stakeholders in implementing and growing a holistic model of revitalization in their neighborhoods. Together with Purpose Built’s Network Members and strategic partners, Purpose Built believes every neighborhood should have affordable, high-quality mixed-income housing, excellent schools that keep student success in life and in the classroom central, inclusive spaces that nurture and enrich residents’ physical and mental health and foster a sense of belonging, and a thriving commercial core that keeps the neighborhood economically vibrant.

The through line is uplifting the legacy and supporting the vision of the people who have long called that neighborhood home.

Purpose Built supports 60 neighborhoods, across 24 states, providing Network Members with pro-bono services, including technical assistance, a robust Community of Practice, policy support, fundraising, and more. As Purpose Built continues to evolve its Model and support structures, it focuses on amplifying its value proposition, telling a collective story of Network impact, and establishing its leadership of place-based work.

• Possibility: Our purpose is proving the possible, not settling for the probable.
• Impact: We take action and build bridges to create lasting impact.
• Community: We cultivate connected, mutually contributing communities.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Impact and Learning, the Manager, Data + Community Insights will support Community Quarterback organizations across the country in systematically gathering the perspectives, insights, and experiences of residents' voices via surveys as an integral part of the data strategy at Purpose Built Communities alongside programmatic, administrative, and population-level data. Centering Residents is a core value and component of the Purpose Built Model of neighborhood transformation so it is important that the voice and perspectives of residents is prominent in our measurement framework.

This role will partner with other Purpose Built staff members, particularly the Vice President of Narrative Strategy, and with local Community Quarterbacks to realize this important aspiration.

To meet that imperative, this role will guide Community Quarterback Organizations through participatory research processes while supporting the evolution of Purpose Built's survey tool to be more efficient and aligned with the Purpose Built Model. The Manager will serve as the primary point of contact for organizations implementing the survey, providing training, technical assistance, and facilitation support to help residents, Community Quarterbacks, and local leaders identify priorities and make data-informed decisions.

• Guide Community Quarterbacks through all facets of the survey administration process using a participatory research process that engages residents to survey their neighbors about their experiences and perceptions of the neighborhood
• Utilize strong project management practices to ensure survey timelines, deliverables, and quality standards are met across multiple concurrent engagements
• Collaborate with clients and community members to adapt survey processes to local contexts while maintaining alignment with Purpose Built's values
• Partner with Community Quarterback staff to design and facilitate community meetings and trainings that center residents and the community in understanding findings and identifying priorities

• Coordinate with data analysts to ensure…