Manager, Learning and Evaluation-Philanthropy

Manager, Learning and Evaluation-Philanthropy

The Manager, Learning and Evaluation, Philanthropy leads evaluation and learning efforts across Care Quest Institute’s philanthropic grant portfolios, initiatives, and priority investments, including the OPEN network. This role designs and implements evaluation frameworks that track progress and emerging impacts over time toward oral health systems change, generate actionable learning, and support strategic decision-making.

Embedded within the Philanthropy team, this position partners closely with grantees, OPEN members, and internal teams to ensure evaluation approaches are equity‑centered, appropriately scaled, and focused on meaningful outcomes rather than outputs alone. The role collaborates with our Analytics and Data Insights (ADI) team to translate data into insights that inform strategy, learning, and impact communication.

• Lead and oversee the development and implementation of evaluation frameworks across grant portfolios, initiatives, and priority investments, aligned with Care Quest’s evaluation north star and emphasizing systems change, equity, and long‑term impact.
• Develop and steward logic models, theories of change, and learning questions across grant portfolios and the OPEN network.
• Ensure evaluation approaches reflect stage of change, scale, and relevant system levers (e.g., policy, workforce, care delivery, community power).
• Establish and maintain indicators, baselines, and progress measures to assess incremental and long‑term change across grant portfolios and OPEN.
• Develop and steward a Philanthropy learning agenda based on evaluation findings that informs annual planning, strategy refresh processes, and ongoing learning cycles across the team.
• Build internal and external capacity in evaluation and learning practices, including strengthening evaluation literacy among Philanthropy staff, grantees, and network partners.
• Lead and facilitate learning, reflection, and sense making sessions with internal teams, grantees, and OPEN members to support shared understanding and adaptive practice.
• Support real‑time learning to inform strategic planning, course correction, and adaptive grantmaking.

• Design and oversee qualitative and quantitative data collection and reporting frameworks, including reporting questions, surveys, interviews, and focus groups, to generate actionable insights.
• Analyze and synthesize qualitative and quantitative data to assess trends, progress, and emerging impacts over time related to access, equity, systems strengthening, and field influence.
• Translate findings into clear, actionable insights for internal and external stakeholders.

• Produce evaluation and learning products such as briefs, reports, presentations, dashboards, and infographics.
• Stay informed of philanthropy evaluation trends, emerging practices, and field standards, and translate relevant insights into Care Quest’s evaluation and learning approaches.
• Support leadership, board, and funder reporting with credible and meaningful evidence of progress and impact.
• Identify opportunities to share insights with the broader field to support learning and influence practice.
• Develop learning products that communicate how strategies, outcomes, and system signals are evolving over time, not solely end results.

• Provide evaluation and learning technical assistance and capacity building support to grantees and OPEN members.
• Ensure evaluation expectations align with trust‑based philanthropy principles and minimize administrative burden.
• Support shared learning across networks and communities of practice.

• Serve as a primary liaison between Philanthropy and Analytics and Data Insights (ADI) for evaluation related work.
• Coordinate with Grants Management and program staff to integrate evaluation into grantmaking processes.
• Translate analytic outputs into learning and strategy relevant insights for the Philanthropy team.

Required:

• Master’s degree in public health, public policy, social sciences, evaluation, or a related field; or…