Evaluation Manager

For more than 50 years, Children’s Council has been the heart of childcare and early education in San Francisco, advancing the belief that high-quality childcare can transform lives and communities.

Our more than 150 team members help families navigate their childcare and preschool options and secure financial assistance to pay for it. We provide home-based childcare businesses with the training and resources to succeed. Through a wide range of free programs and workshops, we support parents and caregivers as they build child development skills. As the city’s second-largest nonprofit contractor, with an annual budget of over $240 million, we are amajor stakeholder in the childcare system.

We educate the public and advocate for increased investment in early education at the local and state level.

If you are a childcare champion, we want you on our team.

The Evaluation Manager is a key member of the Research, Data and Evaluation team that will work closely with the Director of Research, Data and Evaluation, other program managers, and staff to help design and implement program evaluation, data collection, and analysis strategies. The Evaluation Manager will directly supervise the Program Data Coordinator on the Research, Data and Evaluation team. S/he/they is a key driver in building learning opportunities to improve programs, inform direction and verify assumptions.

The Evaluation Manager’s key focus is to evaluate and uplift Children’s Council’s program impacts in order to increase efficiency, inform program growth, and support the evolving needs of our diverse client communities.

• Leads/co-leads conversations with program and admin team leaders to assess, design and analyze impact in programs and grants
• Manages the production of data insights that tell a story and provide suggestions for action-planning across departments
• Facilitates and supports the design of impact related, external facing presentations
• Manages multiple evaluation projects simultaneously and prioritizes time and workload effectively
• Responsible for overseeing and coordinating the daily workflow and activities of the team
• Monitors team’s tasks and projects, distributes workload across team in a timely and comprehensive manner

• Provides ongoing feedback, coaching, and training to staff members to enhance their skills and performance
• Continuously seeks opportunities for improvement in processes and outcomes
• Facilitates change management within the team

• Utilizes organizational impact evaluation framework and ensures that all programs have systems in place to analyze and interpret impact, informing program improvements and design
• Collaborates with program teams to ensure that program evaluations are in alignment with grant/funder requirements and program goals
• Optimizes client surveys to ensure high-quality feedback loops for program growth.
• Designs and implements high-quality evaluations and analysis for new programs and initiatives
• Conducts and analyzes interviews and focus groups with internal and external stakeholders
• Supports program teams in incorporating quantitative and qualitative evaluation findings into grant/funder reports

• Oversees the production of research deliverables, including detailed reports, succinct one-pagers, and background research for funding proposals
• Leads/co-leads the development of data dashboards to provide the necessary data outputs for tracking and measuring impact
• Oversees the analysis of quantitative and…