Learning and Evaluation Manager

by thewrightjess | January 20, 2021 20:24

January 20, 2021 20:24 | Tags: evaluation , jobs

Join our team and work to bring about a healthier and more equitable world through community science, open technology, and the pursuit of environmental justice. Public Lab is a community, supported by a 501(c)(3) non-profit, that develops and applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation. By democratizing inexpensive and accessible do-it-yourself techniques, Public Lab creates a collaborative network of practitioners who actively reimagine the human relationship with the environment.

• Terms
  :
  Full-time
• Position reports to
  :
  Director of Community Development.
• Compensation
  : $50,000-$60,000 based on experience and qualifications.
• Where
  :
  Remote, but with the opportunity to work from our offices in New Orleans or Brooklyn. This job requires occasional travel and work outside regular business hours.

This position is ideal for an evaluator who wants to be part of a fast-moving team developing, advancing, and sharing community science practices around the world. This role is an integral part of Public Lab’s Organizing & Research group, which works to ensure that people who come to Public Lab in pursuit of environmental justice are able to connect with others to advance locally meaningful outcomes through empiricism and advocacy.

This is a role for someone who loves questions and developing tools for questioning.

The Learning and Evaluation Manager anchors evaluation and organizational learning processes to assess the impact, both planned and unplanned, of Public Lab’s programs and culture. The Learning and Evaluation Manager navigates the cultural challenges of equitable knowledge production while documenting case studies of projects happening in and around Public Lab. To do this work, the Learning and Evaluation Manager disrupts the researcher/subject relationship in favor of discourse and collaboration, and from this relational position, anchors the design and collection of the types of data needed to document the scope of Public Lab’s work and its significance.

More broadly, the Learning and Evaluation Manager integrates learning practices and insights across the organization and the Public Lab ecosystem to speed the emergence of collective intelligence.

• Conduct qualitative, conversation-style interviews with community members.
• Document case studies to support staff‑written white papers on project methodology.
• Contribute, alongside staff and external partners, to peer‑reviewed articles on community science.
• Gather quantitative data with and about Public Lab community and partners to produce the bi‑annual All Community Survey.
• Create logic models and metrics for program work to track progress against Public Lab’s strategic objectives .
• Develop and maintain an annual schedule of evaluation activities.
• Analyze data, write reports, present results and insights.
• Design, test, implement, and encourage a culture of short feedback loops.
• Support program teams to incorporate their own organizational learning and feedback practices and implement what they learn.
• Support the sustainability of community projects through contributing to grant writing efforts and other fundraising initiatives.
• Adhere to Public Lab values and the Code of Conduct , nonprofit policies, and procedures.

• An experienced evaluator. You’ve completed high‑level work in fields related to evaluation, public administration, sociology, psychology, applied research or measurement, development studies, education studies, science and technology studies, etc. Learning or evaluation experience in a nonprofit…