This is an ongoing open consulting application as we are always looking for new talent to join our ResultsLab team of contract consultants! If you are interested, please submit a one-page cover letter describing how your experience has prepared you for working with ResultsLab and a resume. Materials are reviewed periodically.
Contract Staff may engage in the following tasks and activities...
- Lead and/or support the development, implementation, and evolution/refinement of client-facing projects.
- Lead and/or support the development and documentation of measurement strategies and plans, including the identification of indicators and data collection tools.
- Lead and/or support evaluation design, including development of learning questions and overall methodology to answer these questions.
- Conduct landscape assessment and literature reviews to inform development of project/study plans, and key design and measurement products.
- Conduct qualitative and/or quantitative data analyses.
- Design and develop a variety of compelling data products and visualizations to communicate findings. For example, dashboards, infographics, memos, and reports.
- Craft high-quality written deliverables (e.g., toolkits, playbooks, summary decks) to support program design, program implementation, performance measurement, and evaluation.
- Provide facilitation, coordination, preparation, and documentation support of coaching sessions with organizations and communities.
- Support and/or lead coaching sessions for clients – both individual contributors and teams – to help build their data and evaluation capacity.
What will make you successful...
- A bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in a related field and at least 4 years direct experience in evaluation and/or performance measurement, specifically with data collection, capacity building, data management, data analysis, and data visualization or communication.
- Strong analytical, data visualization, and interpretation skills.
- Advanced practical knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Working knowledge of qualitative analysis tools (e.g., NVivo, Atlas.ti, Dedoose)
- Working knowledge of data reporting and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
- Working knowledge of data management systems (e.g., Salesforce, ETO, Apricot, mySQL)
- Experience working in a nonprofit, foundation, or government agency.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, managing various tasks and activities across multiple projects.
- Experience designing and implementing evaluation/measurement and learning plans.
- Experience in project management, data collection and analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to center evaluation, learning, and social impact strategy work in principles of equity
- Ability to bring to life evaluation concepts or insights to inspire action and/or learning.
- Ability to earn the trust of others and develop relationships with team members, clients, and partners.
- A strong desire to contribute to a collaborative team atmosphere, dive in where needed, and learn new skills as needed to support excellent service to our clients.
- Critical thinker with proven ability to identify issues, innovate solutions, and continuously improve practice.
- Comfort in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with the ability to adapt and demonstrate flexibility.
- Ability to be available during core business as needed to engage with clients or Resultslab team members.
We are a distributed remote team, so the ability to maintain a strong internet connection and experience with online project management and communication platforms and systems such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Google Suite, Productive, Monday, Slack, and/or Zoom are required.