Community Science - Youth Research & Evaluation Managing Associate

Youth Research & Evaluation Managing Associate
Community Science's mission is to help build the capacity of organizations and institutions to develop healthy, just, and equitable communities. We study and promote equitable community and system change. Our evaluation and research services are designed to develop the knowledge necessary to address social problems in a way that benefits all communities. Our other primary services include research and evaluation, strategy development, capacity-building products, and assistance such as consultation, training, webinars, applications, and guides for practitioners.
The Managing Associateposition is a remote role that will work closely with our team in Bethesda, MD. This role requires someone who is passionate about supporting and creating equitable communities and who has strong evaluation, research, and capacity building competencies and experience in strategies intended to advance economic, education, and health equity, especially for children, youth, and young adults from historically marginalized populations. The ideal candidate would have expertise and experience in engaging youth, developing their leadership, and supporting their participation in community and civic affairs that affect their lives; experience working specifically with young people of color and in urban, suburban, and rural areas to fairly access economic and other opportunities; and excited about the potential of contributing to fields of practice (e.g., youth development, philanthropy, community resilience) and growing the organization’s youth development and leadership portfolio.
Responsibilities:

• Provide evaluation and evaluation capacity building services to government, foundations, nonprofits, and other organizations for initiatives that focus on children, youth, and young adults.
• Conduct research studies about issues that concern children, youth, and young adults and the caring adults in their lives.
• Engage youth in participatory research and evaluation processes.
• Supervise teams of staff and ensure technical quality control over assigned research, evaluation, and other services or tasks.
• Provide technical and project management leadership, including development and monitoring of project budgets.
• Have demonstrated experience in organizing, analyzing, and synthesizing complex data.
• Write and produce reports and presentations for scientists, practitioners, policy makers and the public.
• Work with other senior staff on proposal writing and conducting business development and marketing activities.

Qualifications
Required:

• Master’s degree in a social science, or related field with a minimum of seven years of relevant experience.
• Strong evaluation, research, and capacity building competencies and experience in strategies that use place-based, systems change, or environmental approaches intended to advance opportunities in urban, suburban, and/or rural settings and promote a healthy quality of life for all community members and especially youth and young people.
• Staff supervisory experience and skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency in both qualitative and quantitative methods and use of mixed methods.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Analysis skills, including ability to supervise the use of computer analysis tools (e.g, Atlas Ti, STATA or other analytic software such as ArcGIS and R).
• Successful experience conducting research or evaluation cross culturally
• Strong communication written and verbal skills; and
• Ability to travel.

Preferred:

• Doctoral degree
• Knowledge and experience with community organizing and other power building approaches
• Experience in a professional services or consulting organization
• Demonstrated experience in organizational learning and strategy improvement through evaluation capacity building as well as familiarity with this field of practice
• Adult education, facilitation, and group dynamics training and experience.

Salary and Benefits:
Community Science offers a competitive total compensation package that, for this position, includes base pay with an annual target between $115,000 and $135,000 (based on qualifications), along with a comprehensive benefits program. Community Science's benefits include health, dental, prescription drug and vision plans; retirement plan with company match; paid vacation, sick leave and holidays; opportunities and an extensive professional development program that includes funding and other opportunities.
This is a remote position, that can be located in any of the fifty United States or Washington, DC. Community Sciences' headquarters is located on the East Coast, though our staff can be found in all four Continental US time zones. 
Community Science is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a culturally diverse staff to enhance our ability to work with different communities. Visit our web site http://www.communityscience.com for a more detailed description of our organization.
 

BCT Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, military and or/ veterans’ status, or any other federal or state legally protected class. BCT Partners will not discriminate against persons because of their disability, including disabled veterans, and will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying and require special assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact our Human Resources Department.

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