EDC (Education Development Center)
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Research Scientist – Evaluator
Research ScientistResearch ScientistFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 1958H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
27 days ago
Salary
$87K - $110K / year
Postgraduate Degree10 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Lead the design and implementation of evaluation frameworks across projects.
• Provide senior oversight to evaluation staff and TTA providers, ensuring clear roles, methodological rigor, and consistency.
• Manage evaluation timelines, tasks, and deliverables across multiple projects for both individual and team workloads.
• Develop and refine logic models, theories of change, and evaluation designs for project initiatives.
• Ensure rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods while balancing feasibility and scientific integrity.
• Build and sustain collaborative relationships with external partners, addressing challenges and promoting shared understanding across organizations.
• Guide the development of evaluation tools, frameworks, and resources to support workgroups, community pilots, and ZSI clients.
• Translate evaluation findings into clear, actionable insights for funders, communities, behavioral health systems, and other partners, including substantive contributions to final reports and deliverables.
• Represent evaluation priorities in senior-level meetings, cross-site workgroups, and external forums.
• Mentor and supervise evaluation staff, fostering methodological excellence and professional growth.
• Partner closely with Project Directors to align evaluation needs, staffing, and communication across project teams.
• Manage competing priorities while ensuring alignment of evaluation activities across teams.
Job Requirements
- PhD in behavioral science, epidemiology, public health, community psychology, or related health/social science field
- 10+ years of professional evaluation experience, including program- and community-level evaluation
- 5+ years of project management experience, including staff supervision
- Demonstrated leadership in evaluation design, with deep expertise in logic models and qualitative and mixed-methods approaches
- Experience supervising or leading teams, ideally including evaluators and/or technical assistance providers
- Strong project management skills, including defining roles, delegating work, and keeping complex projects on track
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and coordinate work across multiple contracts and external partners
- Experience applying multi-level, systems-based, or collective action frameworks to the design and evaluation of complex initiatives
- Strong grounding in public health approaches to prevention, including population-based, systems-level, and community-driven strategies
- Experience designing and delivering evaluation-focused training and technical assistance to coalitions, behavioral health systems, or community-based organizations
- Excellent facilitation, collaboration, and communication skills
- Strong writing and reporting abilities, with experience developing evaluation frameworks, tools, and guidance documents, and a record of published work
- Proven ability to present evaluation findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid holidays
- Generous vacation benefits for full- and part-time employees
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax transport benefit
- Robust retirement plan with TIAA/CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association/College Retirement Equities Fund)
- Paid sick time and personal time annually
- Parental leave
- Employee assistance program
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