Adjunct Faculty - Ballard Center - Program Manager: GoodMeasure

Job Title: Adjunct Faculty - Ballard Center - Program Manager: GoodMeasure

Posting End Date:  November 3, 2025 

*NOTE: Last day to apply is November 2, 2023 at 11:59 pm (MST)

Position Start Date: January 2, 2026

Position Overview:

The Ballard Center for Social Impact at Brigham Young University invites applications for an adjunct faculty appointment to direct GoodMeasure, an experiential learning and professional evaluation program. This position uniquely combines academic teaching with program management of an applied consultancy, offering students both classroom-based learning and direct client-facing evaluation experience.

GoodMeasure includes two components:

• GoodMeasure Class (Pro Bono Projects): A credit-bearing experiential course where students are coached in designing rigorous outcome evaluation plans for nonprofit and community partners at no cost.

• GoodMeasure Program (Paid Consultancy): A professional consultancy staffed by highly trained students delivering evaluation projects for paying nonprofit, government, and corporate clients under faculty supervision.

The adjunct professor will function as both faculty member and program director, mentoring students in the standards of a professional evaluator in teaching, research application, client engagement, and project management.

Required Degree: Master’s degree or higher in program evaluation, public administration, international development, social sciences, or a related field. The required degree must be completed by the start date. 

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional evaluation experience, including direct work with nonprofit, government, or international development organizations.

• Demonstrated expertise in both quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods.

• Strong project management skills, including planning, budgeting, resource allocation, and risk management.

• Proven experience producing high-quality evaluation reports and delivering findings to senior-level stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and manage student or professional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing MEL portfolios for international agencies, NGOs, or consultancies.

• Experience with data visualization, dashboard creation, and knowledge management systems.

• Familiarity with statistical software (e.g., Stata, R, SPSS) and qualitative coding software (e.g., NVivo, Dedoose, ATLAS.ti).

• Prior experience teaching in a university setting.

• Established professional network in the evaluation or social impact sector.

Responsibilities:

Teaching & Academic Leadership

• Teach the GoodMeasure experiential course in Winter semester, integrating theory, applied practice, and ethical considerations of evaluation while delivering professional-level evaluation plans to collaborative community partners.

• Mentor students in the design of evaluation frameworks, including theories of change, logic models, results frameworks, and performance monitoring plans.

• Provide academic rigor while fostering professional readiness, ensuring students can translate evaluation theory into practice.

Program & Client Management

• Serve as faculty lead for the GoodMeasure consultancy, managing multiple simultaneous client projects.

• Scope and negotiate evaluation projects with paying clients, including contracts, timelines, deliverables, and resource allocation.

• Supervise student analysts, ensuring technical quality, ethical rigor, and professional client deliverables.

• Maintain strong client relationships while cultivating new partnerships that align with the Ballard Center’s mission.

• Coordinate with Ballard Center leadership to manage program strategy, staffing, budgets, and sustainability.

Evaluation Practice (Professional Standards)

• Apply both quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods at a professional level, including survey design, sampling strategies, statistical analysis, impact evaluation methods (e.g., RCTs, quasi-experimental designs), and qualitative techniques (e.g., interviews, focus groups, participatory appraisal).

• Ensure evaluations are culturally responsive and methodologically rigorous, with attention to issues of equity, ethics, and inclusion.

• Prepare and oversee the production of professional deliverables, i