Director, Research Initiatives

Type of Vacancy: Salaried, full-timeStart date: January-February 2024Location: Remote/home office anywhere in the continental United StatesReport to: Senior Director, Learning & ResearchSupervises: Manager, Learning & Research, Data Analyst(s) Compensation: The full salary range for this position is $106,000 - $160,335 annually. There are two types of experience being considered for this role: Experience that is directly relevant to the role and Total Working Experience, in all fields. This includes: internships and consulting work. In collaboration with the hiring manager, the People and Culture team calculates experience based on the candidate’s most current resume. When calculating the offer, consideration is given to candidates that possess additional qualifications (i.e., desired qualifications). Teaching Lab will generally cap salaries for new employees at 105% of the midpoint to allow for continued growth in the role over time.
Teaching Lab is an equal-opportunity employer committed to reflecting the diversity of the students we serve. We pursue equity as both a means and an end and enthusiastically welcome candidates of all backgrounds to apply for this role.
WHO WE ARETeaching Lab is a nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning to achieve educational equity. We envision a world where teachers and students thrive together in communities that enable life-long learning and meaningful lives. In partnership with teachers, we transform professional learning from the ground up to dramatically improve student outcomes. We also work with school, district, and state leaders to create the instructional systems necessary to support these changes. To learn more about Teaching Lab, explore our website at www.teachinglab.org.
SUMMARY OF POSITIONThe Director, Research Initiatives is responsible for developing and leading the execution of the strategy to evaluate and share the impact of our professional learning on teachers and students to strengthen Teaching Lab’s research design capacity and learning organization culture. The incumbent will develop, iterate, and execute research designs for impact evaluations; act as primary lead on internal and external research projects aimed to determine Teaching Lab’s impact and/or the impact of specific interventions;  support with results interpretation and dissemination; and delegate work to team members to support Teaching Lab’s mission and align with the values.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• The Director, Research Initiatives will hold responsibilities in the following functional areas:


• External engagements for program evaluation
• Lead and manage the Learning & Research Team’s external research collaborations, including acting as the liaison between external researchers and/or evaluators and the internal Program team to ensure alignment and execution on research design implementation (e.g. consent processes, randomization, implementation of interventions, data collection)
• Form and deepen partnerships with key researchers and funders 
• Collaborate on the application process for federal or other research grants with rigorous research and/or external evaluation components
• Lead and/or collaborate with external researchers and evaluators on district research approval processes
• Lead and manage reporting for research projects funded by federal or other research grants or philanthropy


• Formative research for innovation
• With the Senior Director, collaborate with the Program team to develop and implement short cycles of formative research for programmatic innovations (e.g., A/B testing)
• With the Senior Director, manage the support of intervention implementation, data collection, data analysis, and dissemination of results from short cycles of formative research for programmatic innovation
• With the Program team, manage L&R’s support to the Teacher Advisory Board and other future advisory boards, including collaborating on designing engagement opportunities, analyzing, and sharing results


• Internal Evaluation of Program Impact
• Focus: evaluation design, evaluation tools design, analysis, data reporting, and data management
• Act as “Analyst” on assigned program project teams, typically those that form part of internal or external research initiatives, to support data collection - attending project team meetings, advising project leader and client manager on details and timeline of data collection, supporting to interpret and translate data finding
• Develop, iterate, and execute research designs for specific projects under the direction of the Senior Director, Learning & ResearchManage the development, iteration user-testing, and finalization of data c