Director of Program Effectiveness Research

The expected salary range for this position is $159,550.00 - $199,420.00. Employees in specific high cost of labor locations in the United States (such as San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) may qualify for a geographic differential. Compassion International is not responsible for third parties who omit this information when copying and re-posting job openings.

This Director of Research will lead the organizational vision for conducting research to improve impact and scale across Compassion’s child development programs, to inform leadership decision-making and marketing platforms, and to influence the sector to uptake research results and findings. He/she will continue to build organizational capacity and systems for research, drive research agendas, and lead research teams and projects to answer the most pressing questions to improve impact and scale. 

The director will provide direction through subordinate managers and staff including hiring, discipline, and termination, as well as, coaching, performance management, assigning, checking, and approving work to achieve global strategies and objectives. In addition, he/she will collaborate with other senior leaders and contribute to the development of functional strategy and make decisions based on operational strategy and priorities.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a remote position that can be based in the US or in one of Compassion's countries. All resumes must be submitted in English.

What will you do?

• Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintain a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully uphold Compassion’s ministry in prayer.

• Act as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commit to and prioritize child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abide by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Report any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately support responses to incidents if they occur.

• Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors.

• Facilitate inclusive, participatory and collaborative process to develop annual research agendas to deliver high quality research.

• Lead high performing research teams consisting of a team of managers and qualitative and quantitative specialists to design and develop research projects and deliver on work plans to carry out the research agenda.

• Drive the team in using appropriate and rigorous approaches to generate reliable, timely and meaningful information to stakeholders. This includes stakeholder engagement, development of research questions, literature reviews and country-level contextualization, sample and participant selection, quantitative methodology development, in-depth analysis using the necessary data analysis tools, report writing and presentation to multiple audiences and forums.

• Refine and oversee technical research agenda driving towards improving Compassion’s impact, scale and influence across outcomes that incorporates identifying and filling critical evidence and knowledge needs.

• Support country and regional teams to streamline and carry out high quality data collection for research priorities.

• Strengthen and continuously improve Compassions’ research systems, including standards and support for high quality data collection, data storage, version control, cleaning, coding, analysis, writing and dissemination, including participants and communities involved in research.

• Develop Compassion’s Institutional Review Board and serve as the chair. Support teams to maintain high ethical standards in research.

• Develop and maintain strong partnerships with academic institutions or other external networks or institutions. Represent research internally and externally. Develop effective partnerships for research at country, regional, and global levels that will enhance Compassion’s ability to generate evidence.

• Present, publish and represent Compassion's research at events and meetings to influence key stakeholders.

• Develop and maintain feedback loops that will facilitate participatory processes at church field partner, National Office, regional, and global levels.