Manager, Research & Evaluation

ABOUT UNBOUNDED

UnboundEd recently joined two professional learning organizations, Pivot Learning and CORE Learning. As one entity, we are now the nation's largest equity-focused professional learning organization. We provide evidence-based, comprehensive instructional and curriculum support to educators and school system leaders in over 40 states nationwide.

UnboundEd empowers educators to transform teaching and learning. We work with classroom teachers, school leaders, and district executives to ensure engaging, affirming, and meaningful grade-level instruction so that we eliminate the predictability of student outcomes by race and socioeconomic status. We focus on the needs of students of color and those who have historically been at the margins because when we do that, all students benefit.

ROLE SUMMARY

Reporting to the Vice President, Research and Evaluation, the Manager, Research & Evaluation will oversee a portfolio of research projects focusing on quantitative impact evaluation. This position will ensure successful partnerships with external evaluators on grant and federally-funded research projects and collaborate with internal program teams to help the organization develop and execute evaluations that allow for insights around the causal impact of UnboundEd’s product and service offerings.

UnboundEd is a virtual organization, and this employee can be based anywhere in the United States. UnboundEd has core business hours where we expect all staff to be available from 9 am to 5 pm local time and up to 20% travel is required.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:

Program Evaluation: Design program evaluation plans with a specific focus on quantitative impact evaluation in collaboration with qualitative and mixed methods research partners 

• Co-develop data collection tools and engage in data collection, analysis, and quality assurance to measure the efficacy of UnboundEd’s products and services 
• Establish the psychometric properties of measurement tools
• Design and conduct impact evaluations of UnboundEd’s products and services using descriptive, correlational, quasi-experimental, and experimental methods
• Co-develop and finalize data analyses, white papers, reports, academic articles, and other written deliverables
• Collaboratively drive the dissemination of papers, reports, and other deliverables within the education research sector
• Manage the successful execution of a portfolio of research projects (e.g., milestones, deadlines, cross-team collaboration), ensuring deadlines for deliverables are met
• Internal and External Partnerships: Manage relationships with external evaluators collaborating with UnboundEd/CORE on grant and federally-funded research projects, and internal program staff when designing and executing impact evaluations
• Manage relationships with external evaluators collaborating with UnboundEd/CORE on grant and federally-funded research projects
• Serve as the key liaison to the external evaluator, American Institutes for Research (AIR), on the Adolescent Planning and Implementation Collaborative grant - a Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant
• Serve as the key liaison to the external evaluator, AIR, on the Reading Reimagined grant - an Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant
• Advise external evaluators  on UnboundEd’s product and service delivery plans, research strategies, data collection, analysis, and dissemination 
• Liaise with external evaluators to establish and manage district contracts and data-sharing protocols
• Co-write and co-publish reports and papers with other members of the UnboundEd research team and external evaluators
• Co-lead dissemination efforts
• Own, organize, and manage human subjects and institutional research board requirements for federal, state, and district compliance, including ensuring that all UnboundEd/CORE data-sharing agreements with partners are compliant with all federal and local rules
• Manage relationships with internal program staff when designing and executing impact evaluations. This includes successful relationship building, intentional communication, and deep collaboration throughout the process
• Lead resource management for a portfolio of projects, including budget and staffing 
• Lead organization-wide professional development around program evaluation
• Team Collaboration: Support project and team administrative tasks
• Collaboratively maintain and consistently update project plans of all projects falling under the