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Director, Strategic Learning & Impact

Company

Rockefeller Foundation
Address , New York, 10018, Ny
Employment type
Salary $181,798 - $233,971 a year
Expires 2023-07-20
Posted at 11 months ago
Job Description
Position Overview
The Strategic Learning & Impact team works with The Rockefeller Foundation staff, grantees, and partners to set clear strategies, measure progress toward impact, and enable adaptation based on insights and lessons learned. As such, the team designs and facilitates the Foundation’s efforts to proactively measure, assess, learn, and share insights from its work.
Reporting to the Vice President, Strategic Learning & Impact, the Director, Strategic Learning & Impact is an integral part of the Foundation’s strategic learning team, responsible for anchoring the full learning and adaptive management cycle for 1-2 programmatic initiatives – from supporting the strategy design process to designing, guiding, and managing measurement and evaluation work to building systems and processes that enable strategic learning and course correction throughout implementation. The Director, Strategic Learning & Impact supports internal sense-making around programmatic data on progress and results and manages right-sized independent evaluative activities such as developmental evaluations, rapid assessments, and learning syntheses.
This role works in close partnership with initiative leads and teams to support the Foundation’s data-driven learning culture. To promote the uptake and influence of data and evidence, the Director, Strategic Learning & Impact ensures that it is timely, of high quality, and communicate in ways that are relevant and compelling to internal and external audiences at all levels – including the Foundation’s senior leadership, Board of Trustees, program leadership, communications team, grantees, and partners.
Pay Range : $181,798 - $233,971. This represents the present low and high end of the Foundation’s pay range for this position. Actual pay will vary based on various factors, including but not limited to experience.

Work Schedule : This role is an 8-month fixed-term assignment on a hybrid work schedule, and required to be in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Program/Initiative Strategy: Provide design support and strategic counsel to strengthen programmatic strategy development and adaptation throughout the initiative lifecycle.
  • Identify and manage external consultants, when relevant, to bring additional capabilities needed to develop concrete and compelling strategies approved by RF leadership and the Board.
  • Propose key strategic topics in need of refinement or review and develop structures to support teams in their strategic choice-making and assessment of tradeoffs.
  • Advise on how to select key indicators and metrics, including anchoring conversations around right-sizing short- and long-term outcomes and impact goals.
  • Provide input into ongoing strategy development by facilitating theory of change discussions, surfacing assumptions, making thinking visible, asking tough questions, and bringing the evidence base to bear.
Measurement and Evaluation: Design and manage fit-for-purpose evaluations that assess the feasibility, effectiveness, scalability, influence, and/or impact of the Foundation’s programmatic work.
  • Scope independent assessments and manage competitive processes to identify high-quality learning partners.
  • Support grantees and program officers, as needed, in the development of measurement and evaluation plans that address critical questions and drive quality improvement.
  • Design and manage fit-for-purpose assessments to fill key learning gaps responsive to decision-maker’s needs, including the development of evaluation questions, design and implementation of data collection processes, and synthesis of findings to best serve learning needs.
  • Support program teams in developing strategic learning questions and identifying high-value measurement and evaluation opportunities.
  • Manage the external evaluation and learning partner relationships and engagements that develop high-quality insights and knowledge products for teams, RF leadership, the Board, grantees, partners, co-investors, and other key stakeholders.
Strategic Learning: Manage strategic learning processes that enable shared learning and adaptation within and across teams, grantees, and partners.
  • Create tools and cultivate spaces that enable strategic learning across initiatives.
  • Champion a culture of shared learning, inquiry, experimentation, transparency, candor, commitment to learning from failures, and evidence-informed decision-making.
  • Design and manage ongoing reflection, sense-making, and learning from the work to inform potential shifts in strategy when necessary. Bring data and evidence to bear on strategic conversations.
  • Identify opportunities to share insights with the field, working with program and communications staff and learning partners to synthesize lessons and communicate findings.
Strategic Learning & Impact Function
  • Develop and refine internal systems and processes to better enable shared learning, reflection, strategy improvement, and knowledge management.
  • Keep abreast of strategic learning and evaluation trends and emerging approaches and apply them to the Foundation’s practice where possible, such as equitable evaluation, systems thinking, lean data methods, advanced facilitation techniques, etc.
  • Cultivate a network of leading experts that can expand the Foundation’s ability to support strategic learning and deliver maximum impact.
  • Build space within the Foundation’s regular business processes to foster a collaborative learning culture with room for discourse and reflection on what is and isn’t working.
  • Represent the Foundation at external events, including in the development evaluation community.

Education, Experience, and Skills
  • Comfort working across programmatic domains and bringing strategic thinking, evaluation skills, and learning orientation to bear in multiple content areas.
  • A results-oriented, entrepreneurial mindset, with an ability to work experiment, and iterate rapidly, both independently as a self-starter, as well as in teams.
  • Experience in a consultative and/or senior advisory capacity preferred.
  • Knowledge of, and deep experience with, a range of strategy development, strategic planning, and strategic learning tools and approaches.
  • High tolerance for ambiguity and ability to thrive in an environment of growth and change. Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex projects, prioritize conflicting demands and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience applying evaluation methodologies and how evaluation can be used to support strategic learning, including designing, managing, and executing developmental evaluations, rapid assessments, and learning syntheses.
  • High level of professional excellence, including demonstrated experience collaborating with a range of teams and stakeholders, experience managing complex stakeholder environments, and experience working in dynamic or ambiguous contexts and organizations.
  • Content expertise in one or more of the Foundation’s areas of programmatic work including public health, energy, climate, food systems and nutrition, innovative finance, and economic opportunity.
  • At least 12 years of experience managing impact evaluation and strategic learning assignments in the philanthropic, not-for-profit, and/or private sectors.
  • Expertise in workshop design and advanced group facilitation techniques.
  • Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Mural, Monday, and data visualization software preferred.
  • Experience applying an equity lens or conducting equity-oriented analyses.
  • Strategic listener with a high degree of self-awareness, humility, and diplomacy.
  • Advanced degree in relevant subjects such as international development, international relations, public policy, public health, education, economics, or similar areas.

Qualifications and Competencies
  • Directs Work: Provides direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done.
  • Balances Stakeholders : Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.
  • Develops Talent : Develops people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
  • Manages Complexity : Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
  • Values Differences : Recognizes the value of different perspectives and commits to inclusion, equity, and diversity in every aspect of work.
About The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation that enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish. We work to promote the well-being of humanity and make opportunity universal and sustainable. Our focus is on scaling renewable energy for all, stimulating economic mobility, and ensuring equitable access to health care and nutritious food.
The Rockefeller Foundation offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that includes health insurance programs, tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment, a generous 401K, parental leave, and various forms of paid time off, all to help our employees feel energized, cared for, and engaged.
As an organization, we focus on six values to advance our culture and continue our success. We're dedicated to being Transparent , Optimistic , Accountable , Collaborative, Trusted, and Equitable . We operate from a strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in everything that we do. It is not only the right thing to do – we could not make an impact without our team members' diverse perspectives and experiences. We expect all employees at the Foundation to contribute by developing their unique perspectives and talent, challenging conventional wisdom through evidence and reason, and amplifying marginalized voices.
The Rockefeller Foundation is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and compliance with all federal, state, and local laws concerning employment discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. To this end, the Foundation ensures equal opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, lawful alien status, physical, mental, and medical disability, veteran status, or liability for service in the United States Armed Forces.
The Rockefeller Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.