Evaluation Manager

You will be most successful in this position if:

• You have experience overseeing the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data from a variety of inputs, highlighting key trends, patterns, and outcomes.
• You can manage simultaneous projects and meet deadlines, managing multiple priorities in a dynamic and changing environment.
• Working with dynamic teams to achieve common goals is part of your practice.
• You are equally comfortable with rigorous analysis and distilling those insights into compelling narratives for internal and external audiences

Additionally, you will be prepared to take on this role if you have following experience, abilities, commitments, and skills:

Committed to:

• Advancing racial equity and social justice.
• Utilizing quantitative and qualitative data to creatively showcase the impact of funding initiatives with various audiences and decisionmakers.
• Building collaborative and trusting relationships with colleagues.
• Confidentiality and data security and protection

Experienced with:

• Utilizing data collection tools to analyze and measure impact and produce reports for government and public audiences.
• Project managing contracts with external contractors and evaluation firms.
• Supporting program staff and senior leadership to utilize data trends and findings to inform and improve grantmaking strategies and practices.
• Working knowledge of King County’s cultural arts and science sector countywide.

Skilled in:

• Working with and providing technical assistance to a broad base of constituents, especially BIPOC, immigrant, and non-English speaking communities.
• Managing large data sets with attention to detail
• Utilizing Salesforce (preferred) or a similar customer relationship management (CRM) software for data collection, analysis and report building
• Prioritizing tasks to manage competing deadlines and priorities

Have the ability to:

• Oversee the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data from key stakeholders, highlighting key trends, patterns, and areas for reflection.
• Develop quantitative and qualitative data collection tools while gaining internal buy-in from all necessary staff and key decision makers.
• Prepare dynamic and compelling reports and presentations for multiple audiences, including key conclusions and learnings, drawing from multiple sources of internal and publicly available data.
• Work independently and in team settings

Supervisory responsibilities:

This position has no supervisory responsibilities but may occasionally oversee interns/volunteers.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage annual and regular reporting requirements to support the measurement and tracking of programmatic impact of Doors Open programs as required by the Doors Open Legislation and Implementation Plan, under supervision of department director.
• Work with supervisor to regularly identify evaluation and learning priorities, update Evaluation plans accordingly, and work to realize them
• Design and implement data collection including surveys for cultural organizations and other stakeholders
• Develop reports and dashboards to communicate findings in collaboration with the Communications Director department.
• Collaborate with, train and advise the 4Culture staff in data use and evaluation best practices.
• Support data-informed storytelling and communications efforts through copy writing, analysis, and development of key metrics
• Provide timely data analysis for internal audiences, elected officials, King County Council staff and the general public.
• Manage contracting and deliverables with external consultants and evaluation consulting firms as needed.
• Provide support and guidance to staff in regards to existing data collection methods and analysis.
• Provide technical assistance to 4Culture grant recipients needing support with grant reporting requirements.
• Prepare analysis and reports on topics as requested by 4Culture’s leadership.
• Work collaboratively with program staff across the agency on projects advancing racial equity data collection, and support ongoing data tracking projects to support 4Culture’s racial equity strategies and goals.

4Culture leadership has the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time to ensure the success of the organization.

Minimum Qualifications:

We are looking for candidates that can demonstrate they have the skills listed above through a combination of their work, education, and life experience as demonstrated in their resume, and cover letter.

• Five to seven years of experience leading measurement, learning and evaluation work either as staff or as a consultant.
• Bachelors’ degree (B.A./B.S.) from an accredited institution or the combined equivalent of education and career experience.
• Experience managing and delivering end-to-end projects.
• Experience utilizing Salesforce (preferred) or a similar customer relationship manager (CRM) software for data collection, analysis and report building for multiple audiences.
• Proficiency in MS Office 365 including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and SharePoint plus Salesforce or a CRM software equivalent.

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s level coursework/degree

Work Environment

• Position works a 37.5 hour work week, Monday-Friday.
• This position will primarily be onsite 4Culture at 101 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle, WA. Seattle. This position is hybrid (3 days in the office/2 days remote).
• Occasional early morning, evening and/or weekend hours are required.
• Alternative work arrangements may be considered and will be based on operational needs.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

The perks of working at 4Culture include:

• A 37.5 work week, flex schedule
• 12 paid vacation days annually, with additional paid vacation accrual after 5 years of service
• 12 days of paid Holiday (including Juneteenth and Indigenous Peoples’ Day)
• Orca transit card
• Attractive comprehensive health insurance package consisting of medical, dental, vision, and basic life and long-term disability insurance for employees.