Research & Evaluation Officer

Our Mission: We coach and support students from low socioeconomic backgrounds to prepare for and graduate from college as transformational leaders in order to forge a just and equitable society.
College Success Foundation?believes in?respecting, upholding, and reflecting diversity and is committed to becoming?an?anti-racist?organization.?By leading with equity, and utilizing an anti-racist lens in our work, we center diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We believe students win when we have a high-performing culture that is committed to eliminating barriers to student achievement. Our passion is fostering educational equity, making college accessible and affordable to underserved students from low-income families.

POSITION SUMMARY: The Research and Evaluation Officer leads internal and external evaluation activity for the Postsecondary Regional Equity on the Peninsula (PREP) project in the Northwest Coastal Region for College Success Foundation (CSF); PREP is a strategic regional partnership project focused on increasing high school-to-college enrollment rates for CSF mission populations on the Olympic Peninsula. This role supports the development and execution of PREP project strategy particularly in the areas of data collection and analysis, while contributing to CSF's role as a college access thought leader.
Due to the frequency of in-person meetings with PREP project partners, there is a preference for prospective candidates to live on or near the Olympic Peninsula.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
The items listed in this section are the primary duties and responsibilities for this job and do not represent an exhaustive list. Our organization is dynamic and therefore duties may change based on business necessity; however, any new duties will remain within the scope of the job.
• Partners with the AVP of Research, Evaluation & Learning (REL), the Executive Director of the Northwest Costal Region, and community partners with PREP to implement a comprehensive evaluation framework that provides rigorous data to inform and understand the progress and impact of PREP.
• Supports PREP Program evaluation strategy through construction and management of logic models, theories of change, and evaluation plans.
• Develops processes and procedures in concert with the PREP Program team to consistently, accurately, and efficiently collect critical student-level outcome data.
• Collaborates with CSF CRM and Programs team members to develop and implement instruments and processes related to data collection, analysis, and reporting for the PREP project.
• Participates in evaluation projects undertaken by the REL team, assisting in the completion of research and evaluation activity and the delivery of related deliverables back to the AVP of Research & Evaluation, Program Teams or Senior Leadership.
• Analyzes data and prepares written reports on the results using software tools such as SPSS, STATA, or MS Access, Microsoft Power PI, Tableau Public, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Supports data collection and visualization for PREP performance tracking tools.
• Builds and fosters relationships with PREP regional partners.
• Facilitates meetings to discuss reports, key program metrics and/or other data with PREP partners, Program teams and Senior Leadership.