Location: Yerevan, Armenia
Category: Education/training
Type: Fixed term contract
Deadline: 27-Mar-20 12:00:00 AM
Salary:
Description
Responsibilities
The Work:
For this role, the key responsibilities will include:
- Lead Internal Continuous Improvement of Teach For Armenia’s Program (40%)
- Work closely with the leaders of the organization to influence Teach For Armenia’s strategic decision making through evidence, data and examples of best practice.
- Train staff in measurement and evaluation tools to develop organizational capability in the evaluation and continuous improvement.
- Maintain and update data collection activities and data management in Salesforce.
- Support the organization to make evidence-based decisions through designing research and evaluation questions and methodologies, communicating findings and recommendations, and planning for the implementation of changes.
- Expand the Understanding of Teach For Armenia’s Impact (30%)
- Lead internal (and support external) research or evaluation projects, including on educational disadvantage, student achievement, and teacher effectiveness.
- Provide clear qualitative and quantitative analysis of progress against organizational goals, by analyzing and synthesizing organization-wide data and other research.
- Work closely with the Teach For All network to keep abreast of measurement, monitoring, and evaluation best practices and bring them back into the organization.
- Support all teams with the development and maintenance of SalesForce.
- Communicate Teach For Armenia’s Impact (20%)
- Craft and support the creation of quantitative and qualitative reports that are clear, accurate, and accessible to teams individually, across the organization and to external stakeholders.
- Conduct internal step-backs during the year to make sure the whole organization understands the impact each team is having and how to leverage it.
- Participating in Org-Wide and Cross-Collaborative Initiatives (10%)
- Alongside with other Directors and staff participate at regular org-wide events and initiatives to build up on the organizational culture and be a part of the key strategic meetings and events.
- Serve on other working groups and projects as needed.
NOTE: Teach For Armenia is a growing nonprofit working within a dynamic system. Our team must be agile as we grow in scale. We are looking for leaders who are resilient and adaptive. That is to say that responsibilities may shift over time.
RequiredQualifications
About You:
Teach For Armenia may be the place for you if you believe it is important to foster a values-driven workplace that is centered on leadership. Our team must be comprised of culture-builders who exemplify the type of leadership we are striving to cultivate in our classrooms and across the system. This means each staff member must strive to exemplify our Kochari, hold ourselves to the highest of standards while owning up to mistakes when we ourselves falter.
For this role specifically, we are also looking for a candidate who possesses the following key competencies:
- Research mindset: This role entails strong numerical, analytical and qualitative analysis. The candidate will analyze and report on existing measurement tools and lead research efforts for internal and external purposes to improve Teach For Armenia’s program.
- Building Systems & Structures: The Data & Impact Manager must be highly organized and able to build robust systems and structures that will support the organization’s continuous growth.
- Project Management: The Data & Impact Manager will be supporting projects and staff members in different teams, so this role entails strong planning skills and the ability to work independently in various projects at the same time, understanding which other team members and resources are needed for them to be successful.
- Collaboration: Even though the Data & Impact Manager will sit in the Learning and Innovation Team, this role entails working across diverse teams, with exceptional relationship-building skills, and the ability to explain complex concepts in simple terms.
- Adaptive & Agile: The Data & Impact Manager will often need to meet staff members where they are. Meaning, some staff members may be highly experienced with data, and others may be new to it. Additionally, it will be important to be agile, given the dynamic nature of our work.
Aside from these core competencies, we are also looking for the following qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
- At least two years of experience in similar impact, data or evaluation-focused roles.
- Experience and confidence in internal monitoring & evaluation, and/or conducting research and/or evaluations, and communicating the results.
- Excellent knowledge of Armenian and English.
- Desired knowledge of data management systems (e.g. Salesforce).
- Experience in the Armenian education system is an asset.
- Experience with Agile project management would be a plus.
Benefits
Job URL: iJob.am - Data and Impact Manager @ Teach For Armenia
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