Research and Evaluation Manager

Research and Evaluation Manager

 

Are you interested in working in a dynamic environment that offers opportunities for professional growth and new responsibilities? Are you interested in helping clients drive alignment with their business, improve organizational and human resource performance and establish a culture focused on adding business value? If you are seeking a role that offers you the opportunity to advise Government and Public Services (GPS) clients through critical and complex issues, while allowing you to develop personally and professionally, consider a career in Deloitte’s Human Capital practice. 

 

Work you’ll do

  

As a Deloitte Consulting Research and Evaluation Manager, you will:

·       Lead a team of 10 staff completing research and evaluation activities

·       Lead a national study evaluating preparedness in America

·       Lead studies using surveys, focus groups, and cognitive testing

·       Lead overall evaluation activities for the division

·       Oversee analytics team on division-wide reporting

·       Oversee literature review and research on best practices for disaster preparedness

·       Manage the development of multiple work products simultaneously

·       Manage activities, schedules, and budgets

·       Provide technical input and guidance for the planning and implementation of large scale, multi-year, multi-site program evaluations using mixed methods approaches

·       Identify advanced and innovative program evaluation approaches to enhance the robustness and utility of evaluation findings

·       Participate in technical delivery of evaluation tasks, including but not limited to the development of indicators, development of data collection tools, conducting data collection and analysis, and report writing

·       Establish, monitor, and revise work plans and budgets for client projects and support contractual reporting requirements

·       Manage day-to-day activities of program evaluation teams, including defining scopes of work, developing guidance to maintain technical integrity of the work and deliverables, and overseeing the quality of deliverables

·       Facilitate client and stakeholder meetings, webinars, and workshops

·       Contribute to proposal development through technical writing, recruiting personnel, and participating in internal firm initiative to grow business

·       Develop technical manuscripts for publication

·       Support personnel development and career advancement

 

The team 

 

The Organization Transformation practice is about transforming the organization (and the benefits providers that serve them) to support its business strategy. This involves helping our clients move from where they are today to where they need to be in the future. It could include changing the organization’s culture, modernizing specific functions, re-designing the organization structure, and will require a combination of change management actions to execute the transformation. To enable our success, it will be critical to use data and insights to inform better ways of working together.   

 

Qualifications  

 

Required:

·       Bachelor’s degree

·       8 years of research and evaluation experience

·       8 years of program and project management experience

·       Project Management Professional Certification

·       Experience with research methods & research and evaluations study design

·       Experience with qualitative data collection, data analysis and manipulation

·       Experience with survey development and administration & Survey analysis

·       Experience with report design, training and workshop facilitation

·       Experience with team management

·       Experience with government policy evaluation

·       Experience with client relationship & management and core consulting skills

·       Expert proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

·       Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

 

Preferred

·       Prior consulting experience with demonstrated experience managing large government contracts

·       Academic training and 7 years of experience in health services research and evaluation methods, including both quantitative and qualitative methods

·       Training and practical experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection, data analysis, and report writing

·       Experience in designing and conducting multi-site, prospective evaluation studies

·       Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously

·       Demonstrated experience managing large and diverse team structures

·       Prior work experience with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or other US Department of Health and Human Services agencies

·       Strong writing and communication skills

·       Client management and meeting facilitation skills

·       Demonstrated ability to write successful technical proposals and manage the proposal development process

·       Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment

·       Some travel may be required (While travel may be required for the role, due to COVID-19, non-essential travel has been suspended until further notice.)

 

How you’ll grow 

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world.  From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. 

  

Benefits 

At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you. 

  

Deloitte’s culture 

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our people to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them to be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and are continuously looking for new ways to maintain a culture where our people excel and lead healthy, happy lives.   

  

Corporate citizenship 

Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our people and our communities.  We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.  Learn more about Deloitte’s impact on the world. 

  

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