Research and Evaluation Specialist
Research and Evaluation Specialist
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Job Description
The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of
communitybased organizations (CBOs) to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities
for New Yorkers and communities to flourish.
DYCDs initiatives include COMPASS (the Citys comprehensive afterschool system) Beacon Community Centers adult and youth literacy programs
youth employment programs services for runaway and homeless youth antiviolence initiatives and
community development programs.
DYCD also collaborates with other City agencies on a range of mayoral initiatives to improve City services and ensure greater opportunities for minority and immigrant youth and families.
This role is situated within the Bureau of Planning Program Integration and Evaluation (PPIE) which
promotes datadriven and evidenceinformed decisionmaking across DYCD and provides training and
technical assistance to service providers to ensure highquality services in communities through
capacity building.
This role is in PPIEs Evaluation team which is responsible for managing the
development of monitoring and evaluation indicators for the agency supporting outcomes
development and tracking and overseeing evaluation projects completed by external evaluation firms.
Reporting to the Director of Evaluation the Research and Evaluation Specialist will:
Support coordinating and overseeing DYCDs evaluation contracts with a focus on the evaluation of
workforce programs that address barriers to employment and create networks of supports to improve
community safety. Evaluation support includes:
Writing vendor solicitations and supporting the design of effective scopes for program evaluation
projects;
Ensuring that evaluation and research designs proposed by external evaluators are appropriate and
confidentiality protocols are adhered to;
Coordinating communication and project management with external evaluators including codesign of
data collection tools project methodology reports and other deliverables;
Ensuring external evaluators are abiding by best practices in evaluation including participatory action
research and humancentered design as applicable;
Preparing summaries and reports on results of evaluation and research findings and processes
presentations testimony and memoranda; design and facilitate presentations to support agencywide
and external learning encouraging datainformed program management and consistent
implementation in policies and practices;
Support the design revision and data entry of indicators for DYCDs Evaluation and Monitoring
System (EMS) to improve data quality and use;
Partner with units across the agency to ensure evaluation findings are translated into change and
consistently implemented;
Communicate evaluation findings widely to others in the agency or the field more broadly as
appropriate;
Learn DYCDs contracting process from start to finish and support PPIE Operations contracting
activities including:
Coordinating contracting and amendment processes including issuing new contracts and
amendments and task orders and change orders;
Tracking registration status and spending for PPIEs evaluation and capacity building contracts;
Coordinating with other DYCD teams including Fiscal Legal Procurement Accounts Payable and others as needed to ensure timely registration of contract actions as well as ensuring timely invoicing and contractor payments;
Developing expertise in the Citys new contracting system PASSPort and serving as the Bureaus
primary point of contact for the transition to this system;
Collaborate across PPIE to ensure alignment and mutual reinforcement between external evaluations
program logic models agencywide Theory of Change Requests for Proposals (RFPs) EMS
indicators and referrals to Capacity Building supports;
Additional tasks as needed including interacting with other DYCD bureaus communitybased
organizations (CBOs) and other City agencies to coordinate joint initiatives.
Qualifications :
1. For Assignment Level I (only physical biological and environmental sciences and public health) A masters degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and one year of fulltime experience in a responsible supervisory administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A masters degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and three years of responsible fulltime research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least a masters degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in 2 above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in 1 and 2 above.
NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
