Program Manager – Impact & Evaluation

Program Manager – Impact & Evaluation

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree required.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant professional experience required. Graduate degree may be substituted for up to two (2) years of experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience researching, analyzing and communicating findings from datasets commonly used in housing, demographics, and community development research.
• Knowledge of housing and community development issues, urban economics, demographics and/or real estate development.
• Demonstrated experience with extracting and analyzing data from common housing and demographic data sources such as the Census Bureau (e.g., ACS and PUMS), HUD (e.g., Picture of Subsidized Households, CHAS, LIHTC database), the National Housing Preservation Database (NHPD), the FFIEC Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), and other familiar sources used in the field.
• Proficiency with standard statistical methods and software (proficiency in R or Python).
• Experience visually representing quantitative information through maps, charts, graphics, etc. Demonstrated proficiency with one or more geographic information systems required (e.g., ArcGIS Pro/ArcGIS Online, QGIS).
• Expertise with Microsoft Office software (especially Excel and Power BI).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience writing research briefs, reports or case studies.
• Experience working with diverse, collaborative teams, virtually or in person. Positive attitude, patience, and willingness to listen to and teach experts in other fields.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills; ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage in the full life cycle of Enterprise’s evaluation and impact assessment projects, including project scoping and design, client management, data collection and analysis, documentation, and presentation of findings.
• Build strong, trust-based relationships across teams and at all levels of the organization, and with external clients and stakeholders.
• Support programs across Enterprise by responding to requests for data advisory and analysis services in a timely and professional manner.
• Develop data visualizations, interactive dashboards, and written reports that effectively communicate findings to a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Increase and maintain the accuracy and efficiency of our data analysis work through data cleaning, code development, QA.
• With support from senior staff, conduct mixed-methods data collection and analyses through design and implementation of surveys, interviews and other qualitative methods alongside quantitative analysis.
• Perform quality assurance reviews on work produced by other members of the team in a cooperative manner that advances the department’s overall commitment to accuracy.
• Create and maintain proper documentation for key processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Qualitative analysis using platforms such as NVivo.
• Experiences with administrative datasets.