Sobre esta vaga de Lead Evaluator, Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs na Dexis
Dexis is a dynamic professional services firm dedicated to partnering with government and community leaders both in the U.S. and internationally to achieve critical social outcomes in a rapidly changing world.
At Dexis, you will experience a corporate culture of inclusiveness, respect, fairness, and trust. You will be given the means and mentorship needed to succeed, and your creativity will be rewarded.
About the Position
Dexis is seeking a Lead Evaluator to provide technical leadership for an anticipated monitoring, evaluation, and data services contract with ILAB. The contract will support performance evaluations, rapid and ad hoc studies, training and technical assistance, data quality assessments, data analysis, visualization, and synthesis across ILAB-funded technical assistance projects and other program areas.
The Lead Evaluator will oversee the planning, implementation, quality assurance, and utilization of monitoring, evaluation, and learning assignments. The Lead Evaluator will match specialists to assignment requirements, guide teams, approve technical work, and ensure findings and recommendations are methodologically sound, evidence-based, and useful to decision-makers.
This position is contingent upon award.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, implementation, and utilization stages of monitoring, evaluation, and learning assignments.
- Provide technical leadership for interim, final, thematic, rapid, and other performance evaluations.
- Translate priority questions into appropriate designs, methodologies, data collection plans, and analytical approaches.
- Lead terms of reference, evaluation plans, instruments, frameworks, reports, briefs, presentations, and other deliverables.
- Ensure designs and methods fit the questions, available data, context, schedule, and level of effort.
- Match specialists’ methodological, sectoral, geographic, and language expertise to assignments.
- Guide and mentor evaluators, analysts, facilitators, data specialists, and other bench personnel.
- Conduct technical quality reviews and approve work products before submission.
- Lead or support interviews, site visits, observations, workshops, trainings, and field data collection.
- Oversee qualitative and quantitative analysis of documentation, indicators, stakeholder input, and other data.
- Support rapid studies, cross-project analyses, political economy analysis, stakeholder validation, risk analysis, and situational analysis.
- Design and facilitate trainings, collaborative learning activities, sense-making sessions, and cross-team workshops.
- Support data quality assessments, indicator development, evaluation planning, adaptive management, and use of findings.
- Ensure findings and recommendations are accurate, evidence-based, and suited to the intended audience.
- Adapt approaches based on stakeholder input without expanding beyond approved priority questions.
- Ensure deliverables meet accessibility, data protection, confidentiality, and PII requirements.
- Verify any AI-assisted analysis or content before it is included in a deliverable.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or higher.
- At least eight years of recent monitoring, evaluation, and learning experience with international development projects in communities and among populations comparable to those served by ILAB projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading evaluation teams and producing high-quality deliverables.
- Recent experience, within the past three years, leading evaluation teams virtually and through hybrid arrangements.
- Technical expertise in program evaluation, performance monitoring, indicator development, data analysis, data use, and learning facilitation.
- Ability to design trainings, create tools that elicit collective thinking, and lead cross-team learning workshops.
- Ability to apply portfolio approaches and provide actionable feedback on thematic issues.
- Experience with at least one of the following: adaptive evaluation; Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation; rapid evaluation; or use of artificial intelligence in evaluation.
- Ability to respond to stakeholder input and communicate findings persuasively to support program improvement.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Ability to produce high-quality English-language deliverables on schedule.
Preferred Qualifications
- Fluency in one or more languages used where ILAB projects are implemented.
- Experience evaluating or researching labor rights programs or initiatives.
- Experience related to child labor, forced labor, human trafficking, worker rights, labor law enforcement, trade and labor commitments, or global supply chains.
- Experience leading multilingual evaluations involving geographically dispersed stakeholders.
- Experience obtaining or supporting Institutional Review Board or other ethical research clearance.
- Experience translating complex evidence into decision briefs, visualizations, presentations, or products for non-technical audiences.
Below is the pay range aligned with this position. When developing a range, Dexis evaluates compensation holistically, triangulating between external market research, our budget for the position, and internal equity to arrive at a figure that is fair and competitive. Offers within this range will be based on an individual candidate's qualification, relevant education and experience, skills, performance, and organizational needs.
Benefits
Dexis offers benefits to support employees’ health, financial security, and well-being. The benefits outlined below are for full-time, US-based positions only. These benefits include:
- Medical and prescription drug coverage: A choice of three UnitedHealthcare medical plans, with coverage options for employees and eligible dependents.
- Dental insurance: Dental coverage for employees and eligible dependents, including preventive, basic, major, and orthodontic services, subject to plan limits.
- Company-paid vision insurance: Vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents, with premiums paid in full by Dexis.
- Employer-funded health reimbursement arrangement (HRA): Employees who enroll in the Silver HRA medical plan receive an employer-funded HRA to help pay eligible in-network deductible expenses.
- Company-paid life and disability insurance: Basic life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Optional supplemental insurance: Voluntary supplemental life and AD&D insurance options, including life insurance options for eligible dependents.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Company-paid access to confidential counseling and legal and financial support resources for employees and their families.
- Health and wellness resources: Virtual care, behavioral health resources, and wellness programs available through the medical plan.
- Benefits assistance: Personalized support with benefit enrollment, coverage questions, claims, and finding providers through the Employee Care Center.
Participation, coverage, and employee contributions are subject to applicable benefit plan terms and eligibility requirements.
Dexis is on a mission to help solve today’s most pressing global political, social, and economic challenges and create a world where all people are safe and prosperous. As a Dexis employee, you will be challenged, empowered, and mentored. Our motto is “find a way or make a way” — that’s how Dexis goes “all in.” How will you?
If you are passionate about this opportunity, apply now!
Only those applicants who meet the above criteria will be contacted for interview.
Dexis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, pregnancy, disability, age, genetic information, military service, veteran status, ethnicity, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, childbirth and related medical conditions, including lactation, or any other protected class under applicable law.
As part of a competitive benefits package for eligible employees, Dexis provides healthcare insurance in addition to other staff welfare benefits and perks.
