Research and Evaluation Specialist

Company Description

Job Description

The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of community-based organizations (CBOs) to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish. DYCD's initiatives include COMPASS, the City's comprehensive afterschool system, Beacon Community Centers, adult and youth literacy programs, youth employment programs, services for runaway and homeless youth, community safety programs, and community development programs.

The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of

community-based organizations (CBOs) to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities

for New Yorkers and communities to flourish. DYCD's initiatives include COMPASS, the City's

comprehensive afterschool system, Beacon Community Centers, adult and youth literacy programs,

youth employment programs, services for runaway and homeless youth, community safety programs,

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 would be situated within the Bureau of Planning, Program Integration, and Evaluation (PPIE). PPIE was established to lead DYCD's efforts to transform the agency from-three co-located

organizations to one agency focused on providing an-integrated network of neighborhood-based highquality services to New Yorkers.

PPIE's mission is to drive growth, impact, and innovation to make DYCD, its programs, and CBOs more effective. PPIE designs tools, builds processes and shapes policies to elevate the

implementation of best practices and data-informed decision-making both internally and externally.

PPIE supports continuous improvement through providing capacity building and training to DYCD staff

and providers; analyzing and elevating data and community voices; increasing funding for innovation

and expansion; and developing centralized approaches and systems to support a unified vision for

DYCD.

PPIE's core functions have evolved over time into five robust centers of excellence : -

Office of-Analytics, Performance Management, and Reporting

Office of Capacity Building-and Professional Development

Office of Planning, Program Design and Grant Development

Office of Evaluation

Office of System Integration

This role is in PPIE's 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 Senior Director of Evaluation, the Research and Evaluation Specialist will assume the

below responsibilities.

Support coordinating and overseeing DYCD's evaluation contracts, with a focus on the evaluation of

afterschool programs. 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 co-design
• 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 human-centered 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 data-informed program management and consistent

consistently implemented, and communicate evaluation findings widely to others in the agency or the

Conduct and coordinate data collection and outcomes management, particularly in afterschool

programs, which includes :

school and community-based afterschool settings.

evaluations, program logic models, agencywide Theory of Change, Requests for Proposals (RFPs),

organizations (CBOs), and other City agencies to coordinate joint initiatives

CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST - 21744

Qualifications

1. For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master's 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 full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or

2. A master's 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 full-time 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 master's 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 individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.