Director, Professional Research & Evaluation Services
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JobgetherResearch & Evaluation
Based in United StatesFull-TimeDirector
Salary79,930 - 107,900 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementBusiness DevelopmentClient relationship management
Requirements
- Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is required; a doctoral degree is preferred.
- 8+ years of experience in professional research, evaluation, consulting, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated experience developing project scopes, proposals, engagement strategies, and negotiating with clients or partners.
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects or a complex professional services portfolio.
- Experience supervising teams or leading project-based contributors in applied research, consulting, evaluation, or similar environments.
- Experience working within higher education is preferred.
- Strong command of research design, program evaluation frameworks, and quantitative and qualitative research methods.
- Ability to apply research and evaluation methodologies effectively to real-world organizational and community challenges.
- Strong business acumen, including an understanding of pricing, cost modeling, financial drivers, resource utilization, and sustainable service delivery.
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve processes, scalability, efficiency, and client outcomes.
- Excellent client relationship management, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and delivery of externally facing research, evaluation, consulting, and advisory engagements aligned with institutional priorities and client needs.
- Partner with clients and external organizations to understand their objectives and translate them into appropriate research, evaluation, or advisory solutions.
- Develop scopes of work, proposals, engagement strategies, and other materials supporting new and existing client opportunities.
- Oversee a portfolio of concurrent projects, ensuring high-quality, timely, and cost-effective delivery of project outcomes and work products.
- Coordinate faculty, staff, students, internal contributors, and external partners to ensure effective project execution and achievement of engagement objectives.
- Monitor contract performance, expenditures, staffing costs, contribution margins, resource utilization, and delivery risks.
- Build trusted, long-term relationships with clients and community partners while serving as a strategic advisor and primary point of contact across engagements.
- Identify opportunities to expand existing partnerships, develop new engagements, increase portfolio revenue, and broaden organizational and community impact.
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