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YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish Outcome and Evaluation Specialist in Seattle, Washington
Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish?
YWCA SKS is the region's largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. When you work with YWCA, you make a difference.
We're women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30+ hours), you'll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work -- apply today!
**What You'll Do
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As the Outcome and Evaluation Specialist, you'll work on a wide variety of strategic data projects in order to help us understand the experiences and outcomes of our program participants and identify successes, areas for improvement, and gaps/inequities in services.
This position has a strong social justice component that will require critical thinking around how external systems impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principles of antiracism work and grounding those principles in everyday work, as well as working well in non-white environments and championing anti-racism policy, are required job skills and core values.
As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.
Highly Recommended: Please submit your resume and cover letter.
**ABOUT OUR TEAM:
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We are a small team of data specialists who maintain and support YWCA client data systems and infrastructure, ensure data quality, and work to make client data collection and analysis open and accessible to all, in order to advance YWCA's mission of eliminating racism and empowering women. We value transparency, accountability, collaboration and self-directed learning, in a supportive but fast-paced environment.
Expectations of your role:
- Strategic and RSJ Data Initiatives
- Provide both strategic and operational support for high level agency-wide data initiatives while using a strong RSJ lens
- Serve as a permanent member of the YWCA Program Cabinet; attend monthly meetings; participate in or lead (as appropriate) a wide variety of related data projects
- Collaborate with Data Analyst and CDIS Director to provide reporting and analysis of client survey data and determine ways to incorporate client survey data into annual reporting
- Data Outcomes and Impact
- Compile outcome data reports for agency-wide and programmatic purposes
- Collaborate with CDIS Director and other staff to re-envision YWCA's outcome data collection practices and identify ways to better show YWCA's impact using existing data sources
- Collaborate with Data Analyst to identify and report on potential disparities and inequities within YWCA service areas and programs
- Data Collection and Evaluation
- Work with Client Data team and program leadership to identify key areas of improvement, determine initial priorities, and develop implementation plans for data collection
- Lead the development and implementation of new agency-wide strategic/RSJ indicators
- Help lead discovery process, selection, and implementation of new enterprise client data system, with a focus on agency-wide evaluation, impact, and outcome needs
Must have's to be successful:
(5) years of progressively responsible experience in data systems, evaluation, data administration, or other relevant p