Evaluator

The Center for Health Training (CHT) is a well-regarded not-for-profit training, technical assistance and research/evaluation agency committed to improving health and social services organizations' abilities to deliver accessible, high quality, culturally proficient, and compassionate services to their clients. The Evaluator is responsible for a broad range of activities within the agency’s research, evaluation and performance monitoring projects, including: instrument development, data collection coordination, data management, analysis, and preparation of reports.

Experience required in all phases of health/human service field-based research and evaluation arenas. Expertise conducting evaluation capacity building for community-based organizations and performing quantitative statistical analyses preferred. Ability to communicate research and evaluation data to a wide range of audiences required.

Required: Minimum of three (3) years of quantitative data collection and analysis experience.

Specific Duties
• Design plans to evaluate capacity building to local community-based youth-serving organizations.
• Develop and implement rigorous evaluation of capacity building training and technical assistance.
• Assist project team to develop program logic models that link project objectives and activities to evaluation plan.
• Implement quantitative and qualitative data collection activities.
• Generate analyses, reports, articles and data summaries for dissemination to funding agencies and local organizations.
• Promote communication of data and research to local community partners in order to inform program development.
• Provide technical assistance to local organizations on process and outcome evaluation steps.
• Participate in state and national evaluation workgroup meetings.

Skills & Abilities
• Graduate level degree in public health, social sciences, or comparable fields.
• Experience with SPSS, Access, PowerPoint and word processing applications.
• Demonstrated experience in managing community-based participatory evaluation and research projects.
• Experience with quantitative and qualitative data management, analysis and word processing applications.
• Record of successful project management and strong organizational skills
• Ability to work with a variety of individuals from diverse community-based groups and organizations;
• Knowledge of science-based approaches to teen pregnancy prevention, HIV and STI content areas preferred.
• Ability to communicate clearly in writing and verbally with individuals and groups.

CHT seeks to recruit the best-qualified people for its staff. In doing so, it will afford equal opportunity for employment, training, promotion, and compensation to all persons without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, religion, HIV status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, veterans’ or military status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. CHT complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws that prohibit discrimination in the workplace.

Please submit a resume and letter of interest to seattle@jba-cht.com. Please write “Evaluator” in the subject line.