Summary: The Director of Program Impact is crucial to the realization of this goal by keeping our current programs operating at a high quality level and providing the means to amplify the influence of programs by ensuring that programs support desired outcomes and reach a diverse constituency in responsive and meaningful ways.
Responsibilities:
Administrative Responsibilities:
• Pioneer a systemic and innovative approach toward understanding and articulating IslandWood’s programmatic impact. This would include designing relevant and meaningful assessment mechanisms, overseeing analysis of results, and making recommendations based on findings in order to nurture a culture of evidence-based instruction.
• Assist Senior VP for Education with providing academic leadership across all of IslandWood’s education programs ensuring that programs are carefully designed to deliver meaningful, and when possible, quantifiable measures in accordance with the goals set by the team and Board.
• Increase the effectiveness of IslandWood programs in serving our diverse constituencies.
• Actively participate and show leadership in IslandWood’s diversity initiatives.
• Support program leaders toward helping IslandWood education programs improve while also becoming more effective and efficient.
• Guide program leaders in the development of annual program-related goals and ensure that benchmarks are met in a timely and effective manner. • Support the processes and culture of strategic learning, including working with staff to define and implement theories of change.
• Prepare reports regarding IslandWood program impact that are suitable for internal or external publication.
• Work closely with the Philanthropy Team to ensure the financial stability of the position.
Administrative Responsibilities:
• Pioneer a systemic and innovative approach toward understanding and articulating IslandWood’s programmatic impact. This would include designing relevant and meaningful assessment mechanisms, overseeing analysis of results, and making recommendations based on findings in order to nurture a culture of evidence-based instruction.
• Assist Senior VP for Education with providing academic leadership across all of IslandWood’s education programs ensuring that programs are carefully designed to deliver meaningful, and when possible, quantifiable measures in accordance with the goals set by the team and Board.
• Increase the effectiveness of IslandWood programs in serving our diverse constituencies.
• Actively participate and show leadership in IslandWood’s diversity initiatives.
• Support program leaders toward helping IslandWood education programs improve while also becoming more effective and efficient.
• Guide program leaders in the development of annual program-related goals and ensure that benchmarks are met in a timely and effective manner. • Support the processes and culture of strategic learning, including working with staff to define and implement theories of change.
• Prepare reports regarding IslandWood program impact that are suitable for internal or external publication.
• Work closely with the Philanthropy Team to ensure the financial stability of the position.
Other:
• Support the integration of high quality educational strategies in IslandWood events and strategic initiatives.
• Support the Graduate Programs through the teaching of seminars, classes, or if appropriate, a full course.
• Organize and lead convenings that further IslandWood’s research and evaluation activities.
• Support collaborative relationships with institutions that are, or want to become, engaged with IslandWood, especially those with the credibility and capacity to seek external grants for researching and evaluating the impact of IslandWood’s programs on student interests, skills, and conceptual knowledge.
• Actively participate and show leadership in IslandWood’s diversity initiatives.
• Represent the education team on the appropriate IslandWood committee.
• Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Required:
• Earned advanced degree in education, environmental education, learning sciences, or relate fields.
• Ability to switch between strategic and practical thinking, with exceptional qualitative an quantitative analytic skills.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting program assessment and using program assessment to change program design.
• Demonstrated experience within educational settings supporting equity, inclusion, cultural competence and/or diversity.
• Passion for learning, distilling lessons and turning them into action.
• Proficiency in planning, organization, and project management.
• Tolerance for ambiguity.
• Strong team player.
• Successful experience in collaborating with other community-based organizations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Solid computer skills in relevant software applications.
• Possess a restless pursuit for excellence in programming.
• Experience in working with individuals from a variety of cultural and economic backgrounds.
• Must pass child safety screening.
• Must comply with and maintain a smoke-free and drug-free work environment.
Desired:
• Earned doctorate in education, environmental education, learning sciences, or related fields. • Rich programmaticexperience in environmental education with a focus on community issues and
environmental justice.
• Demonstrated passion for educational reform.
• Successful experience as a professional coach.
Application Requirements:
Submit a cover letter, resume, Application for Employment, and contact information for three current references to:
employment@islandwood.org – OR
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IslandWood
4450 Blakely Avenue NE
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110