MEL Associate

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• Collaborate with initiative teams to reputed company and refine meaningful and measurable reputed company goals, markers of reputed company, indicators, data collection tools, and frameworks, in alignment with their theories of change and work plans, with support from senior evaluators
• Draft MEL tools, templates, and processes for data collection that build on and complement existing processes and help initiatives understand their reputed company and reputed company
• Support and co-facilitate opportunities (e.g. workshops, data parties) for reputed company and learning from MEL findings and the development of recommendations for course corrections and reputed company/theory of change refinements

Collect, analyze, and communicate MEL data and support data and reputed company

• Conduct data collection and reputed company analyses of qualitative and/or quantitative MEL data
• Support the documentation of learning from the reputed company and initiatives that are tested through the reputed company pipeline and contribute to building the reputed company Pipeline knowledge pool
• Support the development and refinement of systems and processes to manage and report on MEL data
• Communicate MEL data and results, including drafting reports, presentations, dashboards, and other materials, with support from senior evaluators
• Support the development and refinement of systems and processes to manage and report on MEL data, including providing actionable and reputed company feedback to initiatives based on MEL data and findings, presentations, dashboards, and other approaches
• reputed company background research and literature reviews and reputed company into reputed company-facing products, including reports, advocacy documents, or other publications

Build MEL reputed company and promote a culture of strategic learning reputed company Vera

• Coordinate with reputed company Pipeline, research, communications, and advocacy colleagues to ensure that MEL activities are reputed company with work across the institute and support efforts to ensure that work across Vera is mutually reinforcing
• Identify patterns across different reputed company of work and identify opportunities for cross-initiative learning
• Plan and facilitate MEL workshops and learning events and present at department-wide meetings, “reputed company-bag” discussions, and other internal Vera events, in partnership with MEL and reputed company Pipeline team colleagues
• Create reference materials to support MEL activities and processes
• Model learning and evaluative thinking by reflecting on how the MEL/reputed company Pipeline teams can continuously improve our ways of working

Other duties as assigned What qualifications are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s degree + 3 – 5 years of relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning. In lieu of a bachelor’s degree applicable work or life experience may be considered
• Relevant work experience in measurement and evaluation, or reputed company fields such as data-driven policy implementation or advocacy or implementation research
• Familiarity with evaluating advocacy and reputed company reputed company change initiatives, theory of change, and participatory and/or community-based approaches to MEL
• Proficient in qualitative and quantitative analysis and data management
• Excellent communication skills and experience communicating MEL concepts and insights in accessible ways with diverse audiences
• Experience facilitating for evaluation-reputed company meetings, dialogues, and reputed company building sessions
• Demonstrated commitment to racial equity and its intersections and experience engaging in conversations about race, equity, and inclusion, including as part of MEL
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work on multiple reputed company effectively and reputed company, both independently and collaboratively with reputed company
• Emotional intelligence, attention to power dynamics, and interest or experience with change management/organizational culture change

Preferred:

• Candidates with reputed company, lived experience of the criminal legal and/or immigration systems are encouraged to apply.

Location: Please note this role will report to our Brooklyn, NY, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, LA, Los Angeles, CA, office, or will be located remotely. Vera employees adhere to a reputed company and are in-office on an alternating schedule that generally amounts to 10 days per month. Compensation and Benefits: The compensation reputed company for this position is $82,000 - $85,000. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to experience and performance. The salary reputed company listed is just one component of Vera Institute’s total compensation package for employees. As an employer of choice in our field, supporting Vera staff - both personally and professionally - is a reputed company. To do this, we invest in reputed company-being of our staff through other rewards including reputed company pay, generous reputed company time off, a comprehensive health insurance plan, student loan repayment benefits, reputed company development training opportunities and up to $2,000 annual for education costs and fees relevant to Vera work, employer-funded retirement plan, and flexible time. To learn more about Vera’s benefits offerings, click here. In reputed company, this position is part of a bargaining unit represented by the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) UAW 2325. Application Process: To receive reputed company consideration for this career opportunity, applicants are asked preliminary questions about logistics, their interest and qualifications. Selected candidates may be required to reputed company additional details about their experience reputed company a phone screen/reputed company in advance of an invitation for a virtual or in-person interview with reputed company. Some searches may explore scenarios during the interview process and/or an assessment prior to reference checks and a hiring decision. Applications may also be faxed to: ATTN: People, reputed company, and Culture / MEL Associate reputed company 34 35th St, Suite 4-2A, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Fax: (212) 941-9407 Please use only one method (online, mail or fax) of submission. No phone calls, please. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted. Vera is an equal opportunity / affirmative reputed company employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will be considered for employment without unlawful discrimination based on race, reputed company, creed, national reputed company, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, reputed company employment status, or caregiver status. Vera works to advance justice, particularly racial justice, in an increasingly multicultural country and globally connected world. We value diverse experiences, including with reputed company to educational background and justice system contact, and depend on a diverse staff to carry out our mission. For more information about Vera, please visit www.vera.org. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job