GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Evaluation Associate (EA), Community Engagement, will support the evaluation of the Healthy Food for Denver’s Kids Initiative (HFDK). The work will involve the evaluation of 50+ programs, locally funded across Denver, to understand their successes and challenges, to improve healthy food access and nutrition education for children, youth, and their families living in Denver. The EA will provide day-to-day coordination and assistance to support grantees in their data tracking, collection, community engagement approaches, and reporting, and will work with CAI Evaluation Team to analyze data to promote programmatic impact and assess meaningful outcomes for Denver, the initiative, grantees, and the communities they serve.
MAJOR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (include, but are not limited to):
- Assist with the coordination and implementation of research and evaluation activities
- Regularly clean data, conduct descriptive data analysis, and maintain project databases
- Assist in writing reports, developing PowerPoint presentations, and producing data summaries/dashboards
- Provide evaluation-related training and TA to grantees to build their evaluation capacity and continuous program learning and development
- Build relationships with grantees, through TA, to design, implement, and report on data that fulfills grantees’ data reporting requirements and meets the needs of the evaluation
- Serve as liaison with grantees to communicate about CAI’s learning and evaluation capacity building opportunities, reporting requirements, and other meetings and deadlines
- Support activities to gather community feedback about needs/strengths related to food security efforts and food/nutrition education
- Perform various administrative duties including coordinating timelines, data entry, schedule coordination, and database and file management.
- Perform other duties as necessary/assigned.
MINIMUM EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND OTHER SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Undergraduate degree in health/social sciences, public health, or comparable field preferred.
- 1-2 years of pertinent full-time work preferred.
- Experience working in evaluation or research in a social sciences setting.
- Experience with qualitative and quantitative data analysis software and data collection/management programs (e.g., Excel, MaxQDA, R, STATA, SPSS, REDCap, etc.)
- Strong writing and communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and adept at managing multiple projects and priorities.
- Creative mindset, ability to think outside boundaries, and ability to present data-centric information in innovative and creative ways.
- Experience working with community-based members and organizations on program evaluation
- Ability to travel locally in Denver (approximately 20% of the time)
- Fluent in Spanish (strongly preferred)
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the Evaluation Associate’s job. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions of the Evaluation Associate’s job.
While performing the Evaluation Associate’s responsibilities, the employee is required to talk and hear. This position requires the employee to be on-site at the CAI Denver office. The employee is often required to sit and work at a desk for prolonged periods of time and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the Evaluation Associate’s position and it is not intended to be an exhaustive list of skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Other requirements
In keeping with CAI’s “safety first” approach during the COVID-19 epidemic, to ensure the health of our employees and the public whom we interact with, we are requiring all CAI employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. New hires must show proof of at least one vaccine shot prior to their first day of work. (If someone is unable to obtain a vaccine due to a medical/disability or religious reason, they may contact CAI’s HR department; contact information will be provided as part of the interview process.)
Compensation
The salary range for this position is $60,000- $65,000. CAI offers a generous benefits package including:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible spending Account (FSA)
- Dependent Care Account (DCA)
- Transit Reimbursement Account
- Life Insurance – company sponsored up to $50,000
- Long term disability (LTD)
- Short term disability (STD)
- 401K retirement plan after three (3) months of employment
- 401K company match of up to 3% of salary after the completion of one (1) year of service
- Semi-monthly payroll, the 15th and last day of each month
- Flexible and Hybrid work schedules
- Ability to work fully remotely up to 3 weeks each calendar year
Vacation and Leave benefits:
- 11 Holidays per year
- 2 Personal days year
- 12 Sick days per year
- 10-15 Vacation days per year increasing after 4 years of service
- 1 Cancer Screening Day per year
- Bereavement Leave
- Jury Duty Leave
CAI is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
