The Rockefeller Foundation: Strategic Learning & Impact Job Opportunities
Rachel Brunello
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The Strategic Learning & Impact team works with Foundation staff, grantees, and partners to set clear strategies, measure progress toward impact, and enable adaptation based on insights and lessons learned. As such, the team designs and facilitates the Foundation’s efforts to proactively measure, assess, learn, and share insights from its work.
The Director, Strategic Learning & Impact is an integral part of the Foundation’s strategic learning team, responsible for anchoring the full learning and adaptive management cycle for 1-2 programmatic initiatives – from supporting the strategy design process to designing, guiding, and managing measurement and evaluation work to building systems and processes that enable strategic learning and course correction throughout implementation. The Director, Strategic Learning & Impact supports internal sense-making around programmatic data on progress and results and manages right-sized independent evaluative activities such as developmental evaluations, rapid assessments, and learning syntheses.
The Senior Associate, Strategic Learning & Impact plays a critical role in supporting the full strategic learning cycle within and across initiatives at the Foundation, from strategy development to measurement and evaluation to learning and adaptation. Working in close partnership with program and Strategic Learning & Impact team members, the Senior Associate will contribute to improving how the Foundation assesses its work and builds a culture of shared learning. They will assist in strengthening our strategic learning muscle across the Foundation to ensure evidence and insights are understood and applied—harnessing successes, learning from mistakes and refining strategies where needed. To support the Foundation’s approach to evidence-based decision making, the Senior Associate will be responsible for making complex information readily accessible to decision makers through the development of best-in-class internal systems, rapid feedback loops, distillation of insights, etc. The work will be fast paced, often ambiguous, and spread across multiple, diverse projects and teams simultaneously.
Kind regards,
Rachel Brunello (she/her)
Coordinator, Human Resources
The Rockefeller Foundation