REDF is a venture philanthropy organization that invests in social enterprises that employ and empower people overcoming barriers to work. REDF has over 20 years of experience collecting, analyzing, and using data to move the field forward, inform evidence-based public policy, and help tell the stories of people whose lives have been transformed by employment social enterprises (ESEs). More details about REDF’s evidence-building history are available at https://redf.org/the-impact/measurement-evaluation/.
The Learning and Evidence Director will lead implementation of REDF’s learning and evidence strategy guided by the organizational theory of change and related logic models for each program. The Director will play a key role in the organization’s efforts to strengthen its culture of learning and the evidence base for employment social enterprises, by leading activities and processes to ensure that REDF leadership, staff, and grantees can continuously generate and use evidence to improve outcomes for social enterprises and their employees and increase investment in the field. The Director will help to raise the profile of the social enterprise field by developing external relationships and helping to widely disseminate evidence and learning.