Raising The Village Career Page
Director of Program Research and Innovation
Toronto, ON · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 34 days ago
ResearchLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Find out more about our programs and impact at www.raisingthevillage.org.
- This is not a purely academic research role.
- Set the overall learning agenda for this portfolio, ensuring each initiative is linked to strategic questions around program enhancement, adaptation, and scale.
Responsibilities
- Intake, design & governance Lead project intake, prioritization, and stage-gate decisions so that proposed initiatives have a clear rationale, owner, scope, and decision-use case.
- Build and lead a small, high-performing team and establish strong ways of working with matrixed contributors across the organization.
- We work with last-mile communities to implement solutions that raise incomes, sustain impact, and chart sustainable pathways to possibility within 24 months.
- To date, we have supported more than two million people in Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with support from our partners and our team in North America.
Requirements
- Limited international travel may be required.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and travel insurance.
- 4 weeks of vacation.
- It is a strategic, cross-functional leadership role accountable for the full chain from project design to delivery oversight to evidence synthesis to the translation of learning into stronger program choices across RTV.
- Portfolio strategy & learning agenda Own the end-to-end portfolio of pilots, experiments, A/B tests, RCTs, and restricted-funded technical projects with explicit learning goals.
- Guide the overall evaluation and learning approach for the portfolio, balancing methodological rigor with operational feasibility and decision relevance.
- Shape the design of pilots and experiments in partnership with Programs, Applied Learning, Venn, M&E, and technical subject matter experts.
- Translate findings into recommendations for program design, module refinement, scale, and future investment choices, and ensure learning is integrated back into RTV systems and guidance.
- External engagement & team leadership Lead donor and partner engagement on relevant projects, including concept refinement, progress updates, learning briefs, and final reporting.
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