Raising The Village Career Page

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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