Hybrid Vice President of Research – Network Innovation

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About the role

  • Vice President of Research and Network Innovation overseeing data and research at Achieving the Dream. Driving evidence-based strategies for student success across the educational network.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a research, data, and innovation agenda aligned with ATD priorities
  • Guide organizational learning across coaching, cohorts, and grant-funded initiatives
  • Ensure insights from initiatives inform ATD’s strategy and core work
  • Represent ATD through board service, partnerships, and national engagement
  • Collaborate with partners to strengthen alignment across the field
  • Lead and support a research and data team responsible for analysis and application
  • Build a team culture focused on clarity, collaboration, and execution
  • Develop staff to serve as both analysts and partners to program and coaching teams
  • Set priorities and manage workflow to ensure timely, high-quality outputs
  • Lead applied research aligned to ATD’s work with colleges, cohorts, and grant-funded initiatives
  • Synthesize learning across coaching, the Institutional Capacity Assessment Tool (ICAT), Community Vibrancy work, and national initiatives
  • Identify patterns in institutional capacity building, student outcomes, and community impact
  • Use ATD’s Community Vibrancy Framework to connect practice, outcomes, and impact
  • Ensure learning from grant-funded initiatives is integrated into ATD’s core services and long-term strategy
  • Translate findings into guidance that informs program design, coaching, and organizational decision making
  • Lead development and refinement of ATD tools, including ICAT, Community Vibrancy workbooks, diagnostics, and planning resources
  • Oversee the continuous development and improvement of Community Vibrancy workbooks and related network tools
  • Translate research into practical tools and resources for colleges and coaches
  • Ensure learning from initiatives is reflected in tools, coaching approaches, and supports
  • Partner with coaching and program teams to apply research and tools in practice
  • Set direction for data use across the organization
  • Define and advance key measures tied to student success, institutional capacity, and Community Vibrancy
  • Oversee development and refinement of Community Vibrancy metrics for the network and the organization
  • Improve access to data for internal teams
  • Align data collection across core work and grant-funded initiatives
  • Use national and network data sources to inform analysis and decision making
  • Design data collection approaches aligned to ATD engagements
  • Improve diagnostic and assessment processes
  • Lead evaluation work tied to external funding
  • Ensure data collection across initiatives supports broader organizational learning
  • Oversee ICAT data collection and ongoing refinement
  • Analyze national and network data to identify trends and outcomes
  • Inform cohort selection and strategic planning
  • Connect external data to internal learning
  • Support reporting and recognition efforts
  • Partner with leadership to align research and data with organizational priorities
  • Work across program and internal teams to support implementation
  • Coordinate with IT on data systems and governance
  • Support Development on evaluation and outcomes for funded work

Requirements

  • Ph.D. degree in a relevant field
  • Significant experience leading research, data, or analytics work
  • Experience designing and running applied research or evaluation
  • Ability to translate research into practical tools, guidance, or decisions
  • Experience in higher education or a related field

Job title

Vice President of Research – Network Innovation

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$195,000 - $205,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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