Chief Measurement & Impact Evaluation Officer

The Global Fund to End Slavery (the Fund) is being launched this year to relieve the injustice suffered by 36 million people  around the globe. Starting with a core team in Washington, DC, the Fund with $5 million in start-up funding, is seeking to leverage a $250 million challenge grant to dramatically escalate the resources available to combat modern slavery.

The Chief Measurement & Impact Evaluation Officer (CMIEO) will be a crucial member of the founding executive team and will bring extraordinary talent, passion, and commitment to establish a system of measurement that will be accepted globally as a tool in the fight to end slavery. Working closely with the CEO and fellow members of the Fund’s executive team, the CMIEO will lead the Fund’s evaluation and measurement agenda with a focus on quantifying and analyzing impact. 

The CMIEO will report to the CEO in a matrixed and highly collaborative environment. H/she will build out his/her team as necessary but must be a hands-on worker.

Professional Attributes:

• A minimum of 10+ years of experience in multi-method evaluation garnered in a consulting and/or in house monitoring and evaluation function, across a complex array of programs, initiatives, and in global environments. Experience in the anti-modern slavery field or related human rights issues is a plus.
• Technical ability to design a system that captures and assesses impact and performance data, facilitates learning, and has led to program innovation.
• Confidence, adaptability, intelligence, and ambassadorial-like gravitas.
• Demonstrated disciplined, structured, and data-driven approaches to decision making and problem solving with a sharp focus on metrics, outcomes, and results.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, detail orientation; belief in the importance of evidence- based decision making.
• Familiarity with big data analytics and ability to drive new and innovative approaches to measurement and evaluation.
• Purposeful written and oral communication skills; ability to distill essential information and tailor messages for a variety of audiences from academic publication to non-specialists.
• Language skills, particularly those spoken in the developing world, would be highly desired.
• Ability to convene and collaborate with other organizations to ensure a common approach in the field.
• Global, cross-cultural experience in the field.
• Thrives in uncharted waters; action-oriented, multidisciplinary thinker.
• Ability to leverage technology in new ways to engage constituents and smartly deploy strategic analysis.
• Advanced degree required.

• Passionate commitment to and drive towards the Fund’s mission, vision, and strategic direction.
• Thrives in a high-energy environment, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• High tolerance for ambiguity and comfortable in a start-up environment.
• Strategic thinker who has the ability to make decisions with a limited amount of data.
• Ambitious and resilient with the entrepreneurial spirit and the business know-how to create, rigorously test, and implement new ideas.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to win people over based on relationships.

Salary is competitive, commensurate with experience.

Application Process