Program Evaluator – State & Local Outcomes, Human Services, BH, Justice

Job Description:

• Design and lead process, outcome, and impact evaluations for state and local human-services, behavioral-health, justice, and family-support programs
• Build logic models, theories of change, performance measures, and evaluation plans agencies can defend to funders and oversight bodies
• Analyze administrative, case-management, and survey data; report outcomes boards and program leaders can use
• Conduct key-informant interviews, site visits, and structured document review as the design requires
• Translate findings into actionable recommendations and clear limitations language
• Support AlphaGov proposals with evaluation methods, roles, and past-performance narrative when naming is authorized
• Coordinate with workforce-evaluation and survey SMEs when scopes cross program types
• Keep engagement project-based and contingent on award / staffing need, not speculative bench staffing

Requirements:

• Seven or more years program evaluation, applied social science, public policy, or outcomes research for government or public consulting
• Direct evaluation experience on state/local human services, behavioral health, justice, fatherhood/family, or related public programs
• Ability to produce logic models, evaluation frameworks, and performance measures
• Strong mixed-methods design, writing, and presentation skills for non-technical audiences
• Comfortable as a project-based collaborator; remote US with occasional travel
• Behavioral health, criminal justice, child welfare, or fatherhood/family program evaluation and past performance
• Familiarity with state audit/oversight reporting or federally funded social-program evaluation standards
• Survey and qualitative protocol design that pairs with administrative-data analysis
• Prior named key-personnel role on public-sector evaluation proposals

Benefits:

• Remote-first engagements
• Occasional client travel
• Project-based collaborator engagements
• Opportunity to be named as an expert collaborator or key personnel on matching proposals when authorized