Now Hiring: Project Manager – Evaluation

Join our dynamic team of consultants committed to building healthy, just, and equitable communities.

Position: Project Manager – Evaluation, Full-time, Exempt
Location: Remote, U.S.
Salary: $70,000 – $80,000

About Us

Grassroots Solutions is an engagement strategy and evaluation consulting firm, majority-owned by women, with a diverse team based in eight states and the District of Columbia who come from backgrounds in advocacy, organizing, campaigns, and philanthropy. Since our founding in 1999, we have worked with a wide range of philanthropic, electoral, nonprofit, and advocacy organizations in the U.S. and other countries. Our client partnerships are deeply grounded in our experience as both practitioners and evaluators. Our team’s collective experience ranges in scope, geography, and sector, including conducting state-focused organizing and capacity building assessments, providing strategic insight to initiatives and campaigns, acting as long-term learning partners for philanthropies and their collaborators, and conducting large-scale program evaluations.

Our clients are impatient for change in the communities they serve. So are we. To us, evaluation is leverage that helps unstick people and organizations in the face of both complex problems and opportunities. At its most potent, we believe can contribute to the learning necessary to achieve the transformative changes—dismantling structural and systemic racism, realizing a healthy and equitable democracy, focusing climate action on the people most affected, and building power in communities disproportionately affected by generations of economic and other forms of injustice—that we and our clients seek. We are guided by a set of values and commitments that include learning for action, centering people and relationships, and service to equity and justice. We hold ourselves accountable through our interactions with our clients, their collaborators, and each other. In addition, it shapes our contracting processes with subcontractors and vendors, operations, and internal professional development.

About the Job

Grassroots Solutions is looking to hire a Project Manager, Evaluation to help manage and ensure outstanding client service for our evaluation and learning practice. In this role you will work in teams with principals and senior strategists to lead and oversee projects from initiation to completion, ensuring projects are on track and on time.

You can be based anywhere in the U.S., but there is an expectation of participating in meetings internally and with clients in other time zones and countries. In your role, you will help clients who share our commitments to building healthy, just, and equitable communities in the following ways:

• Contribute to nurturing internal firm culture that is fun, creative, supportive and allows staff to bring their whole selves to the workplace
• Bring illuminating, sometimes challenging, discussions related to issues of equity and racial and gender justice to discussions with clients and colleagues
• Work with project teams to set expectations and manage ongoing work with clients including developing project-specific timelines, determining roles, tracking progress, managing deliverables, and facilitating internal and external communication
• Contribute to the design of data collection plans, processes and instruments and manage data collection processes in a collaborative and participatory manner
• Proactively engage with project team members to align project goals, provide updates, and address potential challenges and minimize impacts of timelines and deliverables
• Manage the application and use of relevant tools, including project management, data collection, analytics, visualization, reporting, CRM, and others as needed
• Support the product development process, including working closely with the client and internal team to assess type of deliverable, manage the writing and editing process, and work with outside vendors as needed to develop products and reports
• Take an active role in internal and external meetings by creating agendas, facilitating conversations, contributing insights, providing updates, and actively participating in discussions to drive project success
• Communicate effectively and proactively with internal and external teams, providing timely updates on project progress and upcoming tasks

What You’ll Bring

• Commitment to equity and racial and gender justice, including competency to engage in courageous conversations with colleagues and clients
• Enthusiasm about the role of learning and evaluation to inform engagement strategy and help advance racial, gender, economic and climate justice
• Possesses the confidence and strategic mindset to advocate for project needs and provide constructive feedback and direction to members of a project team
• Adaptable, flexible, and nimble when it comes to balancing multiple projects and a fast-paced, frequently changing work portfolio
• Demonstrable experience in planning and overseeing complex projects under tight deadlines using workflow tools that create efficiency and transparency
• Excellent communications skills, including strong facilitation, editing, written, listening, and oral
• Ability to translate project strategy to effective implementation
• Willingness to co-learn with clients and coworkers
• Sense of humor and appetite for innovation and creativity
• Proven ability to handle sensitive information with discretion
• Experience in advocacy, policy and policymaking, civic engagement, organizing and/or evaluation a plus

Additional Information

Grassroots Solutions is a values-driven firm that is committed to doing work we love. We encourage people of all backgrounds and persuasions to apply. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of the company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, physical disability, pregnancy, military or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by state or federal law.

We understand that people with different identities and relationships to power may be less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification as described in the job description. Our firm is committed to building a team with a multitude of identities and lived experiences and we know that not everyone’s work history matches every bullet in the job description. If you feel ready for this role, please apply.

Grassroots Solutions is a fully remote company offering health, dental, short-term, long-term, and life insurance for its employees. We also offer a 401(k) plan with an employer contribution, flexible paid time off, profit sharing, funds for professional development, funds to outfit a home office, and a cell phone stipend.

How to Apply: Send resume and cover letter to jobs@grassrootssolutions.com with Project Manager – Evaluation in the subject line. We will be accepting applications through November 8, 2024.