Senior Research Manager - Behavioral Health

The Opportunity

OMNI Institute seeks experienced evaluators, who are adept at collaborating with diverse clients and teams, skilled at managing and collaborating with clients and project teams, and aligned with our core values, for a Senior Research Manager opening in our behavioral health practice. We strongly encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply for this position (more is available at https://www.omni.org/edi).

Our Senior Research Managers design and execute evaluation projects, develop client relationships, manage the work of project teams, and supervise staff. Our behavioral health team works closely with several state and local-level government agencies to evaluate state prevention, treatment, and recovery programs through data collection, training and capability development, and program reporting for federal SAMHSA funding streams such as the Substance Abuse Block Grant prevention set-aside, Partnership for Success, and State Opioid Response grants. Our teams lead clients through projects that include evaluation design and implementation to meet federal reporting requirements and address state-specific goals; capacity building for sub-recipient organizations; facilitation of needs assessment and strategy selection processes; and facilitation of State Epidemiology and Outcomes workgroups.

Candidates with experience in implementation and evaluation of federally funded prevention programs, public health and applied epidemiological training, and experience working in consulting environments are highly encouraged to apply.

Key Qualifications

• The experience necessary to lead teams through complex, multi-disciplinary evaluation projects; typically, with extensive experience or training in quantitative or qualitative research methods in an academic or an applied social science context – often a Ph.D. with significant applied experience or a master’s degree with several additional years of experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work within an evaluation consulting environment and to meet our foundational Core3 requirements:
  • Commitment to timeliness and meeting deadlines in your work.
  • Comfort communicating and working within fluid and collaborative project teams.
  • A strong sense of personal ownership, self-direction, and accountability for your work.
• Alignment with our Core Values:
  • Connection: to hear, understand, and support your colleagues and your clients.
  • Agility: in how you think about and approach new challenges and novel solutions.
  • Inquiry: to look at information from different perspectives and learn from other approaches.
  • Accountability: to meet deadlines, receive & give candid and respectful feedback, and deliver your best work.
• Experience in centering equity (especially health equity), diversity, and inclusion and applying equitable evaluation approaches in your work.
• A passion for and experience in helping people, communities, and organizations through public health program evaluation.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish is preferred.

What this role looks like

Your work at OMNI will be primarily organized into multiple consulting project teams that deliver the work specified in a scope of work for a client contract. Examples include:

• Lead teams through the development and delivery of complex projects, such as
  • Evaluation and capacity-building projects focused on substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery funded through various SAMHSA grant programs.
  • Needs assessment and planning projects focused on behavioral health or community health.
  • Leadership of epi workgroups, synthesis of secondary indicator data, and integration of epi data into evaluation designs.
• Guide and support other staff through tasks, such as:
  • Provisioning of evaluation-related technical assistance, including related to logic modeling, needs assessment, strategic planning, and process data collection.
  • Developing data management protocols (or design more complex coding /data integration systems).
  • Prevention data collection systems, including system architecture, data elements, and impacts of system changes on client and vested partner data collection.
• Serve as project leader and/or oversight, including:
  • Design and delivery of the methodological components of a complex study (e.g., integrating multiple, mixed-methods data sources such as secondary data, interviews, and surveying to address research questions; conducting interviews with high-profile partners).
  • Develop scopes of work that include budgets, staffing configurations, and work plans.
  • Develop external deliverables that integrate multiple methods.
  • Manage project teams and develop and monitor complex work plans/timelines/budgets.
  • Independently manage and grow client relationships to maintain and expand business opportunities.
• Supervise and mentor staff, providing ongoing feedback and guidance to support individual growth and performance.
• Identify key learnings and improvements from projects and contribute new and improved approaches to our knowledge management and best practice teams.

Diversity Statement

We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply, particularly people of color, those who identify as LGBTQ+, first generation immigrants, those who were first in their families to attend college, and people who are from marginalized income backgrounds. https://www.omni.org/edi

As a proud equal opportunity workplace, we believe that a diverse team is fundamental to living our core values. The inclusion of diverse perspectives provides new ways of asking questions (Inquiry), fresh approaches to tackling challenges (Agility), inspiration to produce better work (Excellence), and contribute to a greater shared understanding of our community and sense of connection among our staff and to our clients (Connection).

Salary & Benefits

This is a full-time position with a starting annual salary of $87,731 plus benefits, which include:

• 100% employer paid health premiums (employee coverage)
• Vision, dental, supplemental insurance
• 401k with company match and immediate vesting
• Flexible working schedules
• PTO that begins with 3 weeks of PTO, 11 floating holidays, and an annual office closure from Dec 24-Jan 1.
• Monthly Tech stipend and wellness benefits

Please note that we do not negotiate salary and benefits as research indicates that negotiations disproportionately impact applicants identifying as people of color, women, or with other marginalized identities.

Location

This is a remote position within the continental US states with slight preference for candidates located in the southeastern US states.

OMNI Institute’s headquarters are in Denver, CO, where we have an office for staff to work from. Employees who work from home/remotely must have a suitable home office environment. We try to limit work travel, but employees can expect some travel for client meetings, conferences, or company meetings (expected up to 10% of the time).

About OMNI

OMNI Institute is a 501c3 nonprofit consultancy that works with nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, government agencies, and social ventures to accelerate positive social change toward a more equitable society. We provide research, evaluation, and capacity-building services through a 100% fee-for-service project-based consulting model. We have 50+ staff located in more than a dozen US states. Our primary areas of focus include Community Health, Behavioral Health, Adult & Juvenile Justice, Economic Security, and Children & Families.