Research Manager

OMNI Institute is looking for experienced evaluators who excel in collaboration and management across diverse clients and teams, and who share our core values, for the position of Research Manager within our behavioral health practice. We encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply for this opportunity (more is available at https://www.omni.org/edi).

Our Research Managers play a pivotal role in executing evaluation projects, nurturing client relationships, overseeing project teams, and supervising staff. Our dedicated behavioral health team collaborates closely with various state and local government agencies, foundations, and nonprofit organizations to assess state prevention, treatment, and recovery programs. This is achieved through comprehensive data collection, training, capability development, program reporting, and project management.

Our teams guide clients through a range of projects, which include:

• Designing and implementing evaluations to fulfill federal reporting requirements and align with state-specific objectives.
• Building capacity for sub-recipient organizations.
• Facilitating needs assessments and strategy selection processes.
• Employing mixed-method analytic approaches to produce actionable and easily digestible deliverables.

Requirements

Key Qualifications

• The experience necessary to manage teams through multi-disciplinary evaluation projects; typically, with experience or training in quantitative or qualitative research methods in an academic or an applied social science context – often a Ph.D. with some applied experience or a master’s degree with several additional years of applied 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. Experience working on projects at the intersection of behavioral health and the justice system is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in applied consulting environments.
• Experience using R programming language to manage, analyze, visualize, or report on data.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish.
• Experience in implementation and evaluation of federally funded prevention programs, public health and applied epidemiological training,

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:

• Manage 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, HRSA, CDC or other grant programs.
  • Needs assessment and planning projects focused on behavioral health or community health.
  • Leadership of epidemiological workgroups, synthesis of secondary indicator data, and integration of epidemiological data into evaluation designs.
• Guide and support other staff through tasks, such as:
  • Evaluation-related technical assistance, including related to logic modeling, needs assessment, strategic planning, and process data collection.
  • Building capacity among client and subrecipients to engage in evaluation, data collection, and reporting activities through training and development of resources.
  • Developing data management protocols (or design more complex coding /data integration systems).
  • Utilizing prevention data collection systems, including understanding data elements and impacts of system changes on client and vested partner data collection.
• Serve as project manager, including:
  • 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 work plans/timelines/budgets.
  • 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 our best work (Accountability), 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 $75,359 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 and the first Friday of each quarter.
• Headspace EAP with access to coaching, therapy, and crisis intervention support for employees and their families.
• Monthly Tech stipend.

Please note that we do not negotiate salary and benefits as research indicates that negotiations disproportionately negatively 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 a slight preference for candidates located in Virginia or other 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 more than 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.