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About the Role

The Strategic Learning & Impact (SL&I) team advances The Rockefeller Foundation's mission by ensuring its work has meaningful, measurable, and credible impact. This role leads the Foundation's enterprise-wide approach to impact, measurement, and evaluation (M&E), shaping how the Foundation develops, measures, and adapts its work to maximize impact and advance its mission. The role provides strategic counsel to executive leadership, oversees a team, and establishes best-in-class learning and measurement practices.

Responsibilities

Establish and lead the Foundation's vision, strategy, and operating model for strategic learning, impact measurement, and evaluation.
Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on matters related to impact, including efficiency, effectiveness, value, and impact of major investments.
Collaborate closely with Business Insights, Strategic Communications, and Organizational Development and Learning teams.
Lead the development of enterprise-level reporting on impact, outcomes, and evaluation.
Build systems, processes, tools, and forums that enable knowledge sharing, reflection, and evidence-based adaptation.
Guide program teams in designing theories of change, impact pathways, surfacing impact-related risks, and ensuring the integrity of charitability claims.
Enable priority program and non-program teams to generate evidence about what is and isn’t working.
Direct the design, procurement, and management of external evaluation and learning partnerships.
Promote the effective use of data and insights to improve program design and execution.
Generate and quality-assure evidence, data, and impact stories.
Strengthen the Foundation's reputation as a data-driven organization and a leader in strategic learning, evaluation, and impact measurement.
Ensure that the Foundation’s impact claims are credible, defensible, and can withstand external scrutiny.
Contribute thought leadership through publications, convenings, presentations, and strategic partnerships.
Represent the Foundation with peer institutions, funders, evaluators, researchers, and other strategic partners.
Lead and develop a high-performing Strategic Learning & Impact team, fostering inclusion, collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
Provide strategic direction, coaching, and mentorship to directors and senior staff.
Establish team goals, priorities, and performance expectations aligned with Foundation objectives.
Steward departmental resources and external investments to achieve strategic and operational objectives.

Requirements

Generally expected to have 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in strategy, learning, evaluation, impact measurement, program design, or related disciplines.
Extensive experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and teams within global or multinational environments.
Deep technical knowledge of impact measurement practices and methods – both established best practices and emerging approaches in the field.
Experience advising senior executives and organizational leaders on strategic and operational decisions.
Demonstrated experience designing and overseeing measurement, evaluation, and learning frameworks that drive organizational impact.
Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Experience working across philanthropic, public, and private sectors is strongly preferred.
Experience working with global partners across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America is preferred.
Extensive relevant networks and contacts to leverage in support of the Foundation’s work.

Skills

Action Oriented
Collaborates
Manages Complexity
Nimble Learning
Strategic Mindset
Develops Talent

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

15+ years of progressive leadership experience

Education Level

Bachelor's required
Advanced degree in public policy, international development, public health, social sciences, management, evaluation, or related field strongly preferred

Salary/Compensations

$257,800 - $314,000

Benefits

Health insurance programs
Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment
Generous 401K
Parental leave
Various forms of paid time off

About the Company

The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation that enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish.
We make big bets to promote the well-being of humanity in food, health, energy, and finance, including through our public charity, RF Catalytic Capital (RFCC).
We are dedicated to being Transparent, Optimistic, Accountable, Collaborative, Trusted, and Equitable.
We expect all employees at the Foundation to contribute by developing their unique perspectives and talent, challenging conventional wisdom through evidence and reason, and amplifying marginalized voices.

Equal Opportunity

The Rockefeller Foundation is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and compliance with all federal, state, and local laws concerning employment discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act.
To this end, the Foundation ensures equal opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, lawful alien status, physical, mental, and medical disability, veteran status, liability for service in the United States Armed Forces, or any other protected status.
The Rockefeller Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.