Housing Policy and Capital Programs Evaluator (Evaluator)

King County•Chinook Building 401 5th Avenue Seattle, WA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

King County’s Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS), Performance Measurement and Evaluation (PME) unit, is hiring a mid-level Evaluator to support the Housing and Community Development Division’s affordable housing data analysis, policy analysis, and evaluation work. The position works primarily with the Policy, Planning and Special Projects and Capital Programs teams as part of a small housing policy and capital team. PME works with program staff, providers, and regional partners to develop outcome and equity frameworks, determine performance measures, manage data collection, support continuous quality improvement, conduct analyses, and share findings through reports and dashboards. The Evaluator will work with housing program staff, planners, policy analysts, and regional partners to measure and improve housing affordability and stability in King County. Topics include developing regional affordability measures, monitoring Comprehensive Plan implementation, analyzing affordable housing development, measuring displacement, researching eviction impacts, creating data resources and reports, and facilitating data-focused discussions. The work spans varied housing policy areas and requires learning the local policy context and developing research questions that support program and policy decisions. The PME unit operates in a hybrid model, with both office and telecommuting days. The onsite location is Chinook, 401 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104. Employees must reside in Washington state and within reasonable distance of their King County worksite. The employee will be provided a County-issued laptop and must maintain a home workspace with reliable internet access. Typical hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is an exempt position and is not eligible for overtime. The position is represented by PROTEC17 (C23) and is designated Non-Mission Critical.

Requirements

At least three years of experience working with social, health, or human services policy and programs in research and data analysis using quantitative and/or qualitative approaches; relevant academic or school-related experience may count.
Knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices, and ability to apply them to methods, analysis, interpretation of results, and dissemination.
Ability to work across diverse perspectives, present analyses, identify common themes, and develop relevant, actionable findings from performance measurement and evaluation.
Strong oral and written communication skills, including formal presentations to varied audiences and explaining evaluation concepts to partners with different levels of data and evaluation experience.
Ability to form and maintain meaningful relationships with internal and external partners.
Ability to clean, validate, and analyze data using at least one statistical software or programming application, such as R, SQL, Stata, SPSS, SAS, or Python.
Must reside in Washington state and within reasonable distance of the King County worksite.
Must maintain a home workspace with reliable internet and be available and responsive during scheduled work hours.

Nice To Haves

Experience in housing, including land use planning, housing stability and rental assistance programming, evictions, and affordable housing development.
Experience with population-level data from Census products such as ACS, CHAS, and PUMS.
Experience analyzing client-level data, or willingness to learn, including managing and linking data from multiple internal and external sources.
Experience supporting technical staff in developing and maintaining data infrastructure, such as ETL pipelines and data collection processes.
Experience presenting data and complex technical topics to elected officials.
Experience developing and administering surveys and facilitating focus groups.
Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau or R, or interest in learning them.

Responsibilities

Support partners in collecting, reporting, analyzing, and interpreting data.
Contribute to anti-racist work and equity and social justice initiatives across divisions and units.
Manage and analyze quantitative and qualitative data using appropriate statistical methods and data-cleaning and validation tools.
Analyze data related to affordable housing development, land use policy, housing stability, and eviction prevention.
Collaborate with technical staff to develop data infrastructure that improves reporting and analysis processes.
Design, manage, and conduct analyses and evaluation projects with community-based organizations, policy staff, program managers, and/or external evaluators.
Lead data-driven discussions based on analyses and reports with King County division staff and regional housing partners.
Develop reports, dashboards, presentations, and other visual tools to support data-informed decision-making and storytelling.
Contribute to reports and briefings for elected officials, department leadership, and community members.
Design and produce visually engaging data products for external partners and the general public.
Perform other related duties as assigned.