7 research and development jobs found

The Early Learning Policy Director helps shape and advance Children’s Alliance’s early learning public policy and advocacy strategy. In this mid-level role, the Early Learning Policy Director builds high-impact relationships with coalition partners and government stakeholders; advances Children’s Alliance advocacy priorities: and represents Children’s Alliance publicly as a trusted thought leader.     A core responsibility of this role is convening and coordinating the Early Learning Action Alliance, a statewide early learning advocacy coalition. The Early Learning Policy Director brings partners together around shared goals, facilitates collaborative strategy development, and ensures that diverse voices, especially those most impacted by policy decisions, are meaningfully included. This work requires strong antiracist values, skilled facilitation, and the ability to recognize and navigate power dynamics within coalitions and across systems.    Children’s...

Analyst, Research San Francisco, CA The Research team at the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) seeks a highly motivated Analyst with a desire to utilize their abilities to create positive social impact by improving the performance of charitable funders and, through them, the nonprofit sector as a whole. We are seeking candidates who express a defined interest in contributing to research by helping to design methodologically sound studies and conducting rigorous quantitative and qualitative analyses. This is an opportunity to contribute to CEP’s organizational mission of creating insight so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness. CEP’s Research team provides evidence-based reports on foundation effectiveness and the state of philanthropic practice across a wide range of topics, for example: A Sector in Crisis: How U.S. Nonprofits and Foundations Are Responding to Threats Mounting Pressure: U.S. Foundations and...