Program Manager, Scaling & Policy

Program Manager, Scaling & Policy🔍School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States📁Administration📅Apr 19, 2023 Post Date📅98743 Requisition #Note: The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned. Job Code: 4122Job Grade: JJOB PURPOSE:The world’s biggest social problems are complex, multi-faceted, and pervasive. No academic center, company, or organization can solve systemic issues – such as economic inequality, inequitable access to health care and education, and racial discrimination – alone. We need leaders with different skills and experiences to come together to generate fresh insights, evidence, and action to make progress.Stanford Impact Labs – a major new initiative at Stanford University – invests in mission-driven teams of researchers and practitioners from government, business, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropy. These teams – or impact labs – work together on social problems they choose and where practical progress is possible. With our support, they rapidly develop, test, and scale new solutions to social problems that affect millions of people worldwide. Learn more at our work and impact at https://impact.stanford.edu/.WHAT YOU’LL DOStanford Impact Labs is seeking a Scaling & Policy Manager to develop and execute on strategies that help teams of research and community partners move from research insight to impact by scaling effective, evidence-based solutions. Reporting to the Director of Innovation and Partnerships, this role will join Stanford Impact Labs at a unique time of dramatic growth in the organization, and support the organization’s work to refine the role that research plays in solving social problems and build a culture of public impact at Stanford and beyond. In this role, you will:

Develop a scaling theory of change and proposed service offering that SIL should deploy to its most promising investments to help them have impact at scale. You will then provide those services to a subset of SIL labs and iterate on our scaling theory of change and service offering over time based on hands-on work with grantees and their partners.

Assess Stanford Impact Labs’ portfolio of investments to determine their stage on the path from science to impact, and determine opportunities and pathways to scale for the insights and solutions that have emerged from those investments.

Conduct a landscape analysis of evidence and best practice to learn about the features of effective interventions from research that were able to scale to different contexts, and what other organizations are doing to scale tools, policies, and programs.

Work with SIL grantees to develop and implement scaling strategies, based on evidence and best practices from the landscape analysis.

Support SIL’s broader agenda by building a framework that can help research teams learn from each other and break out of the research cycle to build, prototype, and ultimately scale innovations that work.

WHO YOU ARE

You build meaningful and reciprocal partnerships. You have demonstrated your interpersonal skill by building relationships within and outside of your organization to achieve results. You have demonstrated your written and oral communication skills. You believe in collaboration and including a diversity of views, experiences, and perspectives.You’re concrete, practical, focused, and actions-oriented. You have an understanding of frameworks, but you are able to go beyond those frameworks in order to get precise about how those translate into meaningful action. You solve problems. You have an understanding of the obstacles to scaling and a theory for how to overcome and navigate them in different contexts and settings. You’re able to drive your projects to completion. You’ve demonstrated creativity, critical analysis, initiative, strong judgment and decision-making skills. You’re committed to impact. You have an understanding of the pathways from research to impact and know what roadblocks teams face, because you have faced those roadblocks before, and overcome them to achieve results. You are evidence-driven. You understand the benefits of quantitative and qualitative insights and know how to use both inputs to make decisions. You know the benefits and drawbacks of different research practices and how to read between the lines. You evaluate your success and failures, and iterate based on what you’ve learned. You are meticulous and organized. You have program management experience and are detail-oriented. You have demonstrated managing multiple priorities and deadlines in dynamic environments.You thrive in a dynamic, open, and collaborative work environment. You are at home in a start-up environment, able to stay focused and nimble in the face of rapid change. You are committed to racial and social justice. You care about social inequities and systems of oppression. You have a demonstrated track record of working effectively across lines of difference. You are committed to centering equity and inclusion in programs and practices.

YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING

You’ve built and scaled something in the government / public policy space You’ve played a role in taking an idea from an n=1 to, for example, n=100 You’ve been in a movement-building role You’ve been in an innovation office focused on take-up You’ve helped build and scale an organization or multiple program(s) You’ve done work for organizations that scale evidence-based solutions similar to Evidence Action, Spring Impact, J-PAL, Innovations for Poverty Action, Population Services International, Results for Development (R4D), Behavioural Insights Team, ideas42, and the like.

Stanford Impact Labs is an equal opportunity organization addressing some of the world’s most challenging social problems. To that end, we encourage people with lived experience of those social problems to apply for open positions. Candidates will only meet some requirements. We encourage applications from people who are a good fit—through work experience, volunteering, and other personal experiences—who will grow and thrive in this position. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:Education & Experience:Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant experience, or combination of education and relevant experience.Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Demonstrated ability to establish priorities, manage shifting priorities, and handle numerous time-sensitive projects with multiple deadlines.Ability to accomplish goals through formal and informal channels, with diplomacy and tactfulness.Demonstrated creativity, curiosity, problem-solving, critical analysis, initiative, judgment, and decision-making skills.Demonstrated solid planning and organizational skills.Demonstrated experience working independently and as part of a team.Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.Relevant subject matter knowledge about scaling practices.

HOW TO APPLY
We will review applications on a rolling basis and encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible. We plan to stop accepting applications on May 30th, 2023. Please submit the following via the Stanford Career Portal or the Stanford Impact Labs careers page:Please apply through the Stanford Career Portal with the following materials:

Your resume In lieu of a cover letter, please submit your answers to each of the following three questions (a few sentences per question):
What does scaling mean to you?What do you believe Stanford Impact Labs grantees are scaling? Describe your experience with taking something to scale.

The hiring process will involve a work trial to give us a sense of person-job fit. The work trial will involve a written task and a simulated work meeting. A subset of finalists will be invited for 1-2 additional interviews. We will check references for final candidates only.The expected pay range for this position is $95,000 - $134,000 per annum. Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US to be considered for this position.This is a 100% FTE, 1 year fixed-term exempt position with the possibility of renewal. This position will be based on the Stanford campus and is a hybrid position, with 2-3 days of in-person work and 2-3 days of remote work per week. Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of their job. Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Job Code: 4122
• Employee Status: Fixed-Term
• Grade: J
• Requisition ID: 98743
• Work Arrangement : Hybrid Eligible

Salary : $95,000 - $134,000