Housing Policy and Capital Programs Evaluator

King County, Washington; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

County-issued laptop

Supportive team environment

Job summary

King County's Department of Community and Human Services seeks a mid-level evaluator to analyze housing affordability, stability, and policy impacts. You will work with housing staff and regional partners to measure outcomes, report findings, and inform decision-making within a hybrid PME team in Seattle.

Successful candidates will leverage data to support anti-racist practices and equitable policy development, preparing dashboards, briefs, and data resources for internal and external audiences.

Qualifications

• Commitment to equity and social justice in all analytic work.
• 3+ years of experience in social, health, or human services policy analysis.
• Ability to present findings clearly to diverse audiences.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external partners.
• Experience cleaning, validating, and analyzing data with statistical tools.

Responsibilities

• Support housing data analysis, policy analysis, and evaluation work.
• Develop data resources, reports, and routine analyses for housing.
• Create dashboards and visualizations to communicate findings.
• Lead data-driven conversations with program staff and partners.
• Contribute to reports for elected officials and leadership.
• Design analyses across housing policy areas and coordinate with teams.

Skills

Equity & justice

Data analysis

Communication skills

Collaborative work

Statistical software

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Tableau

R

SQL

Stata

SPSS

SAS

Python

Job description

Are you a skilled evaluator with a commitment to social justice and anti-racist data and measurement? Do you enjoy working collaboratively with partners to practice data-informed decision making? Are you interested in putting your skills to work to make a difference in your community? If so, King County's Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) is looking for you!

King County's Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) provides equitable opportunities for people to be healthy, happy, and connected to community.

The Performance Measurement and Evaluation (PME) unit is recruiting for a mid-level evaluator position. This evaluator position is centrally located within the PME unit of the DCHS Director's Office. PME is composed of a team of approximately 50 dedicated program evaluators and data analysts who work with program staff, providers, and regional partners to develop frameworks for understanding the outcomes and equity impacts of DCHS programs and policy work. This work includes determining appropriate performance measures, managing data collection, supporting continuous quality improvement, and conducting in-depth analyses to inform decision-making and improve service delivery. PME disseminates research and evaluation findings and promotes organizational learning through published reports and online dashboards.
This position will support DCHS’ Housing and Community Development Division’s (HCD) affordable housing data analysis, policy analysis, and evaluation work. It will work primarily with HCD’s Policy, Planning and Special Projects and Capital Programs teams. This position will be a part of a two-person team focused on housing policy and capital, which is part of a larger team focused on housing more broadly. A key focus of this position is to support King County's ongoing efforts to build a culture of data-informed decision-making and evaluation within the framework of King County's efforts to create greater access to affordable housing and ensure housing stability for our residents.
This evaluator position will work with housing program staff, housing planners and policy analysts, and regional housing partners to use data to measure, continuously improve, and report about housing affordability and stability in King County. This includes developing regional housing affordability measures, monitoring progress towards Comprehensive Plan implementation, presenting analyses on affordable housing development, measuring displacement, researching the impacts of evictions in King County, developing data resources, creating routine and custom reports and analyses, and facilitating data-focused conversations.
This position supports a wide range of topics related to housing, requiring a breadth of knowledge of the housing space and an interest in learning about a range of different housing policy areas. Successful candidates must be willing to move between these different policy areas, make connections across them, develop a deep understanding of the King County local policy context, and determine research questions that will support program and policy decision-making.

This selection process will fill our current vacancy but may also be used to create a pool of qualified candidates should additional Evaluator positions open up within the next six (6) months.

To be considered minimally qualified applicant must demonstrate a background that provides the knowledge, skills and ability to:

• Provide support to partners in collecting, reporting, analyzing, and making meaning of data.
• Actively contribute to the furthering of anti-racist work and equity and social justice initiatives within and across divisions and units.
• Manage and analyze both 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 to improve reporting and analysis processes.
• Design, manage, and conduct analyses and evaluation projects in collaboration with community-based organizations, policy staff, program managers, and/or external evaluators.
• Lead data-driven conversations based on analyses and reports with King County division staff and/or regional housing partners.
• Develop reports, dashboards, presentations, and other visual tools to support the use of data in decision making and storytelling.
• Contribute to reports and briefings for elected officials, department leadership, and community members.
• Design and produce visually engaging data products to communicate to external partners and the general public.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE:

• Demonstrated knowledge of equity and social justice principles and practices and ability to apply this knowledge to all areas of the work, including methods, analysis, results interpretation, and dissemination.
• At least three (3) years of experience working with social, health, or human services policy and programs in conducting research and data analysis, including quantitative and/or qualitative approaches. Relevant experience gained through academic studies or school-related experience may be considered toward meeting this requirement.
• Ability to work across diverse perspectives to present analyses, find common themes, and identify relevant and actionable findings from performance measurement and evaluation.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including making formal presentations to a range of audiences, and describing evaluation concepts to partners who have varying degrees of experience in data and evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to form and maintain meaningful relationships with internal and external collaboration 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.
• Experience with or interest in learning data visualization tools, such as Tableau or R.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

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

ADDITIONAL POSITION INFORMATION

• This position has been designated Non-Mission Critical. Unless otherwise directed by the County Executive, department director or agency head, all employees, regardless of designation, are expected to report to work or request leave during an emergency or inclement weather. For more detailed information, please visit HR Policy County Operations During Emergency Situations and the King County Guidelines for Workforce Management in an Emergency.
• The PME unit works in a hybrid model, with days in the office as well as telecommuting. The ratio of remote to onsite work will be dependent on business needs and is subject to change. The onsite location is Chinook, 401 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104. Employees must reside in Washington state and within a reasonable distance to their King County worksite to respond to workplace reporting requirements.
• King County has a robust collection of tools and resources to support working remotely. The individual selected for this opportunity will join an innovative and progressive team that is redefining how we work as we transition to the department's hybrid environment. Employees will be provided with a County-issued laptop and must maintain a home workspace with an internet connection where they can reliably perform work and remain available and responsive during scheduled work hours.

• This position is exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime. Typical hours are Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm.
• This position is represented by PROTEC17 (C23).
• Classification: Evaluator

WHO MAY APPLY

This position is open to all qualified candidates that meet the minimum qualifications.

King County's Vision, Mission, and ACTIVATE Values unite us. King County serves residents with a relentless sense of urgency, delivering on commitments with transparency and accountability. We are action-oriented, creative problem solvers who collaborate across roles, engage directly with communities, and challenge the status quo to achieve meaningful impact. As a unified team, we uphold high ethical and stewardship standards, embrace change, stay curious, and continuously improve. Across all interactions, we listen first, act quickly, and stay aligned as a team to earn and sustain public trust. Learn more about our Vision, Mission, and ACTIVATE Values here and visit our Why work at King County page here.

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