Manager, Evaluation & Predictive Analytics

DePelchin Children’s Center; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Texans Together is seeking a Manager, Evaluation in Houston to lead evaluation activities for SSCC initiatives, forecast models, and provider strategies. You will guide data-driven decision making and quality improvement across the network, partnering with leadership to translate findings into actionable improvement plans.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and building robust evaluation products to support program outcomes for children and families.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, public administration, social work, or other human services related field.
• Minimum five (5) years’ professional experience designing or managing evaluation projects, including evaluation questions, methodology, data collection, analysis, reporting, and recommendations.
• Supervisory, management, team leadership experience required. Experience supervising evaluators, analysts, researchers, or performance improvement staff preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead evaluation activities related to network effectiveness, including SSCC initiatives, provider strategies, network interventions, service improvement efforts, and pilot projects.
• Develop evaluation plans, research questions, frameworks, data collection and analysis strategies, reporting structures, and evaluation products such as baseline reports, provider assessments, network health assessments, capacity and utilization analyses, dashboards, leadership summaries, and reports.
• Lead the development and validation of forecasting models, early warning indicators, predictive analytics, and risk stratification tools.
• Use administrative, provider, placement, utilization, performance, stakeholder feedback, outcome, evaluation, and operational initiative data to identify trends, risks, gaps, emerging needs, provider performance concerns, disruption risks, service gaps, placement capacity needs, and opportunities for network improvement.
• Oversee evaluation staff by assigning work, setting expectations, reviewing deliverables, monitoring progress, supporting professional development, and ensuring accountability.
• Establish team workflows, project timelines, reporting calendars, review processes, documentation standards, and quality assurance practices.
• Analyze providers’ use of the Texas Provider Gateway, assess compliance with applicable requirements, identify trends and data quality concerns, and develop utilization reports for stakeholders.
• Communicate evaluation findings, operational risks, trends, predictive insights, and recommendations to stakeholders in a clear, concise, and actionable manner.
• Support the development and validation of performance measures, data definitions, calculation methodologies, and reporting tools.
• Ensure evaluation findings inform network development, operational improvement, and continuous quality improvement.

Skills

Data analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Excel

Written communication

Project management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in public health or related field

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

DAX

SQL

Job description

Texans Together is seeking a Manager, Evaluation in Houston to lead evaluation activities for SSCC initiatives, forecast models, and provider strategies. You will guide data-driven decision making and quality improvement across the network, partnering with leadership to translate findings into actionable improvement plans.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and building robust evaluation products to support program outcomes for children and families.