Planning Evaluator

DecisionPoint | Cortek; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint in Atlanta, GA seeks a Planning Evaluator to provide advanced planning, coordination, and implementation of the agency's standard response evaluation approach. The role entails analytic support for public health programs and preparedness exercises to inform decisions and strengthen outcomes.

The position is 100% in person in Atlanta, with occasional telework allowed if approved by technical monitor and COR.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of emergency management/evaluation experience, 2 years in public health EM may substitute.
• 5+ years in program evaluation or public health analytics with statistical software and data visualization.
• Strong knowledge of evaluation methods, data interpretation, and translating data into actionable recommendations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities

• Support Evaluation Activities across preparedness and response, analyzing data and developing reports, visualizations, and decision-support products.
• Design evaluation to meet agency responses and exercises requirements.
• Develop evaluation plans and coordinate implementation.
• Track progress against objectives and outcomes.
• Identify capability gaps and resource needs for improvement.
• Ensure evaluation activities align with federal standards and best practices.
• Produce evaluation plans, reports, dashboards, and executive briefings.
• Communicate findings to leadership and stakeholders.
• Maintain documentation of methodologies and data sources.

Skills

Emergency management experience

Program evaluation

Data analysis

Communication of findings

Microsoft Office Suite

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

R

Python

MAXQDA

NVivo

Data visualization tools

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint is seeking a Planning Evaluator to join our team in Atlanta, GA, to provide advanced planning, coordination, and implementation of the agency's standard response evaluation approach, including analytic support for public health programs and preparedness exercises. The contractor will support evaluation aspects of agency-wide responses and functional exercises to inform decision-making, improve response capabilities, and strengthen public health outcomes.

This is a 100% in person position. Telework may be allowed, occasionally, if approved by technical monitor and COR.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Support Evaluation Activities across preparedness and response activities including evaluation of emergency responses and exercises, advanced qualitative and quantitative data analysis, development of reports, visualizations, and decision-support products, technical consultation on mixed-methods tools.
• Design evaluation to meet agency responses and exercises requirements.
• Develop evaluation plans and coordinate its implementation.
• Track and measure progress against established objectives and outcomes.
• Identify capability gaps, resource needs, and areas for improvement.
• Ensure evaluation activities align with federal standards and best practices.
• Design and execute data requests, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of analytic products.
• Collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses of response or exercise data.
• Apply statistical learning methods to identify trends, gaps, and outcomes.
• Monitor and assess data quality, integrity, and completeness.
• Collaborate with IT and informatics teams to improve data collection, processing, and other systems.
• Develop clear, concise, and actionable evaluation products for technical and non-technical audiences
• Produce evaluation plans, evaluation reports, dashboards and data visualizations, executive summaries and briefings, and one-pagers.
• Track, develop, and disseminate evaluation findings and recommendations.
• Communicate findings to leadership, stakeholders, and partner organizations.
• Maintain documentation of evaluation methodologies, data sources, and analytic processes.
• Incorporate lessons learned into future evaluations and response processes.
• Stay current with advancements in data science, machine learning, and public health analytics.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• A minium of 7 years' experience in emergency management / emergency management evaluation and 2 years specifically in public health emergency management may substitute).
• Minimum of 5 plus years of experience in program evaluation or public health analytics, statistical software (e.g. R-Python, MAXQDA, NviVo or similar), data visualization tools, and qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge of evaluation methods and practices, data analysis and interpretation, translating data into actionable recommendations, customizing communication products for a variety of audiences, including executive leadership, and data management and data governance principles.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Planner).
• Possess strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to support high-tempo emergency response environments.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent data requests and deadlines.
• Flexibility to support surge activities during public health emergencies.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

EEO and Aff…”

Pay Transparency Policy

In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an invest