Director, Capacity Building and Investment Impact (Chicago / Hybrid)

Work. Serve. Thrive.
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives. Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission. We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results.
Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
Learn more about Feeding America here.
This position is based out of Feeding America’s Chicago office. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees can be in the office an average of 2-3 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day “work anywhere” program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.
The Opportunity
The Director, Capacity Building & Investment Impact leads the design, implementation and continuous improvement of evaluation approaches that demonstrate the effectiveness and impact of Feeding America's grantmaking and capacity-building services. The role advances enterprise-wide measurement, learning, and evaluation strategies of Feeding America’s grantmaking and capacity-building services that generate meaningful evidence of impact by integrating self-assessment, evaluation and grantmaking data into a more comprehensive and credible understanding of impact.
By translating findings into actionable insights, the Director strengthens organizational learning, strategic decision-making, resource allocation and donor stewardship. Working collaboratively with staff, donors, network members and other stakeholders, the Director ensures impact measurement approaches are rigorous, practical and aligned with organizational and network priorities.
Compensation
Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range: $113,471 - $119,471 Based on Experience
Responsibilities:
Leads the design, implementation and continuous improvement of an organization-wide impact measurement framework for grantmaking and capacity-building services, including clear learning questions, outcomes, indicators, and methods to advance Feeding America and network strategic priorities.
Establishes measurement standards and feedback approaches for grant opportunities in collaboration with subject matter experts, fundraising colleagues, donors and network members.
Serves as Feeding America’s internal subject matter expert and strategic advisor on the evaluation of capacity-building services by establishing consistent evaluation standards, tools and processes that enable teams to measure member experience, learning, behavior change, organizational capacity and longer-term results.
Directs the strategy and coordinated execution of network member self-assessments, including assessment design, validation, analysis, reporting and ongoing refinement.
Designs mixed-method evaluation plans that integrate quantitative and qualitative data and reflect the perspectives and experiences of network members and people facing hunger.
Analyzes and synthesizes findings across grants and capacity-building services to identify patterns, gaps, promising practices and opportunities for continuous improvement.
Translates complex evaluation findings into clear, actionable insights, dashboards, reports and presentations for network members, staff, executive leaders, board audiences and donors.
Guides the responsible use of self-assessment and evaluation data in resource allocation, service prioritization and member support, with attention to fairness, inclusion, transparency and appropriate interpretation.
Provides strategic leadership on establishing an organization-wide grantmaking way of working; including frameworks, standards, tools, and processes that enable consistent, high-quality grants to the network.
Serves as a strategic thought partner on the role of evaluation and impact measurement in capacity-building services and knowledge management frameworks and processes.
Builds evaluation capacity across teams by providing consultation, practical tools and guidance on outcomes, indicators, data collection, analysis and learning use.
Manages evaluation projects and external partners, as needed, ensuring scope, deliverables, budget, timelines, data quality and stakeholder expectations are clearly defined and met.
Required Experience and Qualifications:
8+ years of experience in strategy, organizational learning, impact evaluation or related work in a nonprofit or philanthropic environment.
Ability to process large amounts of complex information and present concise conclusions to inform decision-making.
Demonstrated experience with quantitative and qualitative data collection, synthesis, analysis, and data management systems and technology solutions.