Vice President of Data, Impact, and Learning

Responsibilities

• Impact and Learning Vision: Create and drive a TSO-wide data, impact, and learning vision to drive performance and ensure strategic decisions integrate financial, purpose, and impact goals.
• Data Framework and Metrics: Build from existing TSO practices and approaches to lead the development of a unified, enterprise-wide data and measurement strategy that defines key metrics, integrates systems and data sets, ensures quality assurance and stakeholder engagement, and delivers actionable insights to drive a learning culture.
• MEL and Grants Management Integration: As the function evolves, further advance the integration of MEL and grants management, advancing systems that support continuous learning and effective grantmaking. Partner with staff and stakeholders to ensure grant data and evaluation results are used to inform strategy, iterate, and enhance impact.
• Internal Alignment and Collaboration: Partner with key internal stakeholders and lead cross-functional working groups to align, coordinate, and integrate TSO-wide impact and evaluation goals, systems reporting, and learning.
• Systems, Tools, and Methodologies: Partner with the IT Director and other key stakeholders to assess the current IT and data systems and capacities for impact and learning across TSO and develop and implement an integrated technology and data system for enhanced data collection and analysis.
• AI Integration for Learning and Insight: Assess and guide the thoughtful adoption of AI solutions to strengthen the overall impact and learning function. Leverage AI tools and techniques to enhance data analysis, streamline evaluation processes, and generate predictive and real-time insights that inform strategy, grantmaking, and organizational learning.
• Reporting: Create aligned reporting and develop TSO’s first-ever enterprise-wide report, analyzing and interpreting internal results measurements, social and sustainability impacts, and other mission-driven results across the whole of the enterprise.
• Communications: Partner with the communications team to share insights and lessons learned with staff, stakeholders, and external audiences. Advance processes and methods that translate insights from TSO’s measurement, evaluation, and learning work for broader audiences to magnify influence.
• Community Engagement and Field-Building: Support the development of approaches, data, and processes that are informed by the needs and insights of community partners; share best practices, lessons learned, and integrate community voice and perspective into the way TSO carries out ME&L functions.
• Special Projects: Lead and contribute to ad hoc projects of strategic importance.

Skillset

• Senior leader. Demonstrated record of senior leadership success in driving organization-wide learning systems and embedding data-informed decision-making into culture and practice. Experience may be drawn from philanthropy, the private sector, consulting, or other social-impact environments.
• Data champion. A strong track record as a data-driven strategist and champion, with experience in leading-edge technologies, data systems, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and a passion for empowering others to use data to drive impact.
• Change management guide. Experienced in guiding organizations and teams through transitions while fostering buy-in for new systems, strategies, and ways of working.
• Functional integrator. Experience building cross-departmental partnerships and aligning learning and evaluation with grantmaking, operations, strategy, and communications to strengthen organizational performance.
• People leader. A reputation as a compelling and inspirational people leader with exceptional communication, partnership-building, and relationship management skills.
• Technology innovator. A passion for technology, innovation, and process improvement, and a track record of building enterprise-wide knowledge systems, grants management systems, data platforms, and visualization tools that drive organizational learning, strategic decision-making, and operational effectiveness.
• AI implementor. Skilled in leveraging AI as an evolving tool to enhance practices and work products, with the ability to design systems and guidelines that ensure appropriate use of AI in data, learning, and impact across the organization.
• Storyteller. Exceptional communicator, strategic synthesizer and storyteller, adept at translating complex data, evaluation results, and learning insights into clear, accessible messages for diverse internal and external audiences.