Senior Evaluator (Youth Support Program)

Full Job Description

The Department of Community and Human Services values diverse perspectives and life experiences.

The Department encourages people of all backgrounds to apply, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, immigrants, refugees, women, LGBTQ, people with disabilities, veterans, and those with lived experiences.

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

King County’s Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) is seeking a Senior Evaluator to support the Youth Diversion and Intervention Program within the Children, Youth, and Young Adult Division (CYYAD).

The Senior Evaluator will join a team that includes a Program Manager, Intervention Manager, and Contract Monitor, working in partnership with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Department of Public Defense, and Superior Court.

This role will lead evaluation efforts to strengthen diversion pathways, support referrals to community-based providers, and ensure strategies are effective, equitable, and grounded in racial and social justice principles.

ABOUT THE DIVISIONS

The Children, Youth, and Young Adult Division (CYYAD) works to ensure all young people in King County can thrive.

The division invests in strengthening child care, youth development, and pathways to postsecondary education and employment.

Through initiatives such as Best Starts for Kids (BSK) and the Puget Sound Taxpayer Accountability Account (PSTAA), as well as re-engagement, education, and employment programs for youth ages 16–24, CYYAD supports equitable opportunities for young people to reach their full potential.

The Performance Measurement and Evaluation (PME) Unit provides evaluation expertise, data management, and analytics across DCHS programs.

PME collaborates with staff and community partners to design frameworks, measure outcomes, and drive continuous improvement.

By fostering data-driven decision-making and sharing findings through reports and dashboards, PME strengthens equity and service effectiveness.

WHO MAY APPLY: This position is open to all qualified candidates who meet the minimum qualifications. Interviews for this selection process will take place on or around 3/2/2026.

APPLICATION PROCESSIf you are interested in pursuing this position, please follow the application instructions carefully.

If you need this announcement in an alternate language or format, would like to request accommodation or assistance in the application or assessment process or if you have questions please contact the recruiter listed on this job announcement.The following items are required to be considered for this vacancy:

• NeoGov Job Application (The responses on your job application should be thorough and complete and will be used in the screening process)
• Supplemental Questions (The responses to the supplemental questions should be thorough and complete and will be used in the screening process)

Your application may be rejected as incomplete if you do not include the relevant information in the application. Cover letters and/or resumes are not accepted in lieu of a completed application.

Applications and/or Supplemental Questionnaires that state "see my resume" or "see my personnel file" are considered incomplete and will not be accepted.

This selection process may also be used to create a pool of candidates for current and future career service, term-limited temporary, and special duty opportunities. The pool will be active for 6 months.

WORK SCHEDULE/CONDITIONS: This position is exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime. Typical hours are Monday - Friday, 8 am - 5 pm. This position is represented by Protec17.

MISSION CRITICAL POSITION STATUS: 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.

TELEWORKING REQUIREMENT: DCHS 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 primary onsite location is the Chinook Building at 401 Fifth Avenue, 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.

RECRUITER: Greg Mallory, grmallory@kingcounty.gov

Requirements

Advance evaluation strategies and lead novel inquiry

• Identify, develop, and advance evaluation strategies and methods in coordination with division and unit management.
• Oversee and coordinate cross-cutting performance measurement and evaluation activities, including developing program and initiative evaluations, theories of change, and performance indicator reports.
• Develop and implement performance measurement and evaluation plans for complex and high-profile programs using a Results-Based Accountability (RBA) framework and an equity lens.

Analyze and report data

• Support the development and maintenance of data infrastructure.
• Clean, maintain, and manage data across multiple sources.
• Conduct novel analyses and work with partners to distill actionable inferences from findings.
• Analyze quarterly and annual quantitative data using appropriate methods and tools.
• Prepare data for dashboards (or other reporting tools), and narratives for dissemination.
• Respond to data requests requiring integrated data, complex analytical methods, and recommendations for high-profile bodies of work.
• Complete narrative coding of qualitative data and assist with reports.

Collaborate with partners to drive meaning-making

• Use findings to support a strategy-aligned project portfolio.
• Provide data-driven insights to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical assistance on data collection and ensure data quality.
• Support data share backs and presentations.

Contribute to Unit, Division, and Departmental infrastructure and priorities

Qualifications

Overarching Items

• Experience in youth development, restorative practices, trauma-informed approaches, and/or community-led strategies that support youth and families impacted by the juvenile legal system.
• Demonstrated ongoing commitment to learning, understanding, and effective application of anti-racist and equity practices when working with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities, as well as LGBTQ, immigrant/refugee, and disability communities.
• Strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, focusing on continuous quality improvement.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience in presenting data and collaborating with diverse partners.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks independently while adapting to changing priorities.

Evaluation Design

• Demonstrated experience with performance measurement systems in juvenile justice, social, health, or human services, applying a racial equity lens in evaluation design, analysis, and results interpretation.
• Ability to gather data using qualitative and quantitative approaches such as interviews, group processes, surveys, electronic data files, or other methods.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience cleaning, validating, and analyzing qualitative or quantitative data using multiple of the following or similar applications: R, Python, STATA, SAS, SQL, SPSS, Dedoose, Atlas.ti.

Partner Engagement

• Ability to build and sustain partnerships with juvenile justice-focused nonprofits and community-based providers, ensuring evaluation efforts reflect community priorities and lived experience.
• Demonstrated skill in group decision-making and consensus-building, with a commitment to power-sharing and elevating community voice in evaluation and program design.

Desired Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills

• Five or more years of experience working in or conducting research and evaluation projects.
• Knowledge of juvenile justice, trauma-informed practice, education, or social services, and the use of performance management tools within a service environment.
• Extensive experience with data visualization and communication tools (e.g., developing reports or dashboards via R, Tableau, Microsoft PowerPoint, or Canva)
• Familiarity with the Results-Based Accountability framework.
• Familiarity with Developmental Evaluation concepts.
• Lived or professional experience in adolescent development, opportunity youth, college career readiness, wraparound supports, and youth development, or a deep interest in these sectors.

Additional Information

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Together, with leadership and our employees, we're changing the way government delivers service and winning national recognition as a model of excellence. Are you ready to make a difference? Come join the team dedicated to serving one of the nation's best places to live, work and play.

Guided by our "True North", we are making King County a welcoming community where every person can thrive. We value diversity, inclusion and belonging in our workplace and workforce. To reach this goal we are committed to workforce equity. Equitable recruiting, support, and retention is how we will obtain the highest quality workforce in our region; a workforce that shares and will help advance our guiding principles - we are one team; we solve problems; we focus on the customer; we drive for results; we are racially just; we respect all people; we lead the way; and we are responsible stewards. We encourage people of all backgrounds and identities to apply, including Native American and people of color, immigrants, refugees, women, LGBTQ+, people living with disabilities, and veterans.

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Our EEO policy applies to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, selection for training, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation.

To Apply

If you are interested in pursuing this position, please follow the application instructions carefully.

If you need this announcement in an alternate language or format, would like to request accommodation or assistance in the application or assessment process or if you have questions please contact the recruiter listed on this job announcement.