The Senior Manager will lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-informed digital prevention interventions across Moonshot's U.S. Online Violence Prevention portfolio. This role combines substantive expertise in violence prevention and behavioral interventions with strong program and people leadership, ensuring campaigns are grounded in prevention best practices, responsive to the needs of their intended audiences, and effective in achieving meaningful prevention outcomes.
The Senior Manager will oversee a team delivering diverse prevention campaigns, including help-seeking interventions, bystander awareness, pre-bunking, and resilience-building initiatives. Working closely with digital advertising specialists, threat assessment practitioners, and other subject matter experts, they will ensure interventions are strategically sound, ethically delivered, and continuously improved through evidence and evaluation.
The role also includes oversight of complex project delivery, management and development of campaign teams, client engagement, and contributions to Moonshot's evolving prevention methodologies and organizational growth.
Candidates must be based in MA, CO, NY, VA, GA, PA, MD, WI, TN, TX, OR, NJ, or DC. Occasional travel may be required.
Your responsibilities will include:
Intervention Strategy, Design & Evaluation
Lead evidence-informed intervention design processes, identifying target audiences, risk and protective factors, behavioral objectives, theories of change, messaging strategies, and intervention pathways.
Oversee the design of diverse digital prevention initiatives, including help-seeking, bystander awareness, pre-bunking, and resilience-building campaigns.
Translate research, behavioral insights, and practitioner expertise into actionable intervention strategies, incorporating appropriate referral pathways and services where relevant.
Define meaningful intervention outcomes and oversee evaluation of campaign effectiveness beyond traditional digital advertising metrics, including help-seeking, service connections, and other intended behavioral outcomes.
Identify weaknesses in intervention strategies or outcomes and lead improvements informed by evidence, campaign findings, and emerging prevention research.
Project & Portfolio Delivery
Provide leadership and oversight across multiple projects, from scoping and planning through implementation, evaluation, and reporting.
Translate intervention strategies into actionable delivery plans, establish clear accountability, and exercise sound judgment in managing competing priorities, resources, budgets, and delivery risks.
Work closely with digital advertising specialists to ensure campaign execution, creative approaches, and optimization decisions support substantive prevention objectives.
Subject Matter Leadership & Quality Assurance
Apply substantive knowledge of targeted violence prevention, violent extremism, radicalization, and related fields to intervention design and delivery.
Collaborate with behavioral threat assessment practitioners, psychologists, researchers, and other specialists, recognizing when additional expertise or review is needed.
Ensure interventions meet high standards of ethical, evidence-informed practice, including appropriate safeguarding, risk management, specialist review, and staff wellbeing.
Strengthen the team's understanding of violence prevention principles and foster intellectual curiosity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and openness to practitioner feedback.
Client & Team Leadership
Serve as a primary point of contact for designated clients and partners, building trusted relationships and managing expectations throughout project delivery.
Brief clients and stakeholders on intervention strategies, progress, findings, and recommendations, translating complex information into actionable insights.
Lead and develop campaign managers and team members through effective delegation, coaching, constructive feedback, and…