About Tipping Point
Tipping Point finds, funds, and strengthens the most promising poverty-fighting solutions so one day everyone in the Bay Area can prosper. Since 2005, Tipping Point has invested $510 million in the community to support organizations, advance policies, and develop new ideas to increase economic opportunity. Last year, our investments funded life-changing services in housing, early childhood, education, and employment for more than 100,000 of our neighbors across the Bay Area. Visit www.tippingpoint.org to learn more.
Values
Tipping Point’s core values are at the heart of everything we do and we look for individuals who share our commitments:
We cultivate community because we know we are more powerful together.
We practice gratitude.
We hold ourselves accountable to achieving impact for and with the communities we serve.
We relentlessly pursue equity because one’s background and identities should not predetermine one’s opportunities.
Position Overview
The Research + Innovation Director has a deep commitment to Tipping Point’s mission to fight poverty in the Bay Area. They have demonstrated technical expertise in the design and implementation of measurement, evaluation and research activities, and experience with the social sector. The role of the Research + Innovation Director is to increase Tipping Point’s impact through the insights from research, monitoring, and evaluation activities. In partnership with the Senior Director of Impact, the Research + Innovation Director advises the Program Team and determines the most effective and impactful way to test new solutions, informed by community need and aligned with overall impact goals. This role communicates new ideas, knowledge, and results from these efforts to diverse audiences, from the general public and grantmakers to subject matter experts and grantee partners, through facilitated training, blog posts, and written reports.
The Research + Innovation Director is on the Impact Team and reports to the Senior Director of Impact.
Responsibilities
Learning
Leads the ongoing development and execution of Tipping Point’s learning agendas in new areas of investment and on topics that cut across Tipping Point’s core issues areas.
This includes newly announced investment areas such as pathways for economic mobility for young people and sector-focused pathways, as well as cross-cutting topics such as the role of artificial intelligence in the changing economy, and increasing access to the social safety net.
Serves as a thought partner to the Senior Director of Impact and the Policy Director to synthesize findings from research and the impact of policy investments to improve grantmaking strategy and inform policy change strategy and efforts.
Works closely with the Capacity Building team and Learning + Evaluation Managers to lead workshops and discussions with grantees on topics that cut across core issue areas to develop learning and evaluation materials targeted towards grantees and partner organizations.
Serves as research/content lead and develops and leads rapid-turnaround monitoring and learning opportunities in new areas of investment.
Stays current on external research, sector trends, and emerging approaches to poverty alleviation, and shares relevant insights with the Program and organizational leadership.
Monitoring & Evaluation
Provides high-quality analytical support and partnership to the Program Team in measuring
grantee and portfolio outcomes, capacity building efforts, and the impact of pilot investments.
Leads development, implementation, monitoring, and analysis of outcomes for investments made under new areas of investment and in policy efforts.
Provides decision-making support and strategic thought partnership to the Senior Director of Impact on learning and evaluation issues, such as applied research, performance measurement, and data analysis.
Leads measurement of the impact of Tipping Point’s Capacity Building activities, in partnership with the…