Director, Centers of Excellence [19 / 10 / 2025]...

Overview

This position's primary mission is to establish Centers of Excellence (COE) throughout our global network to improve our overall ministry effectiveness. These Centers will achieve this goal by finding and disseminating best practices and providing leading-edge knowledge across our network. More specifically, the Director will accelerate our market penetration strategy by conducting evaluation research, identifying evidence-based best practices, promoting adopting these best practices, and training National Ministry leaders throughout our global network.

The Director will develop and test the first COE in Colombia over the course of the next three years. Once the prototype has been developed and evaluated to be effective, the Director will lead the replication of COEs in other regions worldwide. This position requires successful collaboration across all PFI departments, including program and regional offices, marketing & communications, development, and evaluation teams.

Responsibilities

• Identify a portfolio of promising programs that can be implemented by the host National Ministry and studied empirically. Ensure sufficient program scaling to provide adequate experimental and control groups for each program. Establish a rich program testbed that serves as a laboratory for identifying best practices.
• Work with evaluation partners to implement a comprehensive evaluation strategy, including targeted program activities, evaluation standards and processes, and reporting and publishing requirements. Ensure full buy-in and support from prison officials and ministry leaders. Ensure timely and high-quality data collection and reporting.
• Work with evaluators to publish and disseminate findings in peer-reviewed journals and the popular press.
• Identify a cluster of evidence-based best practices within each program area that emerges from our evaluation research. Package these best practices in simple, understandable formats that are user-friendly and can be implemented out of the box.
• Lead COE marketing and communications strategies. Work cross-functionally with MarCom to create and implement a comprehensive communications strategy and plan to promote evidence-based best practices worldwide. Drive best practice awareness and adoption through PFI communications resources and regional forums.
• Develop training curricula that support the training of National Ministry leaders in each best practice program. Work with subject matter experts to create learning experiences, courses, and assessments that are uniquely designed for National Ministry leaders. Package in the form of trainer and participant handbooks and resources.
• Develop and work cross-functionally with Global Impact teams to execute a global training strategy that includes forum-based training, online workshops, and boot camp-style onsite training. Mobilize a team of program innovators as adjunct faculty to assist in the delivery of training worldwide.
• Mobilize and lead the core team responsible for each Center of Excellence, including program, evaluation, training, and communications experts. Provide tactical leadership for Centers of Excellence that research and develop new programs, implement innovative projects and programs, evaluate and promote outcomes, and identify and promote best practices.
• Actively work cross-functionally with PFI's development teams to generate donor investments in the expansion and growth of COEs. This includes hosting vision trips, preparing major donor proposals / reports, promoting Centers of Excellence, conducting third-party evaluations, and other related activities.
• Develop and maintain the COE operations plan, including outcomes and output metrics. Conduct a process and outcome evaluation of the Colombian prototype. Develop a multi-year Center of Excellence business plan to include replication sites around the world.

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