Senior Learning & Impact Officer

Strong grantmaking requires more than investing in promising ideas. It requires asking the right questions, building evidence, and applying what we learn. As a Senior Learning and Impact Officer with the Planning, Learning, and Impact team, you’ll put your research and evaluation expertise to work within Ascendium’s Expand Opportunity strategy, working alongside colleagues and grant partners to understand what works, for whom, and under what conditions. Your work will help strengthen our grantmaking and advance approaches that create more pathways to upward mobility for learners from low-income backgrounds.

Reporting to the Director of Learning and Impact, you’ll lead a portfolio of research and evaluation grants and help shape how we learn from our investments. Your expertise in workforce development, apprenticeships, sectoral training programs, or related areas will help inform investments in approaches that create more options for learners to access postsecondary education and workforce training that lead to living-wage employment in high-growth, high-demand fields. You’ll also collaborate across strategies and contribute to broader learning priorities throughout Ascendium’s Education Philanthropy.