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Impact & Evaluation Manager

Design and implement program evaluation frameworks

Enhances◐ 1–3 years

What You Do Today

Develop logic models, theories of change, and evaluation plans for each program. Define measurable outcomes, select appropriate indicators, and design data collection methods that are rigorous but practical.

AI That Applies

AI suggests evaluation indicators based on program type and funder requirements, identifies validated measurement tools from research databases, and generates logic model templates.

Technologies

How It Works

The system ingests program type and funder requirements as its primary data source. The processing layer applies the appropriate analytical models to the structured data, generating scored outputs that surface the most actionable insights. The output — logic model templates — surfaces in the existing workflow where the practitioner can review and act on it.

What Changes

Evaluation design becomes more informed by AI surfacing relevant indicators and validated tools from research literature.

What Stays

Designing evaluation frameworks that are both rigorous and feasible within program constraints, and that measure what genuinely matters for the people served, require evaluation expertise and deep program understanding.

What To Do Next

This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.

1

Establish Your Baseline

Know where you are before you move

Before adopting AI tools for design and implement program evaluation frameworks, understand your current state.

Map your current process: Document how design and implement program evaluation frameworks works today — who does what, how long it takes, where the bottlenecks are. You need this baseline to measure improvement.
Identify the judgment points: Designing evaluation frameworks that are both rigorous and feasible within program constraints, and that measure what genuinely matters for the people served, require evaluation expertise and deep program understanding. These are the boundaries AI won't cross.
Assess your data readiness: AI tools for this area need data to work. Check whether your organization has the historical data, integrations, and data quality to support SurveyCTO tools.

Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.

2

Define Your Measures

What to track and how to calculate it

Time per cycle

How to calculate

Measure how long design and implement program evaluation frameworks takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.

Why it matters

The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.

Quality of output

How to calculate

Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.

Why it matters

Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.

When to check: Check after 30 days of consistent use, then quarterly.
The commitment: Give new tools at least 30 days before judging. The first week is always awkward.
What NOT to measure: Don't measure AI adoption rate as a KPI. Adoption follows value — if the tool helps, people use it.
3

Start These Conversations

Who to talk to and what to ask

your VP Operations or COO

What data do we already have that could improve how we handle design and implement program evaluation frameworks?

They're prioritizing which operational processes to automate

your process improvement or lean lead

Who on our team has the deepest experience with design and implement program evaluation frameworks, and what tools are they already using?

They understand the workflow dependencies that AI tools need to respect

a frontline supervisor

If we brought in AI tools for design and implement program evaluation frameworks, what would we measure before and after to know it actually helped?

They see the daily reality that AI tools need to fit into

4

Check Your Prerequisites

Confirm readiness before you invest

Check items as you confirm them.