Grassroots Solutions (www.grassrootssolutions.com) is an engagement strategy and evaluation firm committed to building healthy, just, and equitable communities. Majority-owned by women, we’re a diverse team based in eight states and the District of Columbia with backgrounds in campaigns, policy, philanthropy, and advocacy. Since our founding in 1999, our clients have included hundreds of philanthropic, electoral, nonprofit, and advocacy organizations working for progressive change.
As a values-driven consulting firm, we are committed to centering racial justice, gender justice, and equity in our work with clients and internal operations. We hold ourselves accountable to that commitment through our interactions with our clients, their collaborators, and each other. In addition, it shapes our contracting processes with subcontractors and vendors, operations, and internal professional development.
Grassroots Solutions is looking to hire a senior strategist to help manage and ensure outstanding client service for our evaluation practice. In this role you will work on a team with principals and project managers to design and implement evaluation and learning projects about engagement strategies, and in particular, philanthropic efforts. The position offers variety not only in the type and length of evaluations that will be worked on, but in the tasks that will be performed. Our evaluation and learning work includes participatory, developmental, formative, summative, and social justice-focused evaluations of programs and strategies that are often emergent and involve an array of participants and contributors.
To us, evaluation is leverage that helps unstick people and organizations in the face of both complex problems and opportunities. At its most potent, we believe evaluation can contribute to the learning necessary to achieve the transformative changes—dismantling structural and systemic racism, realizing a healthy and equitable democracy, focusing climate action on the people most affected, and building power in communities disproportionately affected by generations of economic and other forms of injustice—that we and our clients seek. We are guided by a set of values and commitments that include learning for action, centering people and relationships, and service to equity and justice.