Organization Overview

As America approaches its 250th birthday, growing polarization threatens our national unity, democracy, and security. We cant afford to waitwe must address this divisiveness now. To chart a peaceful path forward, we need citizens who are well-informed, productively engaged, and committed to democracy. Todays 14-24-year-olds urgently need the civic knowledge and skills to solve the complex challenges our country faces. Yet, the institutions where they learn, work, and live are not fully equipped to provide them with the tools they need to become effective, collaborative citizens.

The mission of theInstitute for Citizens & Scholars(Citizens & Scholars) is to cultivate talent, ideas, and networks that develop young people as effective, lifelong citizens. Our vision is a strong American democracy and a flourishing civil society where all people can thrive. We collaborate with leaders in higher education, business, and philanthropy to transform colleges, workplaces, and communities into hubs for civic development. In each of these spaces, we develop and implement programs that equip young people with the civic skills needed to address the divisive issues facing our country. Our offerings include co-designed programs, digital products, convenings, trainings, fellowships, and coalition networks all with clear success metrics to measure real progress.

For the past 80 years, Citizens & Scholars has prepared leaders and engaged networks of people and organizations to meet urgent education challenges, helping to shape an informed, productively engaged, and committed citizenry. Formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, we have forged stronger connections between K12 and higher education and provided early funding for the work of 16 Nobel Laureates, 21 Pulitzer Prize winners, 27 Presidential and National Medalists, 44 MacArthur Genius Grant recipients, and more than 100 college presidents.

Today, under the leadership of its President,Rajiv Vinnakota, Citizens & Scholars is uniting the organization’s legacy with a commitment to launch new civic learning ventures in and beyond education, building unlikely alliances to reimagine and recenter citizen development for young people.

Position Overview

TheCampuswide ImmersionProgram Officer for Measurement & Evaluationwill play an integral role in supporting the Senior Program Officer for Measurement & Evaluation and the rest of the CWI Team, as well as the growing number of institutions that rely on CWI structure and support to diversify, strengthen, and evaluate their programming.

Campuswide Immersion (CWI) is a first-of-its-kind initiative created throughCollege Presidents for Civic Preparedness. Its mission is to create campus cultures where every student, not only those who choose to participate, feels empowered to engage in civil discourse, navigate information critically, and collaborate to solve shared challenges. Grounded in a shared theory of change, CWI partners with a campus-defined Action Council of faculty, staff and students to embed civic learning across the campus. Together, they cultivate the motivation, skills and social permission students need to navigate differences and lead with civic fluency. Through this work, colleges and universities strengthen democratic values and prepare the next generation of informed, engaged citizens.

Reporting to the Senior Program Officer for Measurement & Evaluation, this individual will be a trusted and essential colleague on the CWI team with strong knowledge of the program and its activities. This is a non-supervisory role that works collaboratively with the Senior Program Officer and broader CWI team to execute high-quality measurement and evaluation work. The position will focus on advanced quantitative analysis, testing validity and reliability of instruments, and developing analytic tools that support scalable delivery of results. The ideal candidate brings applied research expertise in higher education or non-profit programs, experience communicating research to a variety of audiences, and knowledge of working with collective datasets and evaluation frameworks.

This role, like all roles at Citizens & Scholars, is based out of our Princeton, NJ headquarters, and will require occasional visits to the Princeton office. However, most time will be spent working remotely, and the ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable working in a remote work environment.

Essence of the Position

Support the research, assessment, and analytical infrastructure for Campuswide Immersion (CWI), an initiative engaging 40+ institutions in creating campus cultures that support civic fluency. This role is designed to scale CWIs analytical capacity, strengthen the rigor of its measurement and evaluation work, and ensure findings are reliable, valid, and actionable across institutions.

Primary Focus

• Work closely with the Senior Program Officer to translate analytic outputs into interpretable findings, while maintaining appropriate methodological caveats and documentation.
• Independently execute advanced quantitative analyses in support of CWI evaluation and research, including data cleaning, preparation, statistical modeling, and reproducible workflows.
• Conduct validity and reliability testing for surveys and measurement instruments, selecting appropriate methods based on the data and research context.
• Lead the development, refinement, and maintenance of multi-institutional datasets, ensuring analysis-ready datasets that inform key evaluation and program decision.
• Manage online survey platforms and vendor relationships.
• In consultation with the Senior Program Officer, design scalable data pipelines and analytic infrastructure, improving efficiency, consistency, and replicability across CWI evaluation efforts.
• Independently create and maintain technical dashboards and reporting tools that…