• Develop and lead a mission-aligned, cross-functional insights and analytics strategy that advances PRI’s cradle-to-career and place-based priorities. • Ensure data, evaluation, and collaborative improvement approaches are integrated with PRI strategy, communications, and direct service work. • Translate quantitative and qualitative information into accessible insights that explain context, root causes, and rationale for action. • Guide organizational learning processes that help PRI staff, partners, and stakeholders reflect on progress, adapt strategies, and strengthen impact. • Shape how PRI tells the story of rural communities, grounded in evidence, local experience, and an assets-based narrative. • Support development of shared metrics with local, regional, and/or statewide PBPs to track outcomes and system change. • Monitor effectiveness of rural strategies, using insights to inform course corrections and continuous improvement. • Oversee evaluation plans for PRI initiatives and funder-supported projects, ensuring rigor and practical relevance. • Strengthen infrastructure and systems that promote transparency, accountability, and responsible data use. • Support and mentor leaders within rural communities to strengthen local data capacity. • Manage a team of staff and consultants with expertise in analytics, improvement science, and evaluation, aligning their work to organizational priorities. • Effectively build and maintain internal relationships with PRI teams to successfully marshal PRI resources and expertise as needed to advance local, regional, and statewide strategies. • Oversee the design and application of analytic methods, dashboards, and improvement cycles that support partners and internal teams. • Collaborate with PRI leadership to document and elevate rural place-based learnings and promising practices. • Serve as a strategic advisor to PRI Leadership on trends, opportunities, and emerging issues. • Represent PRI as a speaker, facilitator, and thought partner at local, regional, statewide, and national convenings. • Partner with communications staff to craft narratives, reports, and tools that make insights actionable for diverse audiences. • Strengthen state and national partnerships that expand access to data, research, and innovative practices benefiting rural communities. • Ensure the insights and analytics strategy drives meaningful impact across multiple levels, including PRI teams, place-based partnerships, and local, regional, and national stakeholders. • Support PRI, local, regional, and partners as they identify and secure funding opportunities (public and private) to support rural initiatives. • Ensure high-quality funder communications that clearly articulate progress, insights, and impact. • Build strong relationships with funders and field partners, positioning PRI as a trusted collaborator and ensuring that PRI initiatives are impactful, sustainable, and well-aligned with PRI’s broader strategic priorities. • Ensure integration and alignment with core functions through ongoing collaboration with cross-functional leadership to embed data and analytics into the work. • Ensure high-quality communications that clearly articulate progress, insights, and impact.