We’re Hiring!

We are looking for a full-time Evaluation Consultant to join our team. If you're a sharp, collaborative thinker with a passion for evaluation and a background in the nonprofit sector, we'd love to hear from you. This role is at the heart of our mission — helping organizations and communities learn, grow, and create real impact. Sound like you? Read on.

Elevate Consulting is a Nashville-based consulting firm that collaborates with community members, leaders, and organizations to develop and implement processes for learning and improving services, systems, and structures for equitable social change. Founded in 2016, Elevate believes that human connection, learning, and intentional action strengthens organizations and communities. We are a woman-owned and -led firm built on a team-based approach, pairing clients with consultants who bring relevant expertise and genuine investment in the work.

Elevate’s core services span research and evaluation, strategic planning, and community and stakeholder engagement. We design and lead full-scale evaluations, build evaluation capacity, develop strategic frameworks, and facilitate meaningful planning processes with organizations across sectors. Our team of skilled evaluators, applied researchers, facilitators, and nonprofit/philanthropy experts brings a multidisciplinary approach to every engagement, drawing from the social sciences, organizational development, change management, and community change.

Elevate’s core services span research and evaluation, strategic planning, and community and stakeholder engagement. We design and lead full-scale evaluations, build evaluation capacity, develop strategic frameworks, and facilitate meaningful planning processes with organizations across sectors. Our team of skilled evaluators, applied researchers, facilitators, and nonprofit/philanthropy experts brings a multidisciplinary approach to every engagement, drawing from the social sciences, organizational development, change management, and community change.

Who We Are

What We Value

  • We believe learning is critical for change, and we build spaces where people can engage in deep, meaningful learning

  • We build trust, cultivate respect, and work alongside communities to create social change.

  • We recognize the power dynamics inherent in our work. We push back on inequitable structures when we see them, we challenge our partners to critically examine their power, and we commit to challenging our own power and privilege.

  • We understand that social change is complex, interconnected, and constantly evolving, and we use approaches that embrace that complexity.

  • We strive to provide excellent, responsive, rigorous, and professional services that are highly relevant within local contexts. We hold each other accountable to continually learning and improving our craft.

  • We believe in data and strategies that are useful, accessible, applicable, and actionable, and we use specific tools and frameworks to ensure the relevance of our work.

  • We do this work because we believe in it and because we enjoy it. We aim to share that energy in every interaction.

Who We Are Looking For

Elevate Consulting, LLC seeks a full-time, salaried Evaluation Consultant to lead and support projects in alignment with our core values and quality professional practices.

Elevate recognizes that a diverse representation of experiences, identities, and perspectives is critical to ensuring our work is equitable, relevant, and responsive to the needs of the communities we serve. We are committed to prioritizing applicants who contribute to the diversity of our team.

What Evaluation Consultants Do at Elevate

  • Employ best practices in evaluation and applied research to support client needs, including a range of hands-on training, consulting, and contract evaluation projects

  • Collaborate with team members to undertake short-term or long-term projects to address a variety of evaluation needs across programs, organizations, and collaboratives.

  • Lead client-facing projects in collaboration with other Elevate team members, including:

    • Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients and other stakeholders in alignment with Elevate’s core values

    • Managing project timelines  and providing high-quality, useful deliverables on time

    • Coordinating a small project team of Elevate team members to accomplish project goals

  • Facilitate meetings with clients and project stakeholders to understand and meet their needs

  • Develop recommendations to support clients’ learning, capacity-building, and improvement

What We Expect in a Consultant at Elevate

Education + Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree and 6-8 years of work experience in a related field OR Master’s degree and 2-4 years of experience in a related field (e.g., nonprofit management/leadership, applied research, evaluation, community development, community psychology, social work, etc.)

  • Experience utilizing social science research and evaluation methods 

  • Experience working with nonprofits, foundations, government entities, and other mission-driven organizations

  • Experience supporting data-driven processes across a range of settings, including strategy/planning and systems change/collaborative work

Skills

Consultants at Elevate are responsible for a wide range of project types, requiring different skill sets. We are looking for candidates who have demonstrated knowledge, skills, and expertise in Evaluation and experience with providing evaluation support in Strategy and Planning and Systems Change:

Evaluation

Nonprofit/Philanthropic Strategy and Planning

Community-based Collaboration and Systems Change

  • Oral and written communication skills

  • Relationship management skills

  • Time and project management skills

  • Designing and facilitating evaluation strategy sessions to identify evaluation questions, needs, and priorities

  • Developing theories of change, logic models, and evaluation plans for clients 

  • Selecting and implementing the appropriate quantitative and qualitative research methods to meet project needs

  • Managing qualitative and quantitative data sets  

  • Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data 

  • Developing compelling and approachable data visuals that support client interpretation and learning

  • Compiling findings in reports

  • Leading evaluation design & projects

  • Facilitating conversations to support clients in interpreting findings and articulating learnings and use

  • Proactively identifying barriers to evaluation success and developing plans to mitigate them in alignment with client capacity and needs

  • Developing and participating in strategic planning processes for nonprofit organizations 

  • Designing and implementing methods/tools to collect relevant landscape data to inform strategic planning 

  • Utilizing a variety of methodologies to support teams and organizations in developing and drafting progress indicators and success metrics to support an organization’s strategic goals and strategies

  • Knowledge of basic nonprofit governance best practices and experience working with nonprofit boards

  • Utilizing best practices to engage community members and generate input on a population-level need or topic

  • Designing processes to support community members in identifying and agreeing on shared measurement toward community-level goals

  • Developing processes and activities to move a group towards that shared goal

  • Facilitating meetings and workshops 

  • Utilizing data to inform strategy and implementation 

  • Designing and implementing evaluative processes to understand the effectiveness of collaborative and systems change efforts

We also expect that Consultants at Elevate have excellent:

  • Interpersonal skills

  • Attention to detail

Characteristics

Independent worker: Identifies as someone who can “take the ball and run with it”

Adaptable: Comfortable with a small business environment and flexible schedule

Collaborative: Supports team members by offering support, communicating needs and feedback, and aligning behavior to team norms and guidelines

Responsive and Communicative: Completes work and provides feedback in a timely manner

Reflective: Commits to regular self-assessment and is focused on learning and improving 

Responsible: Approaches professional work with integrity

Equity-focused: Understands and acknowledges the importance of approaching this work with an equity lens

Working Conditions

Elevate is based in Nashville, TN. Much of Elevate’s work internally and with clients is conducted remotely; however, staff are expected to attend regular in-person meetings and accommodate client requests for in-person meetings. As such, we are prioritizing applicants who live in or are willing to relocate to Nashville within 6 months of their hire date.

Salary + Benefits

  • Salary Range: $75,000-$80,000

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance available (partial coverage by Elevate)

  • Three months paid parental leave

  • Internet & phone stipend

  • Flexible, hybrid work schedule with generous time off

    • 24 days of PTO

    • 3 paid sick days per month

    • 8 paid federal holidays: MLK Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Juneteenth, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Day After Thanksgiving + 1 floating holiday of choice (Presidents Day, Indigenous Peoples Day, or Veterans Day)

    • Two weeks of paid holidays at the end of the year

  • Quarterly profit share (contingent upon profitability on the business)

  • Referral bonus for clients new to Elevate

  • Longevity bonus for minimum 3 years of employment at Elevate

  • Annual professional development and training budget

  • 401k (Elevate will match up to 4%), which can be applied to qualified student loan payments, if applicable (per SECURE 2.0 Act)

How to Apply

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. The planned start date for this position is August 10, 2026.

Application Guidelines

To apply for this job, please submit your resume and answers to the following questionnaire via email to hello@consultelevate.com. The questionnaire below may be submitted in written (PDF) or video format, depending on your preference. If submitting via video, a simple smartphone or Zoom recording will suffice (we do not expect a highly produced video). 

We request that you do not utilize any form of AI or AI-generated tools to complete your questionnaire.

Application Questionnaire

  1. Which of Elevate's core values resonates with you the most, and why?  

  2. What interests you about this role?  

  3. Which of your professional or academic experiences has best prepared you with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in this job, and why?  

  4. Please share your previous experiences working with nonprofit and mission-driven organizations. 

  5. It's important to us that our team be representative of many diverse experiences, identities, and perspectives. Among many benefits, we know this diversity improves our work with clients and communities as well as our internal teams. Please share how your experiences and perspectives might inform your work with Elevate.

Case Study

Candidates that progress following the first interview stage will be asked to complete a brief case study, which includes a data analysis, visualization component, and meeting facilitation planning to give us greater insight into your current skills. The case study is fictional and will only be used as a component of the hiring process. Candidates that progress to the case study exercise will be compensated for their time.

We request that you do not utilize any form of AI or AI-generated tools to complete your case study exercise.

Hiring Process + Estimated Timeline

Applicants for this position can expect the following process and estimated timeline:

If you have any questions regarding the application materials, process, or timeline, please email hello@consultelevate.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Elevate provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regarding race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.