Data & Evaluation Coordinator

**JOB SUMMARY** The Data & Evaluation Coordinator plays a central role in helping SOKS understand, manage, improve, and communicate the impact of its rural health initiatives. By developing strong data systems, performance dashboards, and meaningful reporting, this position ensures SOKS has the information needed to meet KDHE requirements, strengthen partnerships, guide organizational decision-making, improve program effectiveness, and clearly demonstrate measurable outcomes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, families, healthcare providers, schools, and rural communities. Ultimately, this role helps transform data into insight, insight into action, and action into measurable impact. **ESSENTIAL DUTIES, FUNCTIONS, AND RESPONSIBILITIES** ***Data Tracking, Reporting, and Evaluation*** - Compile all data required for quarterly, annual, and ad hoc reports to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). - Track grant baseline values, targets, milestones, progress updates, and required deliverables. - Create and maintain data tracking tools, repositories, dashboards, reporting templates, and supporting documentation. - Establish data quality standards, validation processes, and routine quality assurance reviews. - Identify, investigate, and communicate suspected data quality issues. - Support continuous performance improvement by producing timely, meaningful, and actionable reporting. - Assist in maintaining project issue logs, risk logs, and performance tracking documentation. ***Grant Performance Metrics, Reporting & Compliance*** - Collect, analyze, validate, and maintain data necessary to support federal, state, and grant-funded program reporting requirements. - Monitor grant performance metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and program outcomes to measure progress toward established goals and objectives. - Prepare accurate and timely reports, dashboards, and supporting documentation for funding agencies, leadership, and other stakeholders in accordance with grant requirements. - Ensure data integrity through ongoing quality assurance, reconciliation, and validation of program data and supporting records. - Track progress toward grant deliverables, performance targets, and reporting milestones, identifying potential risks or deficiencies and recommending corrective actions as needed. - Collaborate with internal staff, program leaders, and external partners to collect required information and ensure compliance with grant reporting standards. - Maintain documentation supporting grant activities, expenditures, performance measures, and audit readiness. - Support continuous improvement efforts by analyzing trends, evaluating program effectiveness, and providing data-informed recommendations to enhance grant outcomes. - Perform other grant reporting, compliance, and performance measurement responsibilities as assigned to support organizational and funding agency objectives. ***Systems, Dashboards, and Process Development*** - Create KPI dashboards and reporting views for leadership, program teams, rural coordinators, referral coordination services, and healthcare hubs. - Develop activity tracking mechanisms that enable regional coordinators to demonstrate progress toward grant objectives before formal outcome milestones are achieved. - Implement reporting processes and technology supporting youth programming, preventative health education, inclusive health training, Healthy Athletes screenings, referral follow-up, and other health initiatives. - Design and implement efficient data collection workflows for Healthy Athletes screenings and referral follow-up activities. - Configure reporting systems supporting Referral Coordination Services. - Build flexible tracking tools that can evolve alongside program and grant requirements. ***Partner, Hub, and Referral Coordination Reporting*** - Develop reporting tools for both the statewide healthcare hub strategy and individual hub performance. -…