Chief Evaluation Officer

The Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) is located within the DOL's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and is responsible for implementing, managing, and coordinating the Departments evaluation program and data analytics activities that are related to the Departments programs.

Duties

• Serve as a high-level manager in the Department, advising senior officials on issues related to evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of DOL agencies and programs.
• Oversee implementation of the Department's Evaluation Policy, which affirms the agency's commitment to conducting rigorous, relevant evaluations and to using evidence from evaluations to inform policy and practice. The policy also provides a clear understanding of the expectations related to key principles of evaluation including rigor, relevance, transparency, independence, and ethics.
• Advise agency leaders on issues of the evaluation policy and practice, such as designing and undertaking evaluations, interpreting results, and integrating evaluation findings into day-to-day agency operations, management processes, budgeting, strategic planning, and other decision making.
• Serve as the senior agency contact on evaluation for agency-wide and cross-cutting evaluation efforts, both with external stakeholders and in coordination with senior officials responsible for other agency functions, including officials responsible for implementing privacy policy, the Chief Data Officer, the Chief Information Officer, the Statistical Official, the Performance Improvement Officer.
• Coordinate evidence-building activities with the agency's Evidence Officials, including the Performance Improvement Officer, Statistical Official, and Chief Data Officer. These activities include leading a monthly coordinating meeting with the Evidence Officials and participating on DOL's Data Board.