Gordon and Betty Moore established the foundation to create positive outcomes for future generations. Guided by this vision and the Statement of Founders' Intent , the foundation fosters path-breaking environmental conservation, scientific discovery, and preservation of the special character of the San Francisco Bay Area. We strive to make significant and durable impacts on the world.

Together, we work to honor the vision of our founders and serve as stewards of the resources they have entrusted to us. We establish specific strategies based on advice from experts, identify partners who share our goals and measure results along the way. We build relationships and fund work in areas where we hope to make significant impacts; and we know that working together expands our ability to drive meaningful change.

The Opportunity The foundation is seeking a highly collaborative project leader with deep expertise in adaptive management, measurement, evaluation, and learning to join our Adaptive Management and Evaluation department as the Adaptive Management and Evaluation Officer (Science) and Manager, External Evaluations. The Adaptive Management and Evaluation (AME) department advances the foundation's mission by helping program teams use evidence to set strategy, track progress, learn, and maximize impact. The department provides support in strategy development, measurement, evaluation, and learning; strengthens decision-making through fit-for-purpose data systems and analysis; facilitates program design, monitoring, and review processes; and manages foundation-wide efforts to align key business processes with the foundation's goals.

The Adaptive Management and Evaluation Officer (Science) and Manager, External Evaluations provides technical leadership in adaptive management, measurement, evaluation, and learning for the Science program. Science Program grantmaking spans the natural sciences and the science ecosystem, the latter encompassing informal science learning, evidence-informed decision making, and more. This role is well suited to someone with demonstrated experience in design, planning, execution, monitoring, and evaluation who can help teams articulate strategies and pathways to meaningful and measurable results.

As the AME Officer, you will partner closely with Science program colleagues and partners across and beyond the foundation, including other program and operational teams, consultants, senior leadership, external partners, and grantees. A major focus is the science enterprise: supporting work to understand and measure the conditions that enable discovery, including how policy, funding, and education interact with scientific progress, and helping identify useful signals such as researcher traits, collaboration patterns, and research design features. As the Manager, External Evaluations, you will develop scopes of work; identify, select, and manage evaluation consultants; partner with consultants and internal stakeholders to produce high-quality deliverables; and provide and coordinate briefings and presentations to the foundation’s Board of Trustees.

Success in this role requires sound technical judgment, exceptional project management skills, and the ability to build trusted relationships across a wide range of internal and external partners. This role reports to the foundation’s Chief Adaptive Management and Evaluation Officer, and is based in Palo Alto, California, at the foundation’s main office. We operate under a hybrid work model that combines flexibility with meaningful in-person collaboration.

Staff are required to work and reside within a reasonable driving distance of the Palo Alto office, and this role will work onsite in Palo Alto a minimum of four days each month. Additional on-site presence is required during the weeks of the May, August, and November board meetings and periodically throughout the year as business needs require. A fully remote work arrangement is not available for this position.