Assistant Director for Evaluation
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, United States
Dr. Rebecca Kruse is the Assistant Director for Evaluation in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer’s Division of Program Analysis and Evaluation and Deputy Evaluation Officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Rebecca leads Department-wide implementation of Title 1 of the Evidence Act, coordinating the development of the Department’s public quadrennial learning agenda, annual evaluation plans, and the quadrennial assessment of the Department's capacity for evidence building and use. She oversees the implementation of the Department’s centralized and decentralized evaluation functions, including supporting DHS Components’ implementation of the DHS Program, Policy, and Organizational Evaluation Policy, developing educational and other solutions to increase Department capacity for evaluation, and co-managing an active portfolio of evaluation projects with Component collaborators. She was awarded the Federal Government Evaluation Officer Council Recognition Program FY2021 “Evaluation Officer Go-Getter Award” for advancing evaluation capacity at DHS.
Rebecca joined DHS in 2020 after serving as an Evaluator for the National Science Foundation (2014-2020) and as Evaluation Director for the U.S. Army Educational Outreach Program (2013-2014). Rebecca’s 20+ year career in federal and private sectors has focused on harnessing research and evaluation to prove and improve the effectiveness of discrete interventions, systemic initiatives, and federal programs and policies that support the homeland security mission, as well as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) research and development (R&D), STEM workforce development, and STEM learning in formal and informal settings. Rebecca’s work has focused on designing and delivering equitable solutions to advance the participation and outcomes of historically underrepresented and underserved groups.
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