Evaluation Manager - Government

Evaluation Manager - GovernmentAbout the companyGovernment department tasked with making life easier, accessible, and equitable for thousands of individuals and families across Australia. Currently seeking an Evaluation Manager - Government to join their busy team for a 12-month temporary assignment.About the roleAs an Evaluation Manager, you will manage a multidisciplinary team delivering robust mixed methods research and evaluations, including those involving inferential statistical analyses. In addition, your key duties are as follow:

• Developing and managing program logic models, theory of change and evaluation frameworks
• Leading new ways for using existing and new data for measuring outcomes for the Agency and its clients
• Developing and managing key strategic relationships with a broad range of stakeholders designing and delivering evaluation projects
• Overseeing and preparing a range of high-quality written evaluation findings including business cases, Parliamentary, Ministerial, Senate Estimates briefs and Agency documentation.
• Developing, leading, and promoting a culture of evaluative thinking across the Agency and building capacity of other business units to undertake evaluations of their business activities.
• Collaborate with the Research and Evaluation Branch leadership team, delivering the Research and Evaluation Strategy.

About youTo be successful in this role, you must have:

• Proven experience in Evaluation leadership roles including analytics / statistics expertise within a Federal or State government
• Previous experience in leading teams in large scale, complex evaluations and government programs
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Background in designing evaluations and producing evaluation logics that reflect the business needs
• Demonstrates experience of delivering end to end formative and impact evaluations which have informed change.
• Experience in using quantitative, qualitative and economic methods, and embedding the participant at the heart of the work

Benefits

• 12-month temporary assignment
• Full-time hours, Monday to Friday
• $750 - $900 per day + super
• Immediate start pending clearances

*** Please note the successful candidate for the role must hold Australian Citizenship and be willing to complete federal police check **At Chandler Macleod, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce where everyone is welcome. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, people living with a disability and the LGBTIQA+ community.You can read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion at