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SalaryResearch and Evaluation Director (Government)
About the company
Government department tasked with making life easier, accessible, and equitable for thousands of individuals and families across Australia. Currently seeking a Research and Evaluation Director to join their busy team for a 12-month temporary assignment.
About the role
As a Research and Evaluation Director, 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.
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- Proven experience in Evaluation leadership roles including analytics / statistics expertise within a government or consulting environment
- 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
- 12-month temporary assignment
- Full-time hours, Monday to Friday
- $750 - $900 per day + super
- Immediate start pending clearances
- Darwin NT location
To apply for this position, please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining examples of your ability to demonstrate the responsibilities and mandatory requirements outlined above.
*** Please note the successful candidate for the role must hold Australian Citizenship and be willing to complete federal police check ***
