EL1 Assistant Director, Research and Evaluation

The opportunity
Our client is a large federal government agency responsible for implementing Australia’s largest social reform since Medicare. They have a great opportunity for an EL1 Assistant Director Research Evaluation to join the Research and Evaluation Branch, and focus on the evaluation of a major national research project involving developmental delays in children, spanning multiple phases.

• Initial 12 month contract with ongoing extensions highly likely
• Richmond or Geelong location with 1 to 3 days in office – excellent flexibility
• EL1 level with a daily rate of $602.55 plus super

The Role
As the EL1 Assistant Director Research Evaluation, you will oversee the evaluation across multiple levels of the multi-year program researching developmental delays, including evaluation of implementation and scalability, effectiveness of the program, and service integration. This will include significant stakeholder engagement with a wide range of external stakeholders, as well as project management, and producing and presenting reports. Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Working with external and internal stakeholders to scope, deliver and govern the evaluation
• Preparing ethics and site governance applications
• Collecting and analysing a range of quantitative, qualitative and survey data, including coordinating other members of the Research and Evaluation Branch on such activities
• Ensuring the evaluation is conducted in accordance with appropriate guidelines, standard operating procedures, NDIS standards and ethics requirements, and maintaining project related records
• Preparing and presenting reports and slide-pack summaries for internal and external stakeholders
• Working collaboratively with other teams in the Research and Evaluation Branch, as required
• Designing and conducting other research projects, including working with people with various types of disabilities and from various cultural backgrounds
• Communicate and support the implementation of research findings

About You
The successful applicant will have:

• Strong previous experience as an evaluator, or in research or program evaluation
• Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to work with stakeholders to determine stakeholder needs, program logics and outcomes required
• Experience in using a range of sophisticated methods including quantitative and qualitative methods and embedding the participant at the heart of the work
• Demonstrated ability to work with external and internal stakeholders to scope, deliver and govern the evaluation
• Demonstrated experience delivering end to end formative and impact evaluations which have informed change
• Ideal industry experience could be from a Clinical background such as allied health, psychology, OT, speech pathology, or a strong background in clinical trials and managing large research projects
• Experience in using a range of sophisticated methods including quantitative, qualitative and economic methods, and embedding the participant at the heart of the work
• Excellent presentation and stakeholder skills

Please note that this role is with a federal government organisation and is only open to Australian Citizens.

Apply:
Submit your resume, or for further information please contact samuel.beckett@talentinternational.com