Position Details
We are looking for a Senior Evaluation Consultant to join our growing management consultancy in Melbourne.
Do you want your expertise to be in the room where decisions get made, and to make a genuine difference to people's lives and wellbeing?
Have you spent time honing your evaluation craft and are ready to use it in complex, fast-moving, high-impact consulting?
If this is you, Allen + Clarke wants to hear from you.
About us
Allen + Clarke is a values-driven management consultancy specialising in evaluation, public policy, strategy, and organisational development. We are trusted advisors to government, non-government and mission-driven organisations across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. We have offices in Melbourne and Wellington. Our company vision is to empower clients and communities to overcome the challenges facing society. We give a damn. That means we believe in being and giving our best, the importance of people and always being authentic. Our consultants are flexible, hard-working and committed. They care and want to make a difference by delivering excellent work for our clients. They know how to work at pace. They never lose sight of quality. They are good at identifying opportunities, risks and issues and mitigating them to ensure success for our clients. They enjoy looking for business development opportunities to make our impact sustainable.
The opportunity
This is a senior role for an experienced evaluator. We are seeking a consultant with 10 years or more professional experience delivering evaluation services.
As a Senior Evaluation Consultant, you'll design and deliver evaluations across health, human services, justice, education, and broader social sector programs and policies. You will work with Commonwealth and state government clients, NGOs, and private sector organisations. You will help clients understand what's working, what isn't, and what to do about it — and you'll do it in a way that's practical, credible, and useful.
Our evaluation work is designed to make a difference. We choose the right approach for the question, stay focused on what clients need to know, and deliver pragmatic insights they can use.
As you grow with us, you will have the opportunity to take on greater responsibility shaping our approach to evaluation practice and contributing to the strategic direction of the consultancy. You will have a key role how we develop and innovate our evaluation offering, and we will create space for you to do that.
In a typical week, you might:
• Meet a client to understand their context and identify how our evaluation expertise can help them
• Lead Project Teams across several evaluation projects for a range of clients with varying outputs, including for example a mixed-methods, multi-site evaluation; an Outcomes Framework and a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.
• Lead a team brainstorm to design an evaluation approach and shape our value proposition for a proposal
• Design data collection instruments such as interview guides, surveys, or focus group protocols that are tailored to the evaluation questions and participants
• Conduct interviews or stakeholder engagement sessions as part of primary data collection
• Analyse qualitative and/or quantitative data and pull out what it's telling us
• Write up evaluation results into a compelling narrative, translating evidence into clear, actionable findings and recommendations
• Facilitate a participatory interpretation session to help a client make sense of emerging findings
• Peer review a colleague's report and support them to lift the quality of the analysis
• Check in on your projects, tracking time, budget, and risks to ensure everything is on track.
About you
You are a values-driven person, keen to bring about meaningful social change. You are a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and the ability to translate complex evidence into practical recommendations.
Key Selection Criteria:
We want to hear from you if you bring:
• 10 years plus experience conducting evaluations, ideally in a consultancy setting
• The ability to lead complex evaluations end-to-end, including design, delivery, reporting, and dissemination
• Strong skills in qualitative and/or quantitative methods, and the ability to design the right approach to answer the evaluation questions
• Knowledge of evaluation theories, frameworks, and methodologies, and the judgement to apply them pragmatically
• Proven ability to manage project teams, mentor less experienced colleagues, and maintain quality across multiple workstreams
• Confidence in engaging openly and flexibly with clients and building their trust
• A commercial mindset: you understand the value of time, you're motivated to deliver efficiently, and you know how to write a compelling proposal
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to develop clear, compelling reports, briefings, and presentations that cut through complexity
• Cultural competence and the ability to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other diverse communities in a culturally safe and respectful way
• Familiarity with, or active interest in, how AI tools can improve the efficiency and quality of evaluation work, alongside the critical thinking to use them appropriately and ethically
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and consistently deliver high-quality work to deadlines.
Key personal attributes:
• have a can-do attitude, are highly organised and can work independently
• have a strong client focus.
What we offer
This is an ongoing role based in Melbourne and may require some domestic and international travel. We offer flexible working arrangements with the expectation that the majority of the work week is spent in the office (that means three days a week for full-time staff). We will provide a supportive, collaborative and collegial work environment with opportunities to mentor less experienced team members and to develop your evaluation consultancy skills alongside other experienced practitioners. We are committed to providing a supportive and culturally safe working environment for all our staff members, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees. Given the nature of our work, applicants must be Australian citizens (eligible for Australian Government security clearance). You can find out more about us at https://allenandclarke.com/au/
Details of how to apply:
Applications close 5pm Thursday 9 April 2026.
Applicants should provide:
• a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria outlined above, noting that it is not expected that applicants will meet all the Key Selection Criteria outlined
• a succinct curriculum vitae or resume of no more than 4 pages.
Applicants may apply via Seek or Ethical Jobs platforms.
Applicants must confirm they are eligible for Australian government security clearance, which is limited to Australian citizens.
If you have any questions, please contact
Deadline: 9 April 2026