Senior Advisor – Impact Evaluation, The Centre for Evidence and Implementation (Melbourne or Sydney)
Closing date: Wednesday 18 August 2021
- Location: Melbourne or Sydney
- Full-Time: 2-year contract
Are you looking for a new challenge and want to join a successful and growing organisation dedicated to creating lasting and effective social change? Do you have a passion for real-world implementation of evidence-informed solutions? If so, we want to hear from you.
Why CEI is a great place to work
The Centre for Evidence and Implementation (CEI) believes good evidence and effective implementation have the power to solve our most pressing social problems. We are passionate about using our expertise to work with policy makers, practitioners and organisational leaders and funders to effectively use evidence to change lives for the better. We are an independent, not-for-profit organisation motivated by our mission to improve the lives of children, families and communities facing adversity.
Closing date: Monday 2 August 2021, 11:55pm AEST
Job No.: 621688
Location: Melbourne CBD
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: 12-month fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: $102,120 - $112,722 pa HEW Level 08 (plus 10% employer superannuation)
- Be inspired, every day
- Enjoy the freedom to discover something new
- Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions
There’s a certain feeling you get from working at Monash University. It’s the feeling that you’re a part of something special. Something significant. So if you’re looking for the next chapter in your career, it’s here. You’ll be given the opportunity to challenge yourself, build on your skills, and make a significant contribution to a workplace that’s filled with energetic and inspiring people. Talent thrives here – and so do truly satisfying careers.
Closing date: Friday 13th August 2021
Good to Great Schools Australia (GGSA) partners with schools and school systems to support school improvement along a journey from Poor to Fair, Fair to Good and Good to Great.
About the business unit
GGSA completes many excellent initiatives in their partner schools. While current indicators suggest many educational successes, we always strive to improve in measuring results, providing the right information/resources to our partners, and analysing other information that makes us smarter. A key challenge is how to continually improve measuring, reporting, and analytical capabilities.
About the role
The Monitoring and Evaluation Expert will contribute to the team of Project Developers and lead the project data team. The Monitoring and Evaluation Expert does several functions outlined in the Position Description (see below). This role essentially manages the data teams support to the project.
You will lead work on complex projects that are at various stages on the trial and development. All team members need to use their diligence daily to problem solve and develop new ideas. That means the role operates in an environment with a lot of ambiguity. This can be very challenging and so you need to really like working with uncertainty and be able to problem solve, research and embrace new ideas.
Closing date: Thursday 30th September 2021
FamilyCare, a regional Victorian human service provider in partnership with La Trobe University, is offering an industry PhD scholarship to an outstanding applicant. The successful applicant will develop a data platform to support evidence informed practice. Capturing accurate, consistent and reliable data on FamilyCare’s activity levels, is essential for client outcomes and service user feedback to support staff.
This project aspires to not only a change functionality but support an evolution of workplace and practice culture that enhances reporting on the quality of services delivered.
Applicants with a background in epidemiology, psychology, sociology or social work with a strong affinity for quantitative research methods are invited to apply. You are interested in working with data sets and translation to practice. This project is focused on data ‘behind the scenes’ that informs direct service delivery. You have a passion for setting up strategy and processes that ensure that direct work with clients can be undertaking evidenced informed. You will have excellent people skills to engage internal and external stakeholders. This doctoral candidate will investigate the interface between data collection platforms and quality service delivery drawing on existing theory and developing regional capacity to delivery services.
Closing date: Thursday 22nd July 2021
- VPS Grade 5.2
- Fixed term 18 months. This role is also being offered as a secondment to existing VPS employees.
- Do you have a passion for measuring the impact of community engagement projects and supporting colleagues to learn more about best practice evaluation, enjoy a varied and interesting workload, in a dynamic team, which leads to a genuine impact on decision making?
About the role
Reporting to the Manager Education and Inclusion within our Communication and Engagement Branch, this is a fantastic opportunity where you will have significant impact on building the evaluation expertise and capability of staff within the VEC Communication and Engagement Branch. This will require developing, implementing and reporting on a Branch evaluation plan which aims to ensure systematic outcome reporting.
In this unique role, you will be responsible for supporting and developing evaluation frameworks, program logics and evaluation tools to measure the impact of our community engagement work which focusses on those traditionally under-represented in the electoral process which includes people with disabilities, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, First Nations People, people experiencing homelessness or in prison and young people.
Closing date: Wednesday 21st July 2021
We are currently seeking to recruit a Programs Manager to join the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery & Health.
The role works to ensure that the WHO CC implements its work plan and projects according to its mission and key strength areas. In addition the WHO CC Programs Manager would provide planning and management functions for the Centre, and provide project management, research duties, and carry out MERL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning) for WHO CC programs.
Closing date: Friday 23rd July 2021
Allen + Clarke is looking for an experienced evaluation and research manager to join our Evaluation + Research Practice in Wellington, New Zealand. This is a senior/leadership role, working closely with the Practice Lead to set the direction of the practice, build capability, manage people and workflow, and to secure future work. It also involves working on teams in the delivery of evaluation or research projects for clients. We have some flexibility to adjust the balance in responsibilities to fit your strengths.
We need someone with extensive evaluation and qualitative and/or quantitative research experience, and knowledge of a range of evaluation and research methods and approaches. Experience in managing and coaching staff is essential. As is an ability to plan, manage and lead high-quality evaluation and research projects through from inception to completion within a team environment. You may be knowledgeable and experienced in kaupapa Maori and/or Pasifika research or evaluation, or can work consciously and mindfully across cultures and with differing cultural knowledge frameworks.