Australia melbourne contract negotiable**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
- 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.
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