To obtain a copy of the Candidate Information Kit for this vacancy, please click on the 'Apply Now' button to the left of this advertisement. The key duties of the position include Employment Opportunity The Data, Evaluation and Behavioural Insights Branch has a strong focus on delivery of outcomes and works to improve decision-making and policy development by strengthening the department's evidence base. Our people come from diverse backgrounds, with different ways of working and thinking. Our work sits at the intersection of data, policy, and law and provides the opportunity to work with diverse areas and subject-matter experts across domains. Leading in expertise and knowledge on issues related to data analytics, data science, data governance, economics, behavioural insights and program evaluation, we are flexible, influential and collaborative. Our branch is seeking a high-performing and motivated Assistant Director who will be a senior staff member of the department's evaluation team. This team supports delivery of best practice evaluations and uplifting evaluation capability across the department. In this role, you will contribute to the delivery of evaluation projects and setting the vision, strategy and frameworks to shape and embed high-quality evaluation across the department. You will gain first-hand experience working on evaluation practices to underpin sound public policy across the department in a complex and diverse stakeholder environment. Key Responsibilities: supports the department to draw on evidence and use findings from evaluations to inform the development of future policy proposals supports the Director to provide strategic direction of the evaluation team and to maintain strategic oversight of evaluation activities in the department conducts a limited number of priority in-house evaluations each year contribute to setting the vision, strategy and frameworks to support high-quality evaluations contribute to uplifting the department's evaluation capability and maturity builds partnerships and collaborates to ensure that evaluative thinking is embedded in the department's work provides people management leadership, including guiding, supporting and developing team members, setting clear expectations, and overseeing performance, workload and wellbeing to ensure high-quality delivery communicates evaluation findings effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, including presenting to senior executive stakeholders. How you can help us make a difference To be successful, you will: have experience leading junior staff and work programs related to evaluation, and building capability have strong interpersonal, relationship building, stakeholder engagement and change management skills work independently and strategically while contributing to a highly collaborative team environment demonstrate initiative, resilience and professionalism in a dynamic environment have experience in project management of evaluation projects including coordinating tasks, prioritising competing demands and ability to work to agreed timelines have highly developed communication skills have strong analytical and problem-solving skills Additionally, it would be desirable to have: experience and/or academic qualifications in evaluation approaches and methods experience in undertaking research, data analysis, and evaluation of policies impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience delivering capability uplift, coaching junior staff and embedding evaluation in business workflows.
