Assistant Director - Research and Evaluation - Surry Hills

at  DFP Recruitment Services

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Federal Government Opportunity in Surry Hills
• 12-month contract with possibility of extension
• $602.55 per day + super
  The EL1 Assistant Director Research and Evaluation will support the Director of Strategic Evaluation to manage and deliver evaluations of strategic projects implemented by our client.
  Other functions will include helping to embed rigorous evaluation across the organisation, supporting business units to develop theory of change, logic models and evaluation frameworks, providing expert advice to business units undertaking evaluation and supervising staff as required.

• Managing and delivering strategic evaluations.
• Leading the development of logic models and monitoring and evaluation frameworks for other programs, policies and services.
• Supervising Senior Research and Evaluation Officer(s) and other staff to collect, analyse and report quantitative and qualitative data.
• Enhancing the Scheme’s use of evidence-informed practice in delivering outcomes for participants, carers and family members.
• Shaping and maintaining relationships and partnerships with external research bodies, including specialist agencies and relevant academic and technical experts, to ensure that the wider disability research community is effectively engaged to deliver benefits for the Scheme and people with disability across Australia.
• Building the organisations approach to innovation in delivering practice improvements and contemporary services and supports, to improve outcomes for participants (people with disabilities, their carers and families) and deliver a sustainable NDIS.