Evaluation Manager

at  Chandler Macleod

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Government department tasked with making life easier, accessible, and equitable for thousands of individuals and families across Australia. Currently seeking an Evaluation Manager - Government to join their busy team for a 12-month temporary assignment.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Evaluation Manager, you will manage a multidisciplinary team delivering robust mixed methods research and evaluations, including those involving inferential statistical analyses. In addition, your key duties are as follow:

• Developing and managing program logic models, theory of change and evaluation frameworks
• Leading new ways for using existing and new data for measuring outcomes for the Agency and its clients
• Developing and managing key strategic relationships with a broad range of stakeholders designing and delivering evaluation projects
• Overseeing and preparing a range of high-quality written evaluation findings including business cases, Parliamentary, Ministerial, Senate Estimates briefs and Agency documentation.
• Developing, leading, and promoting a culture of evaluative thinking across the Agency and building capacity of other business units to undertake evaluations of their business activities.
• Collaborate with the Research and Evaluation Branch leadership team, delivering the Research and Evaluation Strategy.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Proven experience in Evaluation leadership roles including analytics / statistics expertise within a Federal or State government
• Previous experience in leading teams in large scale, complex evaluations and government programs
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Background in designing evaluations and producing evaluation logics that reflect the business needs
• Demonstrates experience of delivering end to end formative and impact evaluations which have informed change.
• Experience in using quantitative, qualitative and economic methods, and embedding the participant at the heart of the wor