El1 Research and Evaluation Inklings

**Location***
- Hobart, Tasmania
- **Category***
- Executive
- **Salary**
- $602.55 AUD - $603 AUD Daily
- **Posted**
- 07-Feb-2024
- **Work type**
- Casual/Temp
- **Contact**
- Teresa Zanatta
- **Reference**
- BH-156867
- **MANDATORY: AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN required to work within Federal Government**

**APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 3pm Wednesday 22nd of February 2024.**

**Our Federal Government Agency which supports a better life for hundreds of thousands of Australians with a significant and permanent disability and their families and carers. Is seeking to engage in an EL1 Research and Evaluation** **Inklings** **for a 12-month assignment with potential extension in HOBART.**

**What's in it for you?**
- **Position located in** **HOBART.**:

- **EL1 602.55 per day + super**:

- **Temporary contract for 12 months, with possibility to extend**:

- **Standard Hours or work - Monday to Friday, 8:30 am till 5:00 pm - 7 & ½ hour days 5 days a week.**

**About the Team**
The Evidence and Practice Leadership Branch is responsible for ensuring that NDIA policies, practices and priorities are informed by trustworthy and robust evidence. The branch aims to improve evidence based decision making within the NDIA and finds solutions to high priority issues, shaping disability research to maximise its impact for the NDIS.
The Evidence and Practice Leadership Branch is accountable for collating and conducting research, evidence, best practice and lived experiences for decision-making. This includes evaluating key NDIA programs and initiatives, ensuring staff are able to find, generate and utilise evidence for decision-making and translating our knowledge of research to our customers and stakeholders.
**About the Role**
The **EL1 Assistant Director Research and Evaluation** will support the delivery of an internal service that conducts research and evaluation using a range of methods to inform Agency decisions.

The **EL1 Assistant Director Research and Evaluation** will manage an implementation and effectiveness evaluation of a pre-emptive pilot program for infants showing early behavioural signs of autism in Western Australia (the Inklings Pilot). It will provide detailed technical, professional, policy and operational management of the program. The Assistant Director will also be required to coordinate and assist in other strategic planning, program, project management and policy development to support the NDIA’s objectives to “build a world-leading National Disability Insurance Scheme”.
**Key skills required for role/s**:

- 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.

**Desirable skills to haves for the role/s**:

- Either an academic or evaluation qualifications.
- Experience designing evaluations and producing evaluation logics that reflect the stakeholders/Agency’s needs.

**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.

**APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 3pm Wednesday 22nd of February 2024.**
(NOTE: the key responsibilities of the role are based on current priorities and may change over time)
**It is highly desirable that the successful applicant understand or lived experience in the field of disability.