Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist

7 months ago

Sydney, Australia Uniting Full time

**Monitoring, Evaluation and learning Specialist Part time Perm role - 15 hours per week over 2 days with some flexibility and wfh options. This role is not available as fully remote.**

**Based in Coffs-Nambucca area.**
- Be at the forefront of community-led initiatives that empower young people and transform communities.
- Work with passionate teams and community leaders to design and implement innovative solutions that make a real difference.
- **Great Base Salary + Super and NFP Salary Packaging Benefits (extra $18,550 tax-free) - Take home more pay.**

**About Uniting’s Community-Led Place-Based Initiatives**

Uniting is committed to funding the backbone operatives of three community-led place-based initiatives in the Shoalhaven and the Mid North Coast. These initiatives focus on strengthening community and broader supports around children and young people, ensuring they can thrive. This includes a strong commitment to listening to and responding to the issues important to young people, as well as providing them with opportunities to lead. **Learn more about our projects here**: Firefly Bay and Basin and Becoming U.

**Role Purpose**

This role is central to ensuring that our backbone teams remain focused on what is most needed to strengthen community supports around young people. You will collaborate with three main stakeholder groups vital to this work:
**_ The community around young people, including the young people themselves._**

**_ The Backbone teams working to strengthen their communities._**

**_ The Uniting leadership team responsible for resourcing and supporting the backbone teams._**

You will work alongside the Community Impact Strategy Lead and your co-evaluation specialist (also part-time), prioritising and implementing areas for monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) to continually improve the work and positive impacts for young people. This includes working within our Theory of Change and project-level MEL frameworks while assessing where these tools need improvement. Some travel to sites and occasional trips to Sydney required.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Assess the efficacy of our Theory of Change and local MEL Frameworks, making improvement recommendations.
- Develop and implement a MEL strategy for each site in collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Oversee the design, collection, and storage of data important to each program and community.
- Identify important community-level data around improving outcomes for young people.
- Socialise and translate data across community stakeholder groups.
- Involve community and youth stakeholders in MEL processes and reporting.
- Provide high-level advice on improving place-based evaluation processes.

**Programs you will work with**

You will be part of the social impact, innovation, and advocacy directorate of Uniting, working with a specialist team focused on community led place-based work that has been initiated and funded by Uniting.

**Expected Outcomes**
- A MEL framework that the whole team and community partners buy into.
- Teams supported in data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
- Safely stored, accessible, and useful community and project-level data.
- Socialised data that strengthens youth and community learning.

**Essential Qualifications & Experience**:

- Tertiary qualification in social research or a related field.
- At least 8 years’ experience in higher-level MEL for complex projects.
- Proven ability in both quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Strong project and time management skills.
- Experience in coaching and supporting teams in data collection and evaluation.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Comfortable working remotely and using online communication tools.
- Understanding and support of community-led, place-based approaches.
- Ability to prioritise tasks based on emerging needs.
- Passionate about making a measurable difference in communities.

To review the role responsibilities in greater detail please review the comprehensive Position Description by clicking on the link below.

PD - Monitoring, Evaluation and learning Specialist.

**What We Offer You**
- A rewarding career with a leading human services organisation.
- Up to $18,550 NFP salary packaging available.
- Access to our U rewards program with exclusive discounts.
- Flexible work hours for work-life balance.
- Access to Fitness Passport - Live your best life.
- A supportive and inclusive and collaborative work environment.
- Opportunities for professional growth.
- Purchase of additional leave.

**How to apply**:

- Uniting is a Child Safe Organisation committed to promoting the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people. We also celebrate the diversity of ability, age, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, intersex variation, or gender identity and always welcome everyone exactly as they are._

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