Assistant Director, Measurement

1 month ago

Canberra, Australia Australian Government Full time

Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT | Brisbane, QLD | Adelaide, SA | Perth, WA
- $120,636 - $133,328 + 15.4% superannuation

**About the Department of Education**
We contribute to Australia's economic prosperity and social wellbeing by creating opportunities and driving better outcomes through access to quality education and learning.

**The Role**
As an Assistant Director (EL1) in the Measurement & Evaluation team, you will lead a team to help measure and evaluate the efficacy and impact of Australian Education policy and programs.

Measurement and Evaluation has a dynamic and varied work program, supporting all of the department’s major policy areas. The team develops customised measurement and evaluation solutions across a range of scales, time horizons, and pathways to impact.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
In this role, you will be responsible for the following:

- Designing and planning evaluation, working closely with policy areas to undertake evaluation processes and implement recommendations.
- Providing expert advice on the design of education assessments, surveys and other data collection instruments to ensure or evaluate their validity, reliability and relevance.
- Analysing integrated and custom datasets to evaluate the impact of policies and programs, including administrative data, surveys, benchmarking and financial data.
- Developing toolkits, training and other resources to increase the department’s measurement and evaluation capability.
- Designing and implementing strategic projects to consolidate findings, enhance measurement and evaluation capability across the department and communicate effectively to senior executives.
- Leading and managing a team of junior staff to deliver these functions.

**Qualifications and Education**
Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field are highly desirable for this position, preferably in a field that regularly conducts quantitative causal inference (e.g. randomised trials or quasi-experimental designs).

This may include psychology, behavioural science, epidemiology, public health, econometrics, biostatistics, data science, or other fields including research and quantitative analysis methods.

**How to Apply**
- Provide a summary (**no more than 750 words**) that outlines your skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.
- Upload your Resume
- Provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**
Citizenship - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

Please refer to the **Job Information Pack** for more information about the role.

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