Qualitative Researcher

4 days ago

Brisbane, Australia Health and Wellbeing Queensland Full time

The applicant should have experience with research in an applied setting such as not for profit, think tank, private/consulting or government organizations, where research is rapidly translated and applied into a practice setting.Key accountabilities include:

- Collect and analyse data using participatory action research and qualitative research methods as part of the overall systemic inquiry approach.
- data collection: interviews, group workshops, observational data
- data analysis: qualitative data coding, grounded theory and conversational analysis
- Identifying implications for policy and practice based on findings.
- Communicating the results of findings to key audience through the development of various dissemination products including reports, briefs, blogs, academic articles and data visualisations.
- Undertake rapid reviews of grey literature on topics as required.
- Support development of measuring change framework in line with developmental evaluation approaches for systems change.
- Build relationships with key project partners to support project goals.
- Supporting overall project management including contributing to organisational documentation and needs
- Work as part of the team to co-create project methodologies and outputs including:

- Team critical thinking and sensemaking
- Working in an adaptive way
- Engagement and support team/project reflective practice
- Implement and manage a repository of research resources (currently Mendeley)

It will be a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19.
The role description will outline any qualifications, licences and specific requirements of the role. If you are interested in this job we encourage you to read the attached role description and talk to the contact officer.
Applications will remain current for 12 months after the closing date of this vacancy and may be used to fill identical or similar roles.
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