Manager Outcomes

**About the Department**

The department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.

The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.

**About the Division**

The Division operates to deliver a set of connected services to provide the right information to the right people at the right time:

- Continuously build evidence of what works through generating analytic insights, evaluation and managing data on system performance and departmental outcomes to inform evidence-based decision making
- Develop a strategic approach for the capture, analysis, evaluation and dissemination of key information, and knowledge that helps better inform evidence-based decision making
- Promote research and evaluation culture that involves working in partnership to investigate important questions and share evidence widely
- Monitor the Department's performance against internally and externally set measures and targets including Education State measures and those defined in the Outcomes Framework
- Inform high impact actions in schools and local area networks through the development, collection and integration of, accessible place-based information, for high quality system analysis to inform strategy, policy development and investment decisions
- Generate and report a more precise and timely analysis and evidence of outcomes for cohorts including on how Victoria's children and young people are faring, with a focus on vulnerable population groups
- Maintain the Division's Business Intelligence enterprise system capability to support the analysis and reporting needs of the Department and help inform policy change, program investment and resource management to improve learner outcomes.

**About the Role**

**This is a Full Time, Fixed term position commencing 28 September until 30 June 2029.**

This role leads a small team to deliver outputs related to the 'Enabling Vocational Pathways Reform' project.

To be successful within the position, you will need to be comfortable working with complex data arrangements, be able to manage stakeholder relationships, collaborate with others, manage a technical program of work and motivate others to deliver, and facilitate high quality outputs, reports and products.

The Manager has responsibility for:

- Working with executive leadership teams and other staff in the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Senior Secondary Reform and Pathways Taskforce, Schools and Regional Services group, and other teams in Performance and Evaluation Division, towards the delivery of a linked data asset and reports that assist with re-engaging early school leavers
- Oversight of business process documentation, including data flows between departments
- Effective management of technical and project staff
- Provision of expert advice in the development of linked data assets, outcomes measures and reporting
- Delivery of reporting products for Department of Education regions and schools, including provision of learning and development support and communications for the reports
- Facilitating cohesive communication, and developing and implementing continuous improvements to business processes, planning and feedback loops.

The Manager reports to the Director, Evidence, Insights and Analytics, in the Performance and Evaluation Division. The role is based in Melbourne, with hypbrid working arrangements, and flexibility.

**Attributes**
- Team leadership of analysts
- Data analysis and linkage using SQL
- Data analysis and visualisation in R and/or Python

And exhibit:

- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Collaborative working style.

**The following will be highly desirable**:

- Experience analysing data within the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Datalab environment
- Experience working within Microsoft Azure Databricks
- Experience with Victorian education data.
- Experience with or exposure to data governance agreements, such as data sharing agreements and/or privacy impact assessments

Knowledge of the senior secondary landscape and associated data and reporting would be an advantage.

**Further Information**

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

**Applications close** 11:59pm on Thursday 3 July 2025.