Research and Evaluation Specialist

Posted: 06/06/2025

Closing Date: 23/06/2025

Job Type: Temporary

Location: Richmond

Job Category: Community Services and Development

**About the organisation**

**Jesuit Social Services is a social change organisation working to build a just society where all people can live to their full potential.** We reflect on the critical factors shaping our contemporary world; the social, political and economic contexts, and we adapt our practice to work with those most in need.**:
Since 1977, Jesuit Social Services has provided services to some of the most disadvantaged in our community.

**We place a high priority on advocacy and are a leader in policy development and research.**:
**About the program**

The Men’s Project is an initiative of Jesuit Social Services launched in 2017 that builds on Jesuit Social Services’ over 45-year engagement with boys and men in trouble. We provide leadership on the reduction of violence and other harmful behaviours prevalent among boys and men and build approaches to improve their wellbeing and keep families and communities safe.

Our vision is for good men, respectful relationships and safe communities.

We aim to achieve this through a focus on:

- Enabling influencers to take action - building knowledge, skills and confidence among those who work with men / boys and have opportunities to make our communities safer, including by promoting positive change related to what it means to be a man in the 21st century.
- Child sexual abuse prevention - engaging with young people and adults at risk of offending to protect children.
- Healing and healthy relationships - working with young people who have experienced harms to support them to flourish and build skills to strengthen their connection with self / others

Across each of these focus areas, The Men’s Project seeks to:

- Build knowledge about behaviours / attitudes to prevent men’s violence and harm.
- Design, deliver & evaluate programs and initiatives, including to promote help seeking (particularly digital / online).

Engage with decision makers, our sector and communities to change hearts, minds and systems towards love and justice.

**About the role**:
The purpose of the role is to:

- To lead and contribute to the end-to-end delivery of rigorous and high-quality research and evaluation projects that strengthen the standard of evidence (such as quasi-experimental or experimental evaluations) which underpins our programs, in consultation with Manager and senior management and academic partners.
- To lead and contribute to uplifting the evaluation knowledge and capabilities across The Men’s Project.

**What Jesuit Social Services can offer you**:

- An organisation that lives its values, through its day to day work
- A welcoming and supportive relational environment
- A comprehensive Induction and Orientation program
- Ongoing training and development related to your role
- Employee assistance program
- A competitive salary plus salary packaging benefits
- Generous leave

Competitive remuneration, plus salary packaging benefit, is offered together with ongoing professional and career development as well as opportunities for personal growth.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**About you**:

- Relevant experience leading, designing and contributing to research projects and evaluations in not-for-profit, academic, corporate or government context.
- An understanding of research, policy and reform directions related to the prevention of men’s violence and child sexual abuse.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience leading and contributing to the authorship of reports, and the ability to synthesise complex information and communicate this to a range of audiences.
- Experience and capabilities in the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data as well as quasi-experimental or experimental evaluations.
- Strong project management and organisational skills, including experience overseeing and delivering a significant project.
- Excellent relationship building and stakeholder management capabilities.

**How to apply**:

- Upload your resume and cover letter incorporating your responses to the Key Selection Criteria from the Position Description.
- For further information please contact Melanie Thomson, Manager Research and Evaluation, 0476 781 401.

**Applications close at 5.00pm on Monday 23**rd** of June 2025**

**Jesuit Social Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We celebrate and welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, cultural background, age, gender, sexuality, disability or religious affiliation.**

**Jesuit Social Services is a Child Safe organisation and is committed to protecting children and young people from harm. We require all applicants to undergo an extensive screening process prior to appointment.