Evaluation Officer

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / Ongoing

Organisation: Department of Health

**Salary**: $76,817 - $93,275

Occupation: Policy

Reference: VG/DHSP/1824925

The Department of Health plays a critical role in the Victorian health system and is responsible for shaping it to meet the health needs of all Victorians. We’re focused on supporting Victorians to be as healthy as they can; whether through alerting them to seasonal risks like thunderstorm asthma, notifying them of contact with communicable diseases, safeguarding their drinking water, developing the best health, wellbeing and care facilities in the world, being at the forefront of mental health and wellbeing treatment or accelerating medical research. It’s all part of the way we partner with the community to help every individual lead a healthy life.

**About the role**:
Are you:

- passionate about using data to make a difference?
- looking to kickstart your career in public service?

As a Evaluation Officer (quantitative focus), you will play a key role in supporting evaluation projects within the Victorian Government (Department of Health and Department of Families, Fairness, and Housing).

Your primary responsibilities will involve assisting in preparing and administering evaluations, focusing on data access, collection, preparation, management and quantitative analysis and data visualisation.

In this role, you will focus on contributing to the completion of projects, managing your tasks efficiently, and integrating feedback to continuously improve your work. Your efforts will support the strategic and operational goals of the Victorian Government.

**About us**:
At the Victorian Department of Health we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. A Victoria where our children and people thrive, our workplaces are productive and safe, and our communities are more connected.

We see it as our job to support Victorians to stay healthy and safe. And to deliver a world-class healthcare system that ensures every single Victorian can access safe, quality care that leads to better health outcomes for all.

**How you'll make a difference**:
**Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate**:
**Knowledge and Skills**

Quantitative Analysis
- **Assess impact**: Provide support in conducting impact evaluations for government programs. Under the guidance of more senior staff, design and use appropriate methodologies and statistical models, including the use of appropriate counterfactuals.

**Financial modelling and economic analyses**: Contribute to costing analyses to help inform evaluation findings and generate evidence for policy recommendations.

Evaluation design and execution - Knowledge of design options for evaluations using mixed methods approaches.

Continuous Improvement - Commitment to contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and a feedback culture.

Communication and Reporting - Commitment to create clear and impactful reports and presentations. Ability to effectively communicate complex data and recommendations to diverse audiences.

**Personal Qualities**

Initative and Accountability - Proactive and self-starting; seizes opportunities and acts upon them; takes responsibility for own actions. Demonstrated willingness to be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities with the ability to meet deadlines while working in pressured situations.

Teamwork - Cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals; collaborates and shares information; shows consideration, concern, and respect for others' feelings and ideas; accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others; encourages resolution of conflict within the group.

Creativity and Innovation - Generates new ideas; draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things; actively influences events and promotes ideas; translates creative ideas into workplace improvements; reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.

Flexibility - Remains open to new ideas; adapts to changing priorities and environments; flexibly adjusts strategies and approaches to achieve the best outcomes; evaluates various options and demonstrates the courage to alter strategies when necessary. Builds commitment in others to embrace and implement new strategies effectively. Quickly learn and master new systems and methodologies.

Integrity - Committed to the public interest; operates in a manner that is consistent with the organisations code of conduct; inspires trust by treating all individuals fairly.

**Qualifications / Specialist Expertise**

Qualifications
- Tertiary qualifications in economics, impact evaluation, data science, public health, epidemiology, or another discipline with a strong statistical component would be preferred.
- Applicants with a tertiary qualification in other fields but with work experience in the above fields and experience in impact assessment or econometrics woul