Team Leader, Research and Evaluation

**_Team Leader, Research and Evaluation_**

**Employment Type**: Full Time - Exempt (Up to April 2027)
**Position Classification**: Health Manager Level 4
**Remuneration**: $141,974.00 - $169,151.00 per annum, plus superannuation and 17.5% leave loading
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Location**: 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards, Sydney
**Requisition ID**: REQ566186
- **Be part of an organisation that makes a difference in cancer control in NSW**:

- **Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply**

**_Where you’ll be working_**

The Cancer Institute NSW is the NSW Government’s cancer control agency, established to lessen the impact of cancer across the state.

Working at the Cancer Institute NSW means joining a team of committed and dedicated staff who are proud to be a part of the Institute’s purpose of overseeing and accelerating the effectiveness of cancer control in NSW.

The Cancer Institute is a collaborative working environment that encourages diversity and inclusion in how we work and the way we work together. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. Greater consideration will be given to suitable applicants, in order to improve access to employment and career opportunities (GSE Rule 26).

**_ What you’ll be doing_**

There are currently two team leaders for a team of eight staff members. This role is to co-lead the development, implementation and reporting of research and evaluation projects to measure and monitor the performance of Cancer Screening and Prevention programs and activities, and to inform planning, cancer control policy and practice.

**_ Remuneration/Benefits_**

In addition to base salary:

- 11.5% superannuation
- 4 weeks annual leave (plus 17.5% leave loading)
- 10 days sick leave
- 40 hours per week which include accrual of monthly Allocated Day Off (ADO) x 12 per year.

Access to:

- Generous Flexible Working practices
- Fitness Passport: a membership card for NSW government employees that gives you and your family unlimited access to 400+ gyms and other facilities at one low price.
- Novated car leasing arrangement
- Salary sacrificing to superannuation.
- Your resume (maximum five pages)
- A covering letter addressing the Essential Requirements, as outlined in the Role Description
- A response to the Pre-screening questions, as outlined below.

**_Essential requirements_**
- Advanced tertiary qualifications in an appropriate discipline such as public health, epidemiology, psychology or social science, or demonstrated relevant equivalent professional experience and training.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing research projects, including study design, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and evaluation.
- Demonstrated experience designing and commissioning behavioural research studies, and managing contracts with research firms and other research partners (e.g. academics).
- Proven ability to manage a team responsible for designing, gathering and analysing quantitative and qualitative behavioural data.
- Understanding of the NSW Health Records and Information Privacy Act.
- Experience submitting and managing projects for ethics approval by a Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC).

**_ Pre-screening questions_**
- Please provide an example of where you have had to redesign a significant survey program in response to changing environmental conditions. What were the strength and limitations of the program, and how and why did they need to be redesigned?
- Please outline your experience in managing multiple priorities concurrently, whilst addressing diverse stakeholder needs in providing services given the variety and complexity of systems.

**_Interested?_**

For more information:

- Click here for the Role Description

**Applications Close: Monday, 16th April 2025 at 11:59PM**

The CORE+4 Values define what is important to the Cancer Institute NSW and our employees.
Our values are: Collaboration, Openness, Respect, Empowerment, Strategic, Supportive, Innovative and Flexible.

The Cancer Institute NSW is unable to offer salary packaging. Salaries will be negotiated commensurate to experience and qualifications of the role.

To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.