Manager Statistical Analysis

**Manager Statistical Analysis**

**Location - Parramatta**

**Employment type - Temporary for up to 12 months, Full-Time**

**Salary - Clerk Grade 11/12 Salary ($134,411 - $** **$155,445), plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**

**About us**

The Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) is the lead agency under the Stronger Communities Cluster. DCJ works to enable everyone's right to access justice and help for families through early intervention and inclusion, with benefits for the whole community. Stronger Communities is focussed on achieving safe, just, inclusive and resilient communities by providing services that are effective and responsive to community needs. For the first time, the creation of DCJ and Stronger Communities provides an opportunity to focus on prevention and early intervention across both the social welfare and justice systems.

**About the role**

The role leads a small team responsible for informing DCJ-wide business planning, policy development and service reform by undertaking a wide variety of complex quantitative analyses such as
- Building models to better understand future service demand and supply issues.
- Producing short term and long-term projections of the demand population for various services.
- Analysing the impact of programs or reform initiatives on client outcomes
- Analysing non-administrative datasets such as ABS Census or other survey data
- Analysing administrative datasets including datasets linked with services provided by other government departments to better understand drivers or association between client outcomes
- Undertaking predictive analytics
- Providing support with survey design, sampling or analysis
- Providing advice or review of quantitative methodology

**What you’ll do**
- Manage and lead project teams to undertake specialist statistical analysis and modelling projects to assess the impact of and influence policy proposals, and program and service design and delivery initiatives.
- Manage and lead statistical analysis and modelling to identify and define emerging issues which impact on the achievement of the Government’s objectives.
- Develop and implement strategies to help DCJ build a policy evidence base with sufficient breadth and depth to inform DCJ strategic decisions.
- Develop the business unit’s capacity to translate analysis and research into practice, allowing internal and external stakeholders to have relevant evidence that can be used to improve frontline services and client outcomes. This includes preparing analysis reports, presenting at conferences and workshops, and representing on DCJ on working groups and committees.
- Provide proactive and evidence-based advice to the business unit leader, Director and/or the Executive Director as statistical analysis and modelling projects are developed and undertaken to ensure that the methodology is robust and will contribute to the identification, monitoring and improvement of client outcomes.
- Support the process of continuous improvement in the development and use of evidence in decision making - keeping up to date with new developments in statistics and data science, sharing learnings, developing tools to embed evidence in others work and exemplifying best practice.
- Liaise and work across DCJ Divisions, other government agencies and non-government stakeholders to ensure effective interface between program development, planning, service design and policy implementation.
- Lead and drive team management, work planning, coaching and professional development initiatives to align resources and deliver priorities.

**What we’re looking for**
- Knowledge and experience in statistics, econometrics, mathematics or a related discipline
- Experience in leading and managing high quality quantitative analysis and modelling to drive critical business decision making
- High level project managements skills with a demonstrated ability to manage conflicting commitments and priorities, use clear judgement under pressure and deliver on outcomes within budget and resource allocation
- High level communication skills with the demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across a range of stakeholders including other DCJ Divisions, State and Commonwealth agencies, academics/researchers and other organisations
- Experience in managing, mentoring and developing people
- Knowledge and experience in programming languages such as SPSS or R

For more detailed information download the role description.

**We do work that really matters**

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

**Are you ready to join us?**

**Applications close** 12th March 20