Assistant Director, Research- Evidence Synthesis
6 days ago
**Job Details**:
**Location**
Melbourne
**Salary**
$585 - $665 per day
**Job Type**
Contract
**Ref**
JO-
2208-560140
**Contact**
Jarrodd Edwards
**Posted**
about 1 hour ago
Great opportunity take on a leadership role within the Research of a federal agency responsible for implementing Australia's largest social reform since Medicare.
Initial 12 month contract with ongoing extensions highly likely.
**The Role**
The EL1 Assistant Director Research and and Evidence Synthesis will support the planning and conduct of evidence synthesis projects and clinical trials of new non-pharmacological interventions or innovative service delivery aiming to deliver the best available research evidence to inform Agency decisions. The role will provide detailed technical, professional, policy and operational advice in relation to complex problems. It will be required to coordinate and assist in the strategic planning, program, project management and policy development.
Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
- Working with external partners (e.g., industry and academia) to develop and roll-out join research projects targeting a verity of supports and participant groups.
- Leading environmental scans, systematic or scoping reviews as well as meta-analyses of evidence and current practice relevant to the disability sector
- Designing and documenting protocols for environmental scans, evidence snapshots, scoping or systematic reviews of evidence relevant to participants or models of practice
- Ensuring the searching, screening, data extraction and reporting of scientific and grey literature is in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) standards
- Performing research in line with documented protocols for inclusion/exclusion of records, data extraction, assessment of quality and data synthesis
- Designing and documenting clinical trial protocols, analysis plans and ethics submissions
- Overseeing the implementation of clinical trials protocols by internal and external research staff in accordance with GCP and CONSORT guidelines
- Maintaining project related records including research software or platforms
- Preparing and presenting internal reports including slide-pack summaries for stakeholders and communicating recommendations to stakeholders based upon the findings
- Liaising with Evidence for Action team to ensure findings are effectively translated for participants, internal staff, partners and key stakeholders
About You
The successful applicant will have:
- A strong understanding of academic and professional clinical research demonstrated within a health context
- Strong core scientific research skills, and a skillset that includes data collection and analysis, quantitative research and statistics
- Excellent project management skills, and significant experience managing or leading commercial research projects, including the ability to lead other researchers, set priorities, manage timelines and plans, meet deadlines and work effectively under pressure to achieve project goals in line with stakeholder expectations
- A background in government, public or allied health, clinical psychology, or consulting will be ideal
Please note that this role is with a federal government organisation and is only open to Australian Citizens.
This is an EL1 level role with a daily rate of $585 + super on offer. The team is largely Melbourne based, but you could also be Adelaide or Sydney based for this role.
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