About Our Watch

Our Watch is a national leader of primary prevention of violence against women and their children. Our vision is an Australia where women and their children live free from all forms of violence. Our role is to stop violence before it starts. We work to embed gender equality and prevent violence where Australians live, learn, work and socialise. We encourage applicants to visit our website and learn about the essential actions needed to prevent violence against women. To follow the ongoing conversation about preventing family violence against women please like our Facebook, Instagram, twitter or LinkedIn pages.

About the role

Our Watch has a Prevention In Action framework, the Annual Planning Cycle and the Prevention, Quality, Support and Reach (PQSR) team has a critical role in enabling the delivery teams to do this. PQSR’s streams of functions include program support, quality assurance and learning and our monitoring, evaluation and learning approach. It can also act as a point of coordination with the other Our Watch directorates.

As such, this role supports the implementation and development of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Framework.

The MEL Framework guides monitoring and evaluation of the work of the delivery team and builds on these monitoring and evaluation processes. Reporting to the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead, this role will be supporting the ongoing implementation of the MEL Framework.

About you

You will be a monitoring and evaluation practitioner with an interest or experience in gender equality and preventing violence against women. The role will require you have experience in working with a MEL Framework, expertise in collection, collation and analysis of monitoring data and tracking progress against identified indicators, and quality assurance. You will have experience in utilising qualitative and quantitative data. You will have capability to support appropriate and ethical data collection and analysis for the teams requirements and communicate the analysis to key and varied audiences.

You will support reporting required under the MEL Framework and be supervised by the MEL Lead. You will also provide support for the implementation of the Evidence and Impact Strategy. You will work collaboratively with colleagues and other Our Watch staff as required, to support work on key organisational and directorate strategic and operational plans.

Why work for us

Our Watch is strongly committed to the wellbeing of its employees, and we strive to continuously improve our employee experiences at work. Our Watch was recently recognised at the 2023 Australian HR Awards for the Best Workplace Flexibility Program and receiving an Excellence Award as an Employer of Choice in the Not-for-Profit Sector. Our Watch has also recently been announced as an Inclusive Employer by Diversity Council Australia.

For the full list of our award winning employee benefits, please view the 'Work with us' page on our website. 

A few of our unique award winning benefits include:

• Commitment to work life balance for staff, including flexible hours/ ways of working and 5 additional personal leave days per year.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents.
• Innovative leave policies, such as floating public holiday leave, cultural leave
• Cultural remuneration package for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff

How to Apply

To apply, please click on the apply now button and upload your current resume and cover letter for consideration. Please note, applications with a cover letter will be prioritised.

Hybrid, remote and work from home options considered within Australia.

Our Watch is committed to diversity, we value people of all cultures, languages, capacities, sexual orientations, gender identities and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our Watch is proud to offer Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander staff an additional remuneration package in recognition of the cultural load they carry and ongoing impacts of colonisation.

We are passionate about providing a barrier-free recruitment process, if you require modifications during the application process to meet your access needs, please contact us.

Applications will be assessed as received.

*Please note, interviews for this role will commence in January 2024

A position description is attached.