About Our Watch

Our Watch is a national, not for profit, established in 2013, to drive nation-wide change in the culture, behaviours and structures driving violence against women and their children, based in Melbourne.

Our Watch’s vision is an Australia where women and their children live free from all forms of violence. Our mandate is to stop violence before it happens, and our purpose is to provide national leadership to prevent all forms of violence against women and their children. Our work will always be based on sound research and strong and diverse partnerships.

Our Watch recognises and values diversity amongst its staff and strongly encourages suitably qualified people from all backgrounds to apply, especially people who have a strong understanding of intersectionality, either by working with diverse population groups or through lived experience.

Our Watch is committed to increasing employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the organisation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

About the role

The Our Watch evaluation team will be undertaking several major evaluations within the education setting over the next two years. Building on our work in schools as a setting for building equal and respectful relationships, Our Watch is building the evidence base for effective models of practice in the tertiary space. The Senior Evaluation Advisor/s, Education will be focused on developing and delivering evaluations in both TAFEs and universities.

Evaluation is central to the organisation’s work and is a key component of our Strategic Plan and National Leadership Role. Our Watch is committed to prevention practice that is grounded in evidence (local and international), as well as contributing to the growing pool of knowledge on primary prevention. As a result, the Policy and Evaluation Team, have several existing and emerging project evaluations.

The Senior Advisor/s will be part of the Evaluation Team and will engage with a cross organisation team, working with internal experts from both Practice Leadership, Media and Communications as well as an external academic contractor (University of Melbourne) who are completing the impact data collection for the Universities Australia Project. Strong analysis and written communication skills will be essential as the Senior Advisor will be leading the development of the final evaluation reports, for various audiences.

About you

The position requires the incumbent to have:

• Demonstrated ability to undertake both qualitative and quantitative evaluation approaches.
• An understanding of developmental evaluation and/or action research methods.
• A commitment to the primary prevention of violence against women and advancing gender equality.
• Experience in analysing data and translating the findings for policy and practice.
• Experience in writing complex evaluation reports for government and other external stakeholders.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative cross-organisation team.

For further information please contact [email protected], using the subject line: Senior Evaluation Advisor - Education enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.