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.

Our Watch recognises and values diversity among 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 a 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 working on several exciting evaluation reports in 2020 as well as planning for new evaluations to be delivered under the fourth and final Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2010-2022.

The media was identified in the original National Plan and its successive action plans as a key site for primary prevention due to its potential influence on public understandings of VAW1

The Senior Evaluation Advisor will likely be focused on evaluating and facilitating learning from past and current program activities in this setting and share the learnings to increase quality prevention practice across Australia.

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

About you

The position requires the incumbent to have:

• Strategic and learning approach to evaluation with a strong focus on accountable, ethical and intersectional practice;
• Demonstrated ability to design and undertake qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods;
• A commitment to the primary prevention of violence against women and advancing gender equality;
• Capacity to communicate findings and learning in accessible and engaging formats for a range of formats;
• Experience in analysing data and translating the findings for policy and practice; and
• The ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative cross-organisation team

Experience in data collection and analysis (including experience with quantitative and qualitative data and various methodologies, e.g. online surveys, and stakeholder interviews) as well as translating key findings to inform project improvement and design emerging practice will be highly valuable.

A position description is attached.