Position Description:

Support the Research, Evaluation and Education pillar of Teach Us Consent which is focused on delivering evidence-based impact eradicating normalised youth-on-youth sexual violence.

Contribute your education and research experience to Teach Us Consent’s program, policy, and research agenda by engaging with experts and researchers, civil society, our youth advisory group, activists, talent and organisations representing priority population groups.

This role spans across our work in porn literacy, research and dissemination, knowledge translation, monitoring, and evaluation, education and resource development, supporting policy analysis across various global workstreams targeting the emerging drivers of sexual violence.

Responsibilities:

• Education & Resource Development: Inform and create all resources across Teach Us Consent’s various content streams and upskill the internal team with your research perspective and research knowledge.

• Content Support: Work closely with the communications, policy and content teams to develop strategic communication plans for research outputs, including presentations, policy briefs, op-eds and papers for peer-reviewed publications.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Responsible for developing the DEI framework, for ensuring adequate consultations, reporting to the framework and expanding priority population groups reached and measurement of co-design and impact.

• Monitoring & Evaluation: Support evaluation processes and developing key evaluation questions, ethics, and methods. Support the organisational Monitoring and Evaluation framework and research priorities for the next twelve months.

• Research & Data Management: Coordinate the development of tailored resources for young people and priority populations. Produce reports with key messages and findings for our audience. Conduct desk research, literature reviews, data collection, and manage data. Facilitate culturally safe research.

• Expert & Stakeholder Engagement: Contribute to our sustaining and expanding our network of diverse engaged experts across relevant fields to existing and new projects, and our broader portfolio of programs and policy objectives.

• Youth Advisory Group: Oversight of our two Youth Advisory Group including working with under 18s on topics related to consent and respectful relationships. Organise academic or policy events at the research-policy interface and represent the organisation publicly.

• Grant Support: Support grant applications with relevant research and cutting-edge research data, including exploring new program workstreams and linking to evidence. This extends to concept notes, project proposals and donor submissions.

What we are looking for:

Essential

• Knowledge of the GBV-field spanning sociology, gender theory, porn literacy, online-harassment and abuse or more broadly TFGBV, as well as knowledge on current research on online violence against women and girls (VAWG) related to gender-based violence,
• 1-2 years of experience working with a prevention of GBV organisation in Australia/globally (or adjacent sector) within academia, research institutions or international organisations)
• Experience with curriculum design, pedagogy and/or teaching
• Experience with research within formal education and/or in professional settings, and/or knowledge of the peer review process/or contribution to published works
• Experience conducting literature reviews
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, evaluation and developing knowledge products
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
• Strong presentation skills for diverse audiences, presentations and conferences
• Strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to juggle competing priorities

Highly desirable

• University qualification in Equality, Education, Gender and Inclusion Studies, including gender-based violence, Public Health, Psychology, Social Work, Cybercrime, Gender or related fields
• Experience working with organisations representing diverse priority population groups including LGBTQIA+, CALD, rural and remote, young people with disability, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
• Policy analysis experience
• Experience engaging diverse young people including those with lived experience

Organisation: Teach Us Consent Global Limited, registered in Australia with the ACNC as a Harm Prevention Charity.

Term: July or August 2026 on a 12-month fixed term full-time contract with the possibility of an extension.

Location: Australia. Fully remote role, and offering hybrid options, with a preference for those who can travel and work in Sydney or Melbourne.

Reports to: Head of Research and Evaluation.

Work Authorisation: Must have the right to work in Australia.

Compensation & Benefits:

Salary:

• $87,000 AUD gross

Paid Leave:

• 20 days of annual leave
• 10 days of personal/sick/carers leave
• 2 days of paid wellbeing leave
• Unpaid leave

Other Benefits:

• Sector-specific competitive compensation above SCHADS Award, and annual indexation of salary
• Fully remote work with hybrid and flexible options
• Mental health allowance
• Opportunities for funded travel within Australia to attend relevant conferences and forums, and attend an annual team offsite
• Career development and promotion opportunities including mentorship, training and development
• Purpose and values-driven work making a difference to the lives of young people in Australia

As part of your employment, you will be required to undergo relevant background checks including Working with Children Checks, Reference Checks and Police Checks, along with abiding by our safeguarding policies and signing the Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding Policy.

Teach Us Consent is an equal opportunity employer that actively works to dismantle systemic barriers in hiring. We strongly encourage applications from LGBTQIA+ people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people of colour, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, neurodivergent and/or disabled, We support flexible working arrangements. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications. We value diverse experiences and we believe in potential.

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process. If you require adjustments or accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Education & Research Officer - Remote / Work from Home enquiry via EthicalJobs.