Position Description:

Lead the research and evaluation functions of a growing NFP focused on eradicating normalised youth-on-youth sexual violence. Contribute your subject matter expertise to Teach Us Consent’s program, policy, and research agenda by engaging with experts and researchers, civil society, activists, talent and organisations representing priority population groups. This leadership role involves project management across our work in porn literacy, research and dissemination, knowledge translation, monitoring, and evaluation, education and resource development, building and informing the evidence-base of our work, supporting policy analysis across various work-streams targeting the emerging drivers of sexual violence.

Organisation:

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

• Term: June or July 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 including in-person opportunities in Sydney and Melbourne.
• Reports to: General Manager
• Work Authorisation: Must have the right to work in Australia.

Compensation & Benefits:

Salary:

• $117,000-$130,000 AUD gross salary (salary dependent on experience)

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

Job Overview:

Teach Us Consent Global is seeking a proactive, motivated and academically rigorous Head of Research and Evaluation to join our team and lead the research and evaluation functions on existing and new, including government funded, work on the prevention of youth-on-youth gender based-violence. This senior role will be responsible for leading program design, evaluation, expert and stakeholder engagement, education and resource development. They will also support policy analysis and additional global pieces of research and education, enabling the organisation’s growth through robust evidence-backed impact.

Responsibilities:

• Program Design: Lead the development of an evidence-based program design for a new government funded project focused on porn literacy. Contribute our organisation’s voice to emerging issues in the prevention of gender-based violence as outlined in our theory of change and translate them into actionable research initiatives and policy briefs.
• Monitoring & Evaluation: Build a strong relationship with independent evaluators and design robust evaluation mechanism, alongside developing key evaluation questions, ethics, and methods. Develop 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 Engagement: Build and maintain a network of diverse engaged experts across relevant fields to existing and new projects, and our broader portfolio of programs and policy objectives.

• Stakeholder Management: Engage with senior leaders of Teach Us Consent and provide research reports and summaries on emerging issues. Engage with external partners and build new partnerships with academic institutions, governments and international organisations. Organise academic or policy events at the research-policy interface and represent the organisation publicly. Engagement with the Youth Advisory Group where appropriate.
• Education & Resource Development: Inform all resources across Teach Us Consent’s various content streams and up-skill the internal team with your research perspective and research knowledge.

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

• Staff Management: This role will require managing staff across research functions and diversity, equity and inclusion. It may also involve overseeing/supporting interns conducting research for the organisation globally. There is an opportunity to grow this role and team.

• 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

• PhD in Equality, Education, Gender and Inclusion Studies, including gender-based violence, Public Health, Psychology, Social Work, Cybercrime, Gender, or related fields
• Knowledge of the GBV-field spanning sociology, gender theory, online-harassment and abuse as well as knowledge on current research on online violence against women and girls (VAWG) related to gender-based violence, and may also include porn literacy
• Proven experience in peer-review process and proven published work
• 2-4+ years of experience working with a prevention of GBV organisation in Australia/globally (or adjacent sector) with progressive management responsibility in within academia, research institutions or international organisations, including supervisory responsibilities
• 2+ years’ experience managing others
• Experience in contract and research consultancies
• Proven experience designing and implementing research projects
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, evaluation and developing knowledge products
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
• Ability to lead a research portfolio
• Strong presentation skills for diverse audiences, presentations and conferences
• Strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to juggle competing priorities

Highly desirable

• 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
• Experience with curriculum design, pedagogy and/or teaching

next steps

To submit your application, please click 'Apply Now' by 17:00 on the closing date.

This role will be assessed on a rolling-basis and may close at any time. This role will close by the advertised closing date listed on Ethical Jobs and our Website. No extensions are permitted for fairness of candidates.

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: Head of Research and Evaluation - Remote / Work From Home enquiry via EthicalJobs.