- Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT | Brisbane, QLD | Adelaide, SA | Perth, WA
- $120,636 - $133,328 + 15.4% superannuation
About the Department of Education
We contribute to Australia's economic prosperity and social wellbeing by creating opportunities and driving better outcomes through access to quality education and learning.
The Role
As an Assistant Director (EL1) in the Measurement & Evaluation team, you will lead a team to help measure and evaluate the efficacy and impact of Australian Education policy and programs.
The Measurement and Evaluation team partners with the department’s policy, program and data areas. We ensure the department has the information it needs, and can apply it effectively, to understand and improve education policy in Australia.
Measurement and Evaluation has a dynamic and varied work program, supporting all of the department’s major policy areas. The team develops customised measurement and evaluation solutions across a range of scales, time horizons, and pathways to impact.
Duties and Responsibilities
In this role, you will be responsible for the following:
- Designing and planning evaluation, working closely with policy areas to undertake evaluation processes and implement recommendations.
- Providing expert advice on the design of education assessments, surveys and other data collection instruments to ensure or evaluate their validity, reliability and relevance.
- Analysing integrated and custom datasets to evaluate the impact of policies and programs, including administrative data, surveys, benchmarking and financial data.
- Developing toolkits, training and other resources to increase the department’s measurement and evaluation capability.
- Designing and implementing strategic projects to consolidate findings, enhance measurement and evaluation capability across the department and communicate effectively to senior executives.
- Leading and managing a team of junior staff to deliver these functions.
Qualifications and Education
Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field are highly desirable for this position, preferably in a field that regularly conducts quantitative causal inference (e.g. randomised trials or quasi-experimental designs).
This may include psychology, behavioural science, epidemiology, public health, econometrics, biostatistics, data science, or other fields including research and quantitative analysis methods.
How to Apply
To apply for this position, please submit your application in our online recruitment system. You will need to:
- Provide a summary (no more than 750 words) that outlines your skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.
- Upload your Resume
- Provide contact details for 2 Referees.
The APS work level standards are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level. We encourage you to review these when writing your application.
Eligibility
Citizenship - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.
Security Clearance - our successful candidate is required to hold, or have the ability to obtain, and maintain a Baseline security clearance.
Please refer to the
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