Senior Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Respect Victoria; Melbourne; Vor Ort; AUD 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Respect Victoria is seeking a Senior Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) to lead priority MEL initiatives and develop strategic monitoring structures within Victoria's primary prevention of family violence and violence against women. The role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders to build an evidence base and strengthen MEL systems across programs.

The successful candidate will focus on place-based evaluation, measurement infrastructure, and community engagement to support

Qualifikationen

• Experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for public health or prevention programs.
• Ability to translate strategies into programs and define governance and success measures.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and co-creation skills.

Aufgaben

• Develop, coordinate and implement MEL systems for capturing data.
• Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders for partnership-based evaluation.
• Coordinate data collection, monitor risks and report trends.

Kenntnisse

Stakeholder collaboration

MEL systems design

Data analysis

Ausbildung

Evaluation / Public health background

Gender equality knowledge

Public health / health promotion

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Senior Advisor,Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (VPSG 5), Commencing in January 2027

Respect Victoria (RV) is a Statutory Authority under the Prevention of Family Violence Act 2018. We focus on the primary prevention of family violence and violence against women in Victoria and collaboratively work with stakeholders to provide state-wide leadership to create social, institutional, organisational and community change. RV recognises strength in diversity and values an inclusive workplace and are committed to providing flexible and accessible working arrangements for all. We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with a disability, culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse people, young people, older people, women and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and gender diverse, intersex, queer or asexual people.

The role

The Senior Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) will lead priority MEL initiatives and support the development of strategic monitoring and evaluation structures and systems, governance and partnership activity for Respect Victoria, to enable a world-leading evidence base for effective primary prevention of family violence and violence against women. This role builds and strengthens internal and external MEL structures and systems through collaboration with stakeholders and reference to leading practice and evidence. This role has a particular focus on place-based evaluation, leading measurement infrastructure and community engagement.

Are you

• Excited to collaborate with stakeholders to build and grow MEL systems that support evidence gathering?
• Invested in data generation and knowledge building to lead a learning culture in primary prevention?

Key Accountabilities

• Develop, co-ordinate and implement MEL systems for capturing internal and state-wide data
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders to facilitate a partnership approach to relevant system building and evaluation efforts and the translation and communication of evidence-based evaluation and data
• Develop and coordinate data collection and collation and monitor and report on high priority issues, risks and trends.

Key Selection Criteria

Values: Alignment with the values of RV and the VPS
Role and organisational alignment: Relevant work experience and/or education in evaluation, health promotion, public health, gender equality, or other relevant field; understanding and working knowledge of key prevention frameworks, for example Change the Story
Project delivery: Translates strategies into programs or projects that enables achievement of outcomes; Defines governance e.g. success measures, roles and responsibilities, progress monitoring required to manage risks and maximise probability of success
Partnering and co-creation: Builds and maintains partnerships to achieve objectives; Coaches others on the co-creation process and builds team commitment to co-creation by demonstrating personal commitment; Builds trust in partnerships through timely and quality delivery of outcomes; Facilitates discussion and navigates differences of opinion to reach decisions
Critical thinking and problem solving: Considers wider business context within business unit when considering options to resolve issues. Identifies recurring problems and prevents future recurrence by integrating solutions into work process.