Evaluation Officer

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?

• Utilise your type of expertise expertise to provide support and advice to key stakeholders.
• Fixed term Opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
• VPS Grade 4: $97,955 - $111,142 plus superannuation.

• Provide specialist advice and support the development of mixed-methods evaluation projects to ensure outputs are delivered in a timely manner.
• Develop high-quality written evaluation outputs, including evaluation frameworks, ethics applications, quantitative and qualitative data collection instruments, and quality evaluation reports.

• Demonstrated experience in the delivery of research and evaluation projects involving both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
• Demonstrated experience in the design of quantitative and qualitative data collection instrum ents, evaluation frameworks, ethics applications and program logic approaches.
• Demonstrated experience in the preparation of high-quality research and evaluation reports.
• Statistical analysis skills, including both descriptive and inferential methods.
• Experience in the use of statistical software to analyse quantitative data (e.g., Excel or SPSS).
• Experience in thematic analysis of qualitative data and in the development of case studies.

• A current Working with Children Check (Employee) is required.
• Qualifications with a strong focus on evaluation, social science research and/or criminology are desirable.

• For this particular vacancy, priority consideration applies to Victorian Public Service (VPS) and select employees of the Victorian Public Sector who apply through the Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) jobs board platform.
• For all VPS employees, due to the new Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) policy, please apply through the JSE to be eligible to be considered for this position in the first round.

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