Company

For more than 20 years, people in Australia have placed their trust in Beyond Blue as a reliable source of mental health information, support, and hope.

We are one of Australia’s most well-known, trusted, and visited mental health organisations. We never take this for granted. With it comes a deep responsibility to listen, to understand people’s needs and aspirations, and to ensure they are at the heart of everything we do.

We are a big blue door for many in the community: a safe and reliable place for millions of people to access information, advice and support – whether they’re well and want to stay that way, unsettled or struggling and need support, or in recovery and want to reconnect.

Be You

Delivered by Beyond Blue, in collaboration with Early Childhood Australia and headspace, Be You is Australia’s national mental health in education initiative. It equips educators with knowledge, tools and resources to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people from birth to 18 years.

Be You empowers every early learning service and school in Australia to be their most mentally healthy, positive and inclusive in ways that work for them, at a time that works for them, and all free of charge.

Be You’s vision is for all learning communities to be positive, inclusive and responsive - a place where every child, young person, educator and family is empowered to achieve their best possible mental health and wellbeing.

About this Position

The Evidence and Impact Adviser, Be You, sits within the Be You Evidence and Impact Team. This role will focus on supporting reporting and monitoring requirements, and translating research, knowledge and insights internally to inform our products and services, and policy and advocacy positions and more broadly to share and support change across the system. The position will also support accountability and measurement of impact through advising on both internal and independent evaluations.

About you

To be successful in the role, the ideal candidate would have:

• Tertiary qualification in public health, health promotion, social sciences, research or a related discipline
• Strong understanding of evaluation and research theories and methods including an understanding of innovative approaches such as developmental evaluation, realist evaluation, implementation science, and outcome measurement for learning and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated experience in the design, commissioning, conducting, and managing of research and evaluation projects.
• Experience in monitoring and reporting, including data extraction, quality assurance and developing reporting communication plans.
• Demonstrated experience undertaking research ideally with quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability to source and synthesise evidence and establish strategies and processes to ensure the translation of evidence into product and service design and implementation, and program and policy activities.
• Experience in agile ways of working is highly desirable.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively negotiate complex projects with multiple stakeholders that hold different perspectives.
• Ability to identify and contribute to continuous improvement of team activities, processes and ways of working.

Culture and Values

Our values are the unseen drivers of our behaviours and ultimately become the organisational culture, which include:

• We're Focused
• We're Brave
• We Rise
• Together

At Beyond Blue, we are committed to fostering and preserving a workplace that values diversity and inclusion. We aim to grow and thrive as a diverse team with individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, and talents. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, ability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

How to Apply

To apply, applications should include a current CV with a cover letter that addresses why you would consider yourself to be a cultural addition to Beyond Blue and how your qualifications, skills and experience would be attributes to the position. For detailed information about this position including the closing date, please refer to the position description on our careers page.

Preferred candidates will be required to undertake pre-employment screening, including a National Police Check and where required a Working with Children Check.

We encourage early applications as interviews may commence before the closing date. All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.

A position description is attached.