• Safe and Equal are seeking an Evidence and Data Lead
• Exciting opportunity to take a lead role in establishing a new, multi-year sense-making, research and data program
• Be part of meaningful efforts to centre voices that are often left out of what’s considered relevant as ‘evidence’, in sharing and co-creating knowledge that will drive transformative change
• Generous salary packaging (total of up to $18,550), as well as above award pay and conditions under Safe and Equal’s Enterprise Agreement
• Work for an organisation committed to access and inclusion, with Rainbow Tick accreditation
• Annual salary: $122,053 plus superannuation, $61.77 per hour
• Location: Flexible, seeking candidates based in Victoria, South Australia or the Northern Territory, for hybrid remote and office-based work

The Role

To address domestic and family violence, we need to be able to measure it.

Be part of a new program, being established across three jurisdictions to develop a better understanding of victim survivors’ met and unmet support needs, with the goal of improving the specialist sector and broader system’s capacity to meet those needs and, ultimately, increasing people’s safety.

Delivered over three years, the program includes three critical, interconnected streams of activity:

• Understanding the reality of service delivery contexts – listening, mapping, and documenting approaches to specialist domestic and family violence service provision across jurisdictions
• Extracting and analysing existing datasets – uncovering what these can tell us about service accessibility and effectiveness, as well as some of the gaps and disconnections that exist
• Collective sense-making – drawing together analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data collated, through partnering with service providers and service users to test, refine and contextualise findings and recommendations.

As a senior position within a small, geographically dispersed team, the Evidence and Data Lead will be responsible for designing and conducting evidence building and sense-making activity, including engaging custodians and analysts to extract and analyse existing administrative datasets.

In this position, your responsibilities will include:

• Research design and delivery – conceiving, designing and implementing ethical, safe and culturally responsive approaches, methods and tools to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data
• Consultation and engagement – contributing to the design and implementation of approaches to collaborative knowledge production, sense-making and evidence translation
• Project management – supporting overall program delivery
• Leadership – supporting the program’s Director as a senior team member and ‘second in charge’.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• At least five years’ relevant professional experience, including having worked in social research, monitoring and evaluation or another data-focused field
• Experience delivering complex projects
• Highly developed interpersonal, relational and collaboration skills
• Excellent written communication and knowledge translation skills.

You might not have worked within the specialist domestic and family violence sector, but you will be able to demonstrate your capacity to work safely and respectfully in this space, including sensitivity to the subject matter and some awareness of policy and practice principles.

For more information about the responsibilities and expectations for the role, download the position description.

Organisational context

The DFV measurement program is a partnership between the DFV sectors across three jurisdictions, with a program delivery team employed by Safe and Equal.

Safe and Equal is the peak body for Victorian organisations that specialise in family and gender-based violence across the continuum, including primary prevention, early intervention, response and recovery. Our vision is a world where everyone is safe, respected and thriving, living free from family and gender-based violence.

Depending on where individual team members are based, they may share office space with Embolden in South Australia, NTCOSS in the Northern Territory, Safe and Equal in Victoria, or with other local DFV organisations.

At Safe and Equal, we are committed to creating an inclusive organisation. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to work with us, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people of colour and people from migrant and refuge communities; people of any age or gender; lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex or queer people; people with lived experience of family violence; and people with disability. We also consider applicants regardless of contact with the justice system and experiences of criminalisation, consistent with our legal requirements.

We are committed to fostering a work environment where everybody can bring their whole self, belong and succeed. We are a proud Equal Opportunity employer and do not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment. We celebrate and support difference and know that one size doesn’t fit all – we endeavour to be flexible, meet your needs, and support you at every stage of your contact with us.

Safe and Equal offers employees a monthly RDO option, individual annual professional development budget, generous leave benefits including (but not limited to) end of year shutdown leave, gender affirmation leave, family violence leave and cultural and ceremonial leave, and access to an employee assistance program.

next steps

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If you have questions about this position, contact Louise Simms, National Program Director: [email protected] using the subject line: Evidence and Data Lead - Flexible Location enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We know that people from under-represented groups don’t always apply for roles they don’t feel 100% qualified for. If you think you could be the right fit but you don’t meet all the criteria, get in touch. This advertisement is the starting point for a conversation and we’re keen to hear from people who are interested in working on this exciting new program.

A position description is attached.