About Our Watch

Our Watch is a national leader of primary prevention of violence against women and their children. Our vision is an Australia where women and their children live free from all forms of violence. Our role is to stop violence before it starts. We work to embed gender equality and prevent violence where Australians live, learn, work and socialise. We encourage applicants to visit our website and learn about the essential actions needed to prevent violence against women. www.ourwatch.org.au/. To follow the ongoing conversation about preventing family violence against women please like our Facebook, Instagram, twitter or LinkedIn pages.

About the role

• Hybrid and remote working arrangements available
• Full time (part time options considered)
• Ongoing role
• $125,256 - $133,798 + 11.5% super + 17.5% annual leave loading

Working within the Innovation Directorate, the Manager, Design Impact and Evaluation role is responsible for leading our approach to impact and evaluation across the Directorate and supporting ethics, data collection, reporting and evaluation, activities for DSS funding, across Directorates. The successful candidate will have demonstrated skills and experience in building, leading and managing teams while delivering on complex projects. This role will ensure we are building the evidence around Primary Prevention to accelerate Our Watch towards our long-term vision of stopping violence before it starts.

About you

You will be a positive, proactive, experienced leader that is ready to jump into a new challenge as Our Watch moves through its next phase of evaluation. This role requires balancing a ‘birds-eye-view’ on moving pieces of work and ensuring strategic alignment with the organisation’s strategic plan and priorities, while also diving deep into the detail and providing functional expertise to internal and external stakeholders.

• Deliver on multiple, complex evaluations, research and development projects
• Support the implementation of organisational reporting for government grants
• Oversee the delivery of evaluations and monitoring for projects and campaigns
• Provide support and capacity building role to support staff in other Directorates, specifically around evaluation design, development and delivery.
• Implement, develop and improve systems and processes that support sharing insights and learnings, and support the transfer of successful innovative projects to other Our Watch directorates so they can be adopted, implemented, and communicated at scale
• Lead the ongoing development of systems and processes to ensure Our Watch evaluations address and further strengthen primary prevention frameworks and evidence

Why work for us

Our Watch is strongly committed to the wellbeing of its employees, and we strive to continuously improve our employee experiences at work. Our Watch was recently recognised at the 2023 Australian HR Awards for the Best Workplace Flexibility Program and receiving an Excellence Award as an Employer of Choice in the Not-for-Profit Sector. Our Watch has also recently been announced as an Inclusive Employer by Diversity Council Australia. For the full list of our award winning employee benefits, please view the 'Work with us' page on our website www.ourwatch.org.au/about-us/work-with-us/.

A few of our unique award winning benefits include:

• Commitment to work life balance for staff, including flexible hours/ ways of working and 5 additional personal leave days per year.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents.
• Innovative leave policies, such as floating public holiday leave, cultural leave
• Cultural remuneration package for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff

How to Apply

To apply, please click on the Apply Now button and upload your current resume and cover letter for consideration. Providing a direct response to the key selection criteria is optional, however please ensure you demonstrate in your written application that your capabilities fulfill the requirements of this position.

Hybrid, remote and work from home options considered within Australia. To view the position description, please click here: PD-Manager-Design-Impact-and-Evaluation.pdf.

Our Watch is committed to diversity, we value people of all cultures, languages, capacities, sexual orientations, gender identities and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our Watch is proud to offer Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander staff an additional remuneration package in recognition of the cultural knowledge they carry and ongoing impacts of colonisation.
We are passionate about providing a barrier-free recruitment process, if you require modifications during the application process to meet your access needs, please contact us.

Applications will be assessed as received.