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.

About the role

Within the Prevention In Action (PIA) directorate, the Prevention Quality, Support and Reach (PQSR) team supports and enables high quality, streamlined and efficient service delivery of the Prevention Implementation (PI) and Prevention Sector Engagement (PSE) teams. PQSR is a smart, collaborative and multi-disciplinary team that is responsible for ensuring the other teams have the tools and capabilities to deliver internal and external facing activities. It does this by supporting implementation planning and resource management, quality assurance and learning, digital capacity to support delivery, PIA practice development, marketing and communications support, and leads the directorate’s approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning, including delivering on reporting and grant requirements. It is a point of coordination with the other Our Watch directorates.

PQSR has a broad range of expertise including prevention content, quality and learning, evaluation and monitoring, and setting up standardised approaches and systems to support a dynamic portfolio of work. PQSR leads on PIA’s interim fee-for-service work and may be responsible for ongoing business development, post the establishment of the Our Watch Institute. PQSR leads on the implementation and development of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Framework.

The PIA MEL Framework is central to PIA’s work. This Framework guides monitoring and evaluation of the work of PIA and learning building on these monitoring and evaluation processes. Reporting to the MEL lead, in this role you will be supporting the implementation and ongoing development of the MEL Framework.

About you

This role will require developing a sustainable MEL practice within PIA to support valuing and using evidence. You will have experiencing implementing and/or working with a MEL Framework, and have expertise and experience in the ongoing collection, collation, monitoring and analysis of data for reporting and tracking progress against identified outcomes/process indicators. You will have the capability to coordinate and use appropriate and feasible data collection and analysis methods for PIA MEL requirements, and to communicate the analysis to varied audiences. You will have experience or an interest in gender equality and preventing violence against women.

This position will work collaboratively with PQSR colleagues and develop and nurture effective relationships across the organisation as required, to support work on and continuous improvement of key organisational and directorate strategic and operational plans.

Why work for us

Our Watch is strongly committed to the wellbeing of its employees. We work to continuously improve the policies and processes that ensure an engaging, safe and inclusive environment for the people who work here. Some of the benefits of working with Our Watch are:

• Commitment to work life balance for staff, including flexible hours/ ways of working
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities including paid professional development
• Wellbeing programs, such as our Employee Assistance Program
• Adjustable sit/stand desks
• Best practice parental leave
• Annual leave loading of 17.5%
• Innovative leave policies, such as floating public holiday leave, cultural leave and violence leave.

To apply, please go to our website to view the position description. 

Remote / Work from home options considered.

Our Watch recognises and values diversity among its staff and strongly encourages suitably qualified people from all backgrounds, especially people who have a strong understanding of intersectionality either by working with diverse population groups or a lived experience.

Our Watch is committed to increasing employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the organisation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

Our Watch encourages applications from people with disability. We want to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process and supportive workplace. If you require modifications with the application process to meet your access needs please contact us.

Applications will remain open until this role is successfully appointed.