• High impact not-for-profit with great salary packaging benefits
• Meaningful work with excellent and family-friendly work-life balance
• Office located in Glebe, NSW (with flexible work arrangements available)
• Full time role – 2 year contract
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identified position

About the Sax Institute

The Sax Institute is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that improves health and wellbeing by driving better use of evidence in policies, programs and services.

The Sax Institute has an international reputation as an Evidence Specialist, and nearly 20 years’ experience in translating research findings into policy drawing on our own expertise as well as that of our more than 50 member organisations. We work with governments, health organisations, research organisations and a network of experts nationwide to analyse policy problems and find the best evidence-based solutions.

Our office is based in Glebe, however, we offer great flexible and remote working arrangements (we come to the office for a purpose – to connect and to collaborate – with flexibility to choose your location of work outside these times). Our staff employee engagement survey showed our staff are proud to work here at the Institute and would recommend it as a great place to work – so read on and see how you can join the team!

About the role

The Sax Institute is deeply committed to advancing the health and wellbeing of First Nations peoples and has a proud history of collaborating with the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHSs) sector and other key stakeholders in research, evaluation and policy.

A great opportunity exists for a quantitative focused Research Fellow to join our Aboriginal Health team. This role will be pivotal in the development of a future strategy for the Aboriginal Health Division at the Sax Institute, contributing ideas and innovative approaches. Our new employee will play a key role in co-ordinating the design, collection and analysis of quantitative data for Aboriginal health research and evaluation.

As we work with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACHHSs) across NSW this role may require some travel to regional and remote centres.

This role will suit someone who wants to combine their strong research skills, excellent communication skills and innovative perspective to ensuring Aboriginal culture is incorporated into the research conducted.

Although no two days will be the same, responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Aboriginal Health division through operational requirements (coordinating and leading meetings etc)
• Leading and supporting the preparation of research funding proposals
• Drafting study protocols, tools and methods for evaluation design
• Coordinating and conducting quantitative data collection and analysis
• Preparing data summaries for partners
• Drafting papers and presentations to share findings

About You

Our new Research Fellow will be able to show the following skills and experience:

• Aboriginality is a genuine occupational requirement of this position
• A PhD in epidemiology, population health, health services research or related field or relevant Master’s degree
• Strong understanding and experience in Aboriginal health research and policy
• Excellent organisational skills and experience in managing projects, with a demonstrated capacity to manage complexities and diverse stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to contribute ideas and innovations, develop and implement initiatives
• Demonstrated experience with writing research protocols, reports, findings briefs, ethics applications and/or academic manuscripts and grant applications
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to work as part of a team, and build successful working relationships with a variety of people and to deliver on commitments

Further details

A position description is attached.

Please contact Scott Winch at [email protected] using the subject line: Research Fellow - Aboriginal Health enquiry via EthicalJobs if you have further questions about the role.

The Sax Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer.