Description
- Excellent opportunity to use your Research & Evaluation experience to make a real difference to families facing childhood cancer.
- Benefits include not-for-profit salary packaging, additional leave and discounts.
- Permanent part-time position (30 hours per week) based in Surry Hills close to public transport.
About Redkite:
When a child is diagnosed with cancer, it affects the whole family. In the daunting and unpredictable experience that follows diagnosis, a child needs as much stability and support from their family as possible. Redkite is a lifeline for families, providing real emotional, financial, and practical support.
The role:
The focus of this role is to support research, monitoring, and evaluation activities that help Redkite measure its outcomes and impact, improve the quality of its services, and drive evidence to practice. This role will also support Redkite’s advocacy and thought leadership work in the sector and coordinate research activities with families that have a lived experience of childhood cancer.
About you:
The position is ideal for a highly competent Senior Research & Evaluation Officer looking to make a meaningful difference. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the following skills & experience:
- Substantial demonstrated experience (5+ years) in designing, developing, and leading research and/or evaluation projects.
- Tertiary qualification(s) in social science, health, or other related disciplines.
- Substantial working knowledge of a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including surveys, interviews, and focus groups.
- Strong quantitative skills, including comfort with a range of statistical analysis techniques/platforms (e.g., PowerBI, SPSS, Qualtrics), and capacity to transfer knowledge and expertise.
- Skills and experience in using a range of outcomes and impact measurement approaches and techniques.
- Ability to develop and oversee research to identify practice and service development needs.
- Experience in managing research or evaluation projects involving external partners and/or consultants.
- Ability to commission and oversee critical, systematic, and rapid reviews of relevant information, including academic research, grey literature, practice, and policy documents, and the synthesis of those reviews.
- Demonstrated ability to develop strategic, productive, and constructive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience presenting research and evaluation findings in a range of forums, including conferences, board and executive meetings, practice meetings, and training events.
To Apply:
If you’re keen to join a compassionate and collaborative team making a real difference, apply now. It’s helpful to attach a cover letter telling us why you’d make a great fit.
For a confidential discussion about the opportunity, please call Vanessa on 02 9219 4074.
We’ll be checking applications as they come in, so don’t delay.
Applicants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds or who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander are warmly encouraged to apply.
Redkite is committed to child safety. We follow clear and transparent recruitment practices which include references, interviews, psychometric testing, and Working with Children & National Police Checks relevant to the state in which staff will be employed. At every stage of the recruitment process, we undertake thorough screening to ensure that anyone that joins the team aligns with our values and our commitment to child safety.
Redkite acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work, and we pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging.
Redkite is committed to ongoing learning about the individual needs of our families. We strive to create a respectful and inclusive space for people of all cultures and identities.
Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
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