Senior Advisor

What’s in it for you:

Are you looking for a new challenge and want to join a successful and growing organisation dedicated to creating lasting and effective social change? Do you have a passion for evaluation, evidence, and advancing implementation science? If so, we want to hear from you.

• Join a growing organisation and work with a dynamic international team, located in Australia, Singapore, and London
• A career that is purpose driven and flexible in a supportive, agile, and positive environment
• Excellent working conditions, including an additional week of company leave time
• Competitive salary reflective of skills and experience, salary packaging available
• 2-year contract

The Role

Based out of our Sydney office the Senior Advisor will work closely with the Director, the primary role of the Senior Advisor is to lead or manage a portfolio of CEI projects across a range of key CEI strategic activities, including evaluation, applying evidence in service development and improvement, evidence synthesis, and advancing implementation science. The Senior Advisor will also contribute to new business development and the strategic development of our CEI team. As a global organisation there will be at times an expectation that work and meetings will be conducted outside regular business hours.

Key Accountabilities

CEI provides government, service sector and philanthropic decision-makers with rigorous data analysis and feasible solutions to support them in improving the lives of children, families and communities facing adversity. The Senior Advisor will lead and support integrated, hybrid design, multicomponent research that provides a deep understanding of the adverse conditions affecting children, families and communities in partnership with government agencies, local service providers, and people with lived experience. This includes partnering with implementation practice colleagues on conceptual and practical approaches to measuring implementation outcomes and using measurement to inform continuous quality improvement processes.

Key areas of accountability are outlined below. Other duties will be performed as required.

Research and evaluation methods leadership

• Manage the design, planning and delivery of projects, primarily high-quality evaluations, the synthesis of evidence and the application of evidence in service development and improvement, informed by and advancing implementation science. This includes:
• Design studies and projects, ensuring the most rigorous methods possible are applied
• Ensure a deep understanding of objectives and critical issues
• Manage project governance, team work plan and budgets
• Follow research and evaluation quality control processes and CEI’s project quality control processes
• Work effectively with other team members, support their development, and build your own and their understanding of methods and substantive areas critical to our work
• Build strong relationships with clients, collaborators and other project key stakeholders
• Ensure that project deliverables are produced on time and to a very high quality

Business development and strategic growth

• Contribute to the development and implementation of plans to grow the Centre’s business and strategic competitiveness and ensure continuous improvement in our work
• Develop new competitive tenders, proposals and funding applications and secure new business
• Build and manage stakeholder relationships, including with current and new collaborating organisations, clients and other funders, networking to raise our profile and being an external representative of CEI and its work
• Contribute to CEI’s thought leadership and knowledge exchange in implementation science and related topic areas

Required Competencies

Position:

•  Knowledge of and a commitment to the work of CEI
• Strong sense of social justice, professional ethics and commitment to evidence-based practice
• Demonstrated ability to show initiative and find creative approaches
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including problem resolution, and a collaborative approach to multi-disciplinary teamwork
• Ability to work in a positive and empowering way with colleagues, collaborators and stakeholders
• Strong project management skills, ability to establish priorities, set and meet deadlines, and manage budgets
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• A willingness to work in a fast-paced environment flexibly and adaptably

Personal:

• A high level of integrity and professionalism
• Commitment to the ongoing development of a strong organisational culture
• Motivation, energy and resilience
• Willingness to help to build a learning environment

Diversity and Inclusion at CEI

We are committed to improving outcomes for communities who are facing adversity through leveraging the best available evidence. We value diversity and inclusion. We actively seek and welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and with lived experience of the social issues our work addresses and in the communities we aim to serve. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.