Senior Evaluation Officer (Monitoring and Evaluation)
Queensland Government
Date: 3 days ago
City: Brisbane, Queensland
Contract type: Full time

Get ready to join an outstanding organisation committed to our people and our culture through recognition, continuous learning and development, building resilience and encouraging innovation.
The Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA)'s vision is for stronger, safer, resilient Queensland communities.
An exciting opportunity exists for you to contribute to our vision by contributing to the design, data collection, analysis and reporting activities for the $5 million Monitoring and Evaluation Initiative for the 2021-22 Southern Queensland Floods.
QRA values equity and diversity and encourages applications from people with diverse backgrounds.
About The Division
The Resilience and Recovery Division provides leadership, direction and advice to agencies and stakeholders to ensure Queensland's disaster recovery and resilience policies and programs reduce risk, increase resilience and improve preparedness for disasters.
About The Team
The Policy and Program Design team are responsible for delivering actions to improve the resilience of Queensland communities and facilitate locally led disaster recovery, coordinate Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) extraordinary funding packages and resilience funding programs, and help communities prepare for and recover from disasters.
About The Role
The $2 billion exceptional circumstances packages developed in response to the 2021-22 Southern Queensland Floods represent a significant investment by the Queensland and Commonwealth Governments to support the recovery and resilience of flood-affected communities.
Under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA), there is a requirement to evaluate community recovery packages to identify what worked well, barriers and enablers to success and how better community outcomes might be achieved in response to future disaster events.
We encourage you to reach out to the contact officer to find out more about this role, what we offer and what it's like working at QRA. To find out more about the Queensland Reconstruction Authority please visit our website www.qra.qld.gov.au .
Occupational group Administration
The Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA)'s vision is for stronger, safer, resilient Queensland communities.
An exciting opportunity exists for you to contribute to our vision by contributing to the design, data collection, analysis and reporting activities for the $5 million Monitoring and Evaluation Initiative for the 2021-22 Southern Queensland Floods.
QRA values equity and diversity and encourages applications from people with diverse backgrounds.
About The Division
The Resilience and Recovery Division provides leadership, direction and advice to agencies and stakeholders to ensure Queensland's disaster recovery and resilience policies and programs reduce risk, increase resilience and improve preparedness for disasters.
About The Team
The Policy and Program Design team are responsible for delivering actions to improve the resilience of Queensland communities and facilitate locally led disaster recovery, coordinate Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) extraordinary funding packages and resilience funding programs, and help communities prepare for and recover from disasters.
About The Role
The $2 billion exceptional circumstances packages developed in response to the 2021-22 Southern Queensland Floods represent a significant investment by the Queensland and Commonwealth Governments to support the recovery and resilience of flood-affected communities.
Under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA), there is a requirement to evaluate community recovery packages to identify what worked well, barriers and enablers to success and how better community outcomes might be achieved in response to future disaster events.
- Develop logic models, evaluation and performance measurement frameworks, monitoring templates and evaluation plans, reflecting state and federal methodologies, templates and guidelines.
- Co-design data collection instruments (including surveys, questionnaires and other tools) and collect and analyse data to support evaluation planning and reporting activities.
- Co-design sustainable, fit-for-Queensland monitoring and reporting practices.
- Write quality and fit-for-purpose evaluation reports on the appropriateness, efficiency and effectiveness of Category C and D packages against their recovery and resilience objectives.
- Build and maintain collaborative and productive relationships with key stakeholders, including other federal, state, and local government agencies contributing to reconstruction, disaster recovery and resilience activities.
- Inform QRA's wise practice approach to disaster recovery and resilience, by sharing data insights, evidence and lessons learnt from evaluation reporting to inform future package design.
- Liaise with, provide advice and respond appropriately to internal and external stakeholder queries on monitoring and evaluation objectives and practices.
- Represent QRA's position in meetings, committees, and cross agency forums at state and national level, drawing on organisational expertise and evaluation experience.
- Engage in internal evaluation capability building and improvement practices (including undertaking reviews and maintaining templates and guidance materials).
- Undertake related project work and other duties of equivalent complexity as required.
- This role reports to the Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation.
We encourage you to reach out to the contact officer to find out more about this role, what we offer and what it's like working at QRA. To find out more about the Queensland Reconstruction Authority please visit our website www.qra.qld.gov.au .
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Occupational group Administration
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