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. We encourage applicants to visit our website and learn about the essential actions needed to prevent violence against women. https://www.ourwatch.org.au/. To follow the ongoing conversation about preventing family violence against women please like our Facebook, Instagram, twitter or LinkedIn pages.

About the role

• Full time (part time options considered)
• Fixed term to June 2027
• $84,400-$87,146 plus 11% superannuation and 17.5% annual leave loading

This role plays a key part in ensuring effective identification, analysis, and use of the most up-to-date population-level data across Our Watch’s work, as well as building internal and external capacity to understand and use this data. It will also support the implementation of processes and systems to evaluate Our Watch’s progress towards its vision of an Australia where women and their children live free from all forms of violence.

About you

The successful candidate will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in social or political science, public policy, public health, gender studies, evaluation or other area of relevance, or equivalent experience.
• An understanding of major Australian data sets relating to violence against women (including the Personal Safety Survey and National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey).
• Experience working with outcome frameworks,
• Expertise in collation and analysis of population-level data and tracking progress against identified indicators.
• Project management skills, and an ability to balance planned work with unexpected and urgent tasks
• Ability to work, collaborate and consult with a diverse range of stakeholders
• Experience in producing high-quality written materials, including reports and briefs.

Why work for us

Our Watch is strongly committed to the wellbeing of its employees, and we strive to continuously improve our employee experiences at work. Our Watch was recently recognised at the 2023 Australian HR Awards for the Best Workplace Flexibility Program and receiving an Excellence Award as an Employer of Choice in the Not-for-Profit Sector. Our Watch has also recently been announced as an Inclusive Employer by Diversity Council Australia.

For the full list of our award-winning employee benefits, please view the 'Work with us' page on our website https://www.ourwatch.org.au/about-us/work-with-us/.

A few of our unique award-winning benefits include:

• Commitment to work life balance for staff, including flexible hours/ ways of working and 5 additional personal leave days per year.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents.
• Innovative leave policies, such as floating public holiday leave, cultural leave
• Cultural remuneration package for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff

How to Apply

To apply, please click on the Apply Now button and upload your current resume and cover letter for consideration. Please note, applications with a cover letter will be prioritised.

Hybrid, remote and work from home options considered within Australia only.

To access a copy of the position description please click here.

Our Watch is committed to diversity, we value people of all cultures, languages, capacities, sexual orientations, gender identities and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our Watch is proud to offer Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander staff an additional remuneration package in recognition of the cultural load they carry and ongoing impacts of colonisation.
We are passionate about providing a barrier-free recruitment process, if you require modifications during the application process to meet your access needs, please contact us.

Applications will be assessed as received.