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Principal Project Officer (Monitoring and Evaluation)
400 George Street, Brisbane
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 undertaking 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.
Job details
| Position status | Fixed Term Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Flexible full-time |
| Occupational group | Administration |
| Classification | AO7 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane Inner City |
| Job ad reference | QLD/QRA644401 |
| Closing date | 07-Jul-2025 |
| Job duration | Up to 11 months |
| Contact person | Matt Pfingst |
| Contact details | 07 3740 1998 Access the National Relay Service |
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
- Manage a variety of evaluation projects from design through to final reporting.
- 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.
- Develop key documents and practices to support quality and responsible procurement of evaluation suppliers.
- Manage strategic medium to high risk procurement projects for evaluation projects and ensure positive outcomes to meet client and stakeholder objectives.
- Provide high level advice relating to procurement and contract management matters to facilitate procurement planning and ensure adherence to procurement policy and departmental objectives are achieved.
- Assist in the preparation of reports, submissions, briefs and other correspondence relating to procurement contract matters in accordance with department requirements.
- Provide expert guidance and advice to internal and external stakeholders on monitoring and evaluation objectives and practices.
- High-caliber stakeholder management experience, fostering trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders, contractors, and service providers.
- Ensure team outputs satisfy QRA standards for accuracy and timeliness based on quality principles and methodologies.
- Represent QRA's position in meetings, committees, and cross agency forums at state and national level, drawing on organisational expertise and evaluation experience.
- Design and implement processes to continuously improve QRA's evaluation practice (including templates, guidance materials and project reviews).
- Undertake related project and other duties of equivalent complexity as required.
- This role reports to the Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation.
QRA's workforce is agile and ready to respond quickly to support disaster priorities. You may have the opportunity to undertake other temporary duties or work in alternative locations to support impacted communities.
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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Further information
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