Survey and Insights Manager

International Women's Development Agency

Location Melbourne or remotely - based in timezone +/- 3 AEST
Salary SCHADS 6 plus superannuation and salary packaging
Team Systemic Change & Partnerships
  • Closing: 11:59pm, 5th Jun 2022 AEST

Job Description

  • Full-time permanent role

  • Based in Melbourne or remotely - in timezone +/- 3 AEST

  • Play a vital role in data processing, analysis, publication, dissemination and uptake.

ABOUT IWDA

IWDA is an Australian-based organisation, resourcing diverse women’s rights organisations, primarily in Asia and the Pacific, and contributing to global feminist movements to advance our vision of gender equality for all.

VISION: Gender equality for all

PURPOSE: To defend and advance the rights of diverse women and girls

VALUES: Feminist, Accountable, Collaborative, Transformative

OUR GOALS 2020-2023:

1.      Resource and contribute to a resilient and vibrant feminist movement

2.      Promote systemic change towards gender equality for all

3.      Build a resilient and relevant feminist organisation

IWDA works in partnership with gender equality focused organisations in Asia and the Pacific; with international women’s movement coalitions; and with government and academic institutions in Australia to address the practical and structural barriers to gender equality. IWDA’s partnership work seeks to achieve transformational systemic change in order to realise our vision of gender equality for all.

As part of this contribution, we take actions to decolonise our approach to feminism and development. We want to become the best we can be in the world at north-south partnerships.  This means we seek to understand and leverage our locational power so that we know when to:

STEP UP: and use our power to leverage resources and access for women’s rights organisations, and make our own contribution to feminist movements

STAND WITH: feminist movements in solidarity and amplify the work of global south actors

STEP BACK: when others are better placed to take the lead.

ABOUT EQUALITY INSIGHTS

Equality Insights is a flagship program of IWDA that aims to redefine how poverty is understood and measured and inspire wider change, in measurement standards and approaches and in gender equality outcomes. Built on more than 14 years’ of research and refinement, Equality Insights provides a conceptual framework, methodology and associated survey to enable individual-level, gender-sensitive measurement of multidimensional poverty and inequality. The survey asks concrete questions about 15 dimensions of life plus assets to better understand how poverty is experienced by individuals. The result is an evidence base of (otherwise invisible) insights to inspire and enable targeted and transformative change.

In 2021, IWDA commenced a program of work, supported by the Australian Government, to improve the gender equality outcomes of COVID-19 recovery in the Pacific through increasing the availability of data that makes the specific circumstances of women visible, and supporting that data to be used for gender-responsive planning, programming, advocacy and resource allocations. In the first year, the focus of the program was the development of a new Equality Insights survey variant Equality Insights Rapid, that is brief and can be implemented without face-to-face enumeration.

The current program, which concludes at the end of December 2022, is organised around four action areas:

1.     Improved evidence base for implementing COVID-19 recovery that advances gender equality in selected Pacific countries

2.     Decision-makers and change agents can access and are using Equality Insights Rapid data

3.     Policy, programming, advocacy and/or resource allocations for COVID recovery is informed by Equality Insights Rapid data in at least two countries

4.     Regional actors recognise and use Equality Insights data and/or tools

ABOUT THE ROLE

The successful candidate in this recruitment will join the program at a time when data collection in two countries—Solomon Islands and Tonga—are nearing completion. Though the role has cyclical elements across the data value chain (from data production to uptake, use and impact) the first six months of the role will be focused on data processing, publication, dissemination and uptake.  

ACTION AREA 1: between commencement and the end of 2022, the Survey and Insights Manager will:

  • Support the Statistics and Analysis Lead in all elements of data processing to prepare the data sets for analysis and reporting.

  • Support data analysis, including finalisation of the analysis plan and developing scripts.

  • Lead interpretation of data and report writing within the team, collaborating across the team and with in-country stakeholders from Solomon Islands and Tonga as appropriate.

  • Lead on visualising the data in a clear manner to increase communicability of findings.

This role will also proactively identify and contribute to opportunities to improve global recognition of the contribution of Equality Insights Rapid to gender-sensitive measurement of multidimensional poverty and inequality, through general public communications and submissions to peer-reviewed journals.

In different phases of the project cycle (ie beyond the next six months) the Survey and Insights Manager will play a lead role in data collection set up and implementation.

ACTION AREA 2: between commencement and the end of 2022, the Survey and Insights Manager will:

  • Act as the main liaison person between the program and the technology provider (already under contract) to lead the finalisation of the online data access platform. Support on technical elements of finalisation will be provided by the Statistics and Analysis Lead. Administrative and contract support will come from the Senior Program Manager and Research Coordinator.  

  • Identify opportunities to integrate use of the data access platform into capacity development resources and learning programs.

ACTION AREA 3: between commencement and the end of 2022, the Data Use Manager will provide input to support the development of specific capacity building modules at the request of the Special Advisor. This may include identifying priority interests and needs of in-country stakeholders and creating specific analysis and insights that will support training on data use.

ACTION AREA 4: between commencement and the end of 2022, and where capacity allows, the role-holder will contribute technically to meetings, webinars and other engagements with regional and multilateral organisations including the Pacific Community and relevant UN agencies, governments and civil society organisations.

THE OFFER

Permanent full-time role. Classified at SCHADS 6 plus superannuation and salary packaging.

HOW TO APPLY

If you are looking for an opportunity to make a key contribution to a rights-based international development agency committed to gender equality for all, click apply and submit your application by 11:59pm on 31 May 2022.

Find the full position description here.

International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) has an Equal Opportunity exemption (H69/2022) and requests applications from people who identify as women only.

IWDA welcomes people with different skills and life experiences, and encourages women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, women with disabilities and First Nations women to apply. Preference will be given to applicants who have experience in, or strong community ties to, one of the countries in which IWDA supports partners.

Any offer of employment will require a National Police Check and endorsement of IWDA’s Child Protection Code of Conduct. All applicants must be legally entitled to live and work in Australia.

Removing bias from the hiring process

Applications closed Sun 5th Jun 2022

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Removing bias from the hiring process

  • Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
  • You’ll need a CV/résumé, but it’ll only be considered if you score well on the anonymous review

Applications closed Sun 5th Jun 2022