Health & Evaluation Manager

Job description

• Specialise in population health & research/evaluation
• Working with stakeholders across various departments
• Contract until early December 2026 | CBD location

Reporting to the Director, Strategy Implementation and Engagement, this Manager role will lead high-quality monitoring, evaluation and population health initiatives across the organisation. The role focuses on translating data and insights into practical recommendations that guide commissioning, and organisational decision-making.

You will work closely with the analytical and evaluations teams as well as senior leaders to ensure population health intelligence and evaluation findings inform future planning and frameworks. This is a hands-on role that will suit a data-driven leader with strong health and evaluation background, and a passion for applying insights to drive continuous improvement and better community health outcomes.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead population health planning, evaluation, and performance reporting across commissioned programs
• Liaise and work closely with internal teams to design evaluation frameworks, complete written outputs and translate data into actionable recommendations
• Drive improvement in systems, processes, and organisational capability to enable robust
• Lead the development and application of Health Needs Assessment (HNA) to guide commissioning and organisational priorities
• Work closely with teams across the organisation to ensure monitoring, evaluation, and population health activities are relevant, practical, and actionable.
• Provide actionable insights that inform commissioning decisions and support continuous improvement

Ideally you will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in public health, epidemiology, evaluation, health economics, or other related areas.
• Extensive experience in monitoring, evaluation, and population health planning, ideally in the health or community services sector.
• Strong skills in data analysis, interpretation, and translating insights into practical recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience with Health Needs Assessments and using population health intelligence to inform commissioning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly to diverse audiences.

Benefits include:

• Flexible working arrangements, including work-from-home options.
• Supportive and inclusive workplace culture.
• Up to 6 days of Paid 'Life Leave' per calendar year for cultural celebrations, family events, birthdays etc.
• Support for parents with Paid Parental Leave options.
• Generous salary packaging, health and wellbeing programs, and professional development opportunities.

Please APPLY now or email Sinead - [email protected] for a confidential chat.

At Charterhouse, we embrace, and value, diversity of culture, working arrangements, sexual orientation, and gender identity. On behalf of our client, we promote a workplace that actively seeks to include and welcome unique contributions of all people; to embrace and celebrate the value of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, their skills and contributions to the workplace.