Evaluation capacity is like a muscle: the more we use it, the stronger it grows. The Evaluation Profession is helping build this capacity across the APS.
Evaluation Profession
Ensure evaluation evidence is at the heart of policy design and decision-making by joining the Evaluation Profession. Learn from the experts, grow your network and gain access to learning resources.
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The Evaluation Profession will help to build an APS workforce that uses evaluation, evidence and continuous improvement to drive outcomes. This positively impacts our policies and programs.
The Evaluation Profession brings together people who assess the effectiveness and efficiency of government policies, programs and initiatives and aims to champion evaluative thinking and evaluation – in all its forms – across the APS.
It will help build evaluation capability, support diversity and mobility in evaluation roles, and foster innovation.
Who is this Profession suitable for?
The Evaluation Profession is a community for employees who want to use evaluation, evidence and continuous improvement to drive outcomes of policies and programs.
Benefits of joining this Profession
- Develop critical skills in evaluation that contribute to programs and policies that make a difference.
- Contribute to fostering accountability, transparency and continuous improvement to ensure that government initiatives deliver real and measurable impact.
- Expand your network and learn from evaluation experts and practitioners.
- Build your confidence to design and contribute to evaluations, measure program performance, and provide evidence-based recommendations.
- Strengthen your understanding of impact monitoring, evaluation, and performance management.
- Support better evaluation practice across the entire policy cycle, from design through to implementation and review.
- Advocate for better evaluative practices and improve monitoring, evaluation, and performance management across the entire policy cycle.
- Contribute to a culture of evidence-based decision-making and continuous learning within government.
Heads of the Evaluation Profession
Co-Head Dr Shane Johnson, First Assistant Secretary, Tax Analysis Division, Department of the Treasury, and Co-Head Danielle Wood, Chair of the Productivity Commission promote the improvement of evaluation skills, support evidence-based policies, connect practitioners, and promote advanced evaluation approaches.
Evaluation Profession Strategy
The Evaluation Profession Strategy sets out the plan to embed a culture of evaluation and continuous learning to underpin evidence-based policy and delivery. It outlines the vision, context, priorities and actions needed to build evaluation capability across the APS.
The strategy establishes how the Evaluation Profession will develop a professional pathway for public-sector evaluators, build evaluation awareness and technical ability and enable high-quality evidence to deliver better outcomes for all Australians.
Work
Teams and Roles
The APS Jobs website serves as a central platform for exploring careers within the Australian Public Service (APS). It provides job search tools, highlights career pathways, and shares general information about working for the APS.
The APS Mobility Framework promotes temporary moves across agencies and sectors, helping employees build skills, expand networks, support priority work and strengthen a connected, agile One APS culture.
People
Networks and Communities
The Evaluation Profession encourages you to develop critical skills in evaluation. Those skills contribute to shaping programs and policies that make a difference. By joining you will contribute to fostering accountability, transparency and continuous improvement.
Resources
Frameworks and Standards
The APS Evaluation Profession Strategy strengthens evaluation capability, evidence-based decision-making and professional development, helping government improve policies, programs and outcomes through learning and innovation.
Tools and templates
The Commonwealth Evaluation Policy promotes consistent, evidence-based evaluation across government, helping agencies improve decision-making, accountability, program outcomes and continuous learning.
The Commonwealth Evaluation Toolkit helps APS staff plan, conduct and use evaluations effectively, strengthening evidence-based decisions, accountability, continuous improvement and better program outcomes.
Courses
APSLearn
This course introduces APS staff to benefits realisation management and provides practical examples of its application.
The course provides an understanding of the key principles that underpin the ethical and responsible conduct of research and evaluation with and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
This course introduces APS staff to evaluation in the Australian Government context. Concepts are covered with Commonwealth Evaluation Policy principles and practical examples.
This course introduces public servants to program logic models for policy, project and program development, implementation and evaluation. Program logic models are visual tools for thinking about the way an intervention is intended to create a desired change.
This course will assist APS policy, program and project staff to understand what randomisation is and how to apply it in their own work.
Programs
This program will assist APS policy, program and project staff to understand key evaluation concepts and apply them in their own work.
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