The Assistant Secretary provides guidance, leadership and direction to align the Health Modelling, Partnerships and Evaluation Branch's priorities with the strategic directions of the Department and Government. This role requires a strategic thinker with leadership and management ability, possessing strong numerical, written and verbal skills to inform strategic policy, and with demonstrated ability as a persuasive leader.
The key duties of the position include Work collaboratively with policy divisions and the Department of Finance to monitor, estimate, and explain forward estimates of expenditure for the Departments major programs.Build models that support policy design including delivery of the Health Outcome Modelling and Evaluation (HOME) project.Lead the department's Evaluation Centre and implement the Evaluation Strategy 2023-2026.Leading the Commonwealth policy agenda to improve the quality of health care through stronger evidence by delivering the National One Stop Shop for Clinical Trials and the National Clinical Quality Registry Strategy.Collaborate with the internal Data and Analytics Branch (HERD), the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics to enhance and progress the national Health data system. #J-18808-Ljbffr