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.

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. The Evaluation Profession 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.

Benefits of joining the Evaluation Profession

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 the Evaluation Profession, you will contribute to fostering accountability, transparency and continuous improvement. This ensures government initiatives deliver real and measurable impact. By expanding your network and learning from experts, you’ll position yourself to confidently:

  • design evaluations
  • measure program performance
  • provide evidence-based recommendations.

The Evaluation Profession will also support and promote better practice impact monitoring, evaluation, and performance management across the entire policy cycle.

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