Jann Milic

Jann has over 20 years experience in the public sector in a diverse range of executive and senior management roles, including in policy and evaluation and over nine years in the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office, leading multidisciplinary teams to conduct performance audits. Jann is passionate about working with clients to design rigorous evaluations and reviews to optimise policy and program outcomes and organisational or business performance, in a cost effective manner.

Jann has conducted over 100 evaluations and reviews. Projects have included the Victorian Government’s Trade Missions Program,  Review of Melbourne 2030 strategy, Evaluation of the Department of Justice’s Neighbourhood Justice Centre, Department of Education’s School Accountability Framework performance audit and Vocational education and training industry and student outcomes performance audit.

Jann’s areas of expertise and specialties include the following:

• Developing and implementing monitoring and evaluation policy frameworks, standards and governance.
• Designing tools, practice guides and resources to support the monitoring and evaluation policy framework
• Developing and implementing monitoring and evaluation capacity and capability building strategies.
• Economic evaluation (e.g. benefit/cost analysis, cost-effectiveness, ROI, SROI and economic impact assessments).
• Impact and outcomes evaluation, particularly relevant to complex economic environments.
• Performance audit to assess effectiveness, efficiency and economy of government policy implementation, strategies, programs and services.
• Outcomes Logic Models, evaluation plans design and facilitation.
• Research methodologies and techniques (e.g. statistical models, regression analysis, round-table facilitation and survey design).
• Project management to ensure evaluations are delivered on time, to budget and quality.
• Performance measurement, including performance measures and indicators.

Jann holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Economics and Politics), a Diploma of Education and a Master of Public Policy and Evaluation.

Jann is a member Australasian Evaluation Society (AES). From 2006- 2010 she organized the AES professional learning seminar program and she was a member of the AES Organising Committee for the International conference held in Melbourne in 2007. In 2014 Jann was a member of the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office External Expert Panel to advise on their public sector performance reporting performance audit.