Experience

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  Global Compact Network Australia

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Team Coordinator & Executive Assistant

    • Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
    • Melbourne, Australia

    The United Nations Global Compcat (UNGC) is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative, with over 12,000 participating businesses and other organisations. It is both a practical framework for action and a platform for demonstrating corporate commitment and leadeship. As Executive Assistant to the Executive Director and Team Coordinator, it's my privilege to organise and coordinate the organisation on a day to day basis.Recent achievement: Execution and logistics for GCNA's first conferenc.e in April 2019, "Rebuilding trust in corporate Australia – Business as an Agent of Sustainable Change", sucessfully coordinating 230+ delegates and 47+ speakers.

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  RedR Australia

  • Australia
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Executive Assistant: Refugee Relief & Repatriation Commissioner

    • May 2018 - Nov 2018

    Our mission in Bangladesh was to respond to the Rohingya refugee crisis. My role was to support the UN and the Bangladesh Government to coordinate with other agencies and sectors, and ennsure excellent information flows for the UN and the Commissioner's office to help optimise our response so that we could better support basic humanitarian needs. [Seconded from UNHCR.]

  • Program Officer

    • Sep 2016 - May 2018

    Deploying humanitarian support for global crises. This involved balancing the priorities of various aid agencies, coordinating with international offices, identifying human resource requirements to appropriately respond to crises, and remote support for workers in country. In this role, I supported emergencies around the world including the East Africa famine, Haiti's 'Hurricane Matthew', and the Rohingya refugee crisis.

  • Training Coordinator

    • Aug 2014 - Aug 2016

    Coordinating core humanitarian training courses for tertiary students and humanitarian workers from various agencies, including DFAT, RedR, and staff at Post. My key tertiary partnership was with the University of Melbourne.

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  Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade)

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Research Project Assistant

    • 2008 - 2009
    • Melbourne, Australia

    Supporting research on the Maritime economic market in Norther and Western Europe, enabling Australian businesses to identify and understand global business opportunities that existed in these markets.