I am a full-time professional currently working in the position of Clubhouse Coordinator at YWCA Canberra. In this role I am primarily responsible for coordinating and delivering engaging and educational STEAMM activities for young people aged 10-18 in under-served communities. In this role, I was awarded 2020 Outstanding Youth Worker for my innovative program design, and ability to connect and support diverse young people.I am a values-based individual, which drives to me work directly with community groups to build their resilience. I am enthusiastic about supporting people to realise their goals through a person-centred and strengths-based approach. This vivacity drives me to identify needs in the community and asses service gaps. As a long-term not-for-profit professional, I have also developed strong proficiencies in developing positive stakeholder and partner relationships that fulfil these service gaps, ensuring the best outcomes for community. In my previous role as Youth Engagement Officer, I used these skills to adapt the existing award-winning Y-Aspire Young Women’s Leadership Program and coordinated and co-facilitated the first out-of-hours Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Koori Y-Aspire Program. Together with ACT Parks and Conservation Service, I also created the multi award-winning 'What's Your Reality' program that produces engaging and educational virtual reality experiences of nature-based activities to be experienced by people, specifically young people, who face barriers to access such activities due to range in mobility, distance, mental health, and more. I am particularly practiced in public speaking and am highly commended for presenting, facilitation, and group work. I have also been sought out to present women’s leadership workshops at YWCA Canberra She Leads program of events to engage young women and empower them to ignite their leadership journeys.Through my education qualification, I have a dedicated and proven passion for professional development, which includes consistently working on my own development and supporting others with their development; it is this which drives my career goals as this builds empowerment.
Listed skills include Public Speaking, Group Work, Organization Skills, Youth Programs, and 3 others.
