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Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

• Developing products and dashboards for monitoring & evaluation of multiple funding programmes.
• Trained staff in facilitation methods.
• Led analysis to identify and communicate where we made the most difference.
• Procured impact studies and adapted methods in-house.
• Conceived and implemented new frameworks for measurement and reporting.
• Used innovative methods to assist research and analysis to deliver meaningful insights.

Wellington, New Zealand

• Developed strategic work programmes for regions, sectors, firms, and economic development portfolios.
• Redeveloped the NZ Regions mobile app and web tool to inform regional decision making.
• Conceived and developed dashboards to inform on the potential socio-economic impacts of COVID.
• Briefed the Minister for Economic Development.
• Developed outcome indicators and intervention logics.
• Formed and ran the Modelling Community of Practice.

Wellington

• Conceived and led development of the NZ Regions mobile app.
• Led development of the Occupation Outlook mobile app.
• Conceived and developed the Occupation Dashboard to inform labour market policy.
• Developed estimates of household incomes at smaller geographies.
• Developed regular reports on the labour market for the Minister for Employment.

• Managed the web, design, and public information functions during the six-month change into the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment.

• Developed the regular labour market reporting product for the Minister for Employment.
• Analysed labour market skills and capabilities using NZ and US occupation classifications.
• Ran modelling for estimating employment by occupation regionally.

• Wrote The Common Purpose Manifesto on what a system in which everyone can live fulfilling lives would involve and spoke on issues relating to this internationally.

• Advised the Minister of Social Development on the introduction of the Gold Card.
• Assisted War Pension Services Contact Centre processes to become more customer experience driven.

• Managed the legal research, information management, and knowledge management teams and use of the RightNow product.
• Assisted in embedding the IT work process solution for health & safety inspectors, mediators, and labour inspectors.

• Developed the Labour Market website, database and content management system.
• Provided career and labour market information, analysis, and forecasting services to government and NGOs.
• Advised the Thai government on career service products and their delivery in Thailand.
• Researched the training and labour market demands of different industries for Industry Training Organisations.
• Developed occupation workforce and forecasting products.

• Developed and marketed the product line of Career Services’ Commercial Career Resources.
• Led development and marketing of New Zealand's version of The Real Game.
• Led redevelopment and marketing of the CareerQuest software that matched peoples interests with occupations.
• Led redevelopment and marketing of The Options Kit career resource.
• Trained and spoke on career products and the labour market across New Zealand.

• Developed and embedded the process for staff to produce labour market insights for the KiwiCareers website.
• Procured occupation forecasts for the KiwiCareers website.
• Research and wrote on occupations and industries for the KiwiCareers website.
• Liaised with Industry Training Organisations, educational institutions, firms, professional bodies, and government departments.

Ma, Applied Social Science Research

Specialised in research methods, demography and sociological theory. Thesis was on anxiety disorder sufferers experience of attaining.

Ba, Anthropology / Philosophy

Studied human evolution, the philosophy of science, political philosophy, ancient history, and economics.