David Keegan Email & Phone Number

Schofields, NSW, AU

Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia

Lecturer and academic in Social Work and academic lead for Field Education.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Providing Strategic Management Consulting to the charity and humanitarian sector including strategy reviews, evaluations, social policy advice and individual coaching. I specialise in supporting organisations to focus on impact and sustainability by utilising human centred design and innovation principles.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

HOST International NZ is a subsidiary of HOST International Ltd and aims to deliver innovative settlement solutions to former refugees who have made a home in NZ. HOST works with local partners to design a implement solutions that promote independence and wellbeing through a whole of community strengths based approach.

Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia

Teaching in units across the Bachelor and Masters of Social Work programs.

Sydney, Australia

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of HOST International. Responsible for all operations and strategy and accountable to the board of directors.HOST is a charitable company aiming to provide expert advice and support services to assist refugee integration in host communities throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Sydney, Australia

Regional Opportunities Australia (ROA) was established in February 2019 to help migrants and refugees move from big cities to regional Australia and connect them with employment and business opportunities. ROA's role is twofold; it will identify employment and business opportunities in regional areas, and it will also identify migrants and refugees in.

Sydney Area, Australia

Accredited to deliver the Youth, Adult and E-learning versions of Mental Health First Aid. I have reached Master Instructor status.Mental Health First Aid is a great program to equip people to respond to mental illness in their community and to address attitudes that lead to stigma.

Nauru

Executive leadership of all Connect operations including settlement services to refugees in Nauru and Cambodia. Reported to a board of directors.This position required me to live on Nauru and to work closely with the Government of Nauru to develop capacity.

Ashfield

Work with operational and senior managers to ensure services are integrated and delivered with purpose and in accordance with SSI values. The role is also responsible for fosterering service innovation.

Parramatta

Divisional Senior Manager for Humanitarian Settlement (HSS) and Asylum Seeker (SRSS) programs operating in metropolitan and regional NSW and funded by the Federal Government.SSI provides valuable support to assist people from a refugee background to transition into the Australian community. The Humanitarian division of SSI supports approximately 8,000.

Auburn, Sydney

Coordinated training and development activities for staff as well as administering and implementing a client database system for casework staff. The position also included management of the client orientation program in the last 5 months of the role.Key achievements included the development of casework policies and training all staff in complex case work.

Sydney Area, Australia

Provided policy and training consulting to community services organisations in relation to complex casework and mental health.Key projects included- supporting OOHC accreditation- policy development- tailored MHFA training- development of Homelessness Case Management Kit on behalf of FaCS- wrote and implemented case management training for homelessness.

Bankstown

Designed and maintained e-learning resources and supported teaching staff to integrate e-learning in their teaching.In this role I designed and built digital content for an online version of First Aid and tools for online English courses.Gained skills in Adobe creative suite products and Sharepoint.

Granville, New South Wales, Australia

Teacher in community services courses. Coordinated the Cert IV and Diploma of Mental Health and the general Diploma of Community Services. I also negotiated and delivered work based training and co wrote and delivered the Advanced Diploma of Community Sector Management.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I was the operations manager and second in charge to the CEO for a youth homelessness peak in NSW. My role was responsible for oversight of day to day operations and supporting advocacy activities and member engagement. My achievements in this short time were to strengthen our member services and resources and to provide more strategic support to member.

Westmead

Divisional manager for a team of case managers providing therapeutic support to homeless and at risk young people in Western Sydney.Included managing Out of Home Care residential services, early intervention programs with families at risk of breakdown and post release support for juvenile offenders.During this role I also provided support to an indigenous.

Broxburn

Worked as a Child Protection Social Worker during a working holiday in the UK. Specialised in adolescent family breakdown cases and out of home care social work. Also gained experience working within the panel system in Scotland.

Various - Western Sydney

Worked as a Child Protection Case Worker covering investigation, assessment, out of home care and court work. I worked with a number of cases with generational patterns of abuse and sought to find constructive solutions to protect children and strengthen families.

Masters, Management (Community Management)

I undertook a major research project exploring low cost retention and motivation approaches in the non profit sector. For this research I.

Degree, Social Work

During my studies I completed a placement at Penrith Council to evaluate the impact of regional funding losses and another at the Dept of.

Professional Certificate In Migration Management, Migration