Diana Labiris Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In this role, I support Australian employers to take action on gender equality in their workplaces, by providing them with tools, resources and learning opportunities.

In this role, I led on the implementation of Our Watch's Learning Strategy, ensuring best practice adult learning principles were embedded in all of our organisational and professional development offerings, including providing technical advice and quality assurance from development through to delivery and evaluation/review. In this role, I line managed one direct report.My achievements included:• developing a suite of training offerings for the newly-launched Our Watch Institute, Our Watch's profit for purpose-arm. This suite of offerings supported businesses to embed diversity, equity and inclusion and prevent sexual harrassment;• overseeing the development of the Change the story training package, supporting organisations to embed gender equity in their work; and• establishing new systems and processes, following an organisational restructure, including a dashboard reporting system used by executive management and the board.

In this role, I worked to build the capacity of people and organisations to promote gender equity and prevent violence agasint women, nationally.My achievements included:• managing a project that aimed to build the capacity of practitioners, throughout Australia, to promote gender equity and other forms of diversity, equity and inclusion;• developing a program of webinars and delivering a webinar attended by 250 stakeholders;• developing the Media Making Change and Prevention in Action websites, which set out how organisations can embed gender equity in their work; and• developing a suite of online learning resources for practitioners who work with young people.

In this role, as Acting Manager of the Practice Development team, I provided line management to five staff and strategic oversight of Our Watch’s program of professional development offerings.

Sydney, Australia

In this role, I worked to embed research evidence about violence against women into policy and practice, nationally.My achievements included:• planning a forum about the National Risk Assessment Principles for domestic and family violence attended by 150 stakeholders; and• developing and disseminating a range of learning resources, including a research synthesis about domestic and family violence and homelessness.

I provided private consultancy to government and not-for-profit clients. Projects I worked on included developing a training package about preventing and responding to domestic and family violence in the workplace for the ACT Government.

Canberra, Australia

In this role, I managed the co-design of the Family Safety Hub, the flagship program of the ACT Government’s Safer Families reform package.My achievements included:• leading the co-design process, including engaging stakeholders across government and the community sector, as well as people with lived experience of domestic and family violence;• writing the Cabinet Submission and Business Case, which were agreed by Cabinet and Treasury; and• successfully managing the project through to delivery, including project planning and scheduling, budgeting, contract management and monitoring and evaluation.

Thornbury

In this role, supported and resourced health and human services providers to improve responses to domestic and family violence, including through the provision of a range of capability building resources, events and training.My achievements included:• managing and delivering a number of projects, including the development of a new website and an induction program for new workers;• developing a number of learning resources, including an online resource about supporting migrant and refugee women in culturally safe ways;• convening and providing secretariat support for committees and working groups; and• developing an online newsletter and disseminating it, monthly.

Clayton

In this role, I was responsible for internal and change communications for Monash University's Finance portfolio, which employed 250 people. This role involved supporting change management processes across the university, including the embedding of a new expense management system.

Bachelor Of Arts (Honours) (Media And Communications)

Master Of Arts In Gender Studies

For my thesis, I researched engaing young men in the promotion of gender equality and the prevention of violence against women. I.