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Provide leadership to Community Libraries and grow the capability to deliver outstanding customer experiences for the diverse communities of the Papakura, Manurewa and Franklin Local Board areas. • Successfully supporting teams through the integration and embedding of library and council customer services.• Supporting the personal and professional development of Managers Community Libraries.• Lead and implement complete indigenisation of recruitment processes, team development and service delivery of Te Paataka Koorero o Takaanini

As a Specialist Advisor in the Community Empowerment Unit, I have worked alongside communities to bring to life the projects that matter to them. We do this by applying the Empowered Communities Approach, providing practical support, working with internal stakeholders, and giving specialist advice to elected members.

Our world is increasingly in search for meaningful and authentic cross-cultural connection. We understand that culture is crafted through the dynamism of interlinking and sometimes conflicting sources. As such, we believe that the collective response to diversity not only shapes what is possible to do but what is possible to be and become.Tū Moana provides opportunities to explore the mana-centred approach, which draws on both western and indigenous ways of understanding yourself, as a first step to understanding others, regardless of your cultural background. Venturing into mana-centred leadership provides the agency and insight needed to work with and in diverse teams, organisations and communities.

Auckland, New Zealand

Rākau Tautoko is a small Auckland-based consulting group undertaking community-related projects, community research and development advice, facilitation and leadership. Rākau Tautoko is a network of skilled, creative and like-minded practitioners who enjoy working together and take pride in doing high quality community work.

Auckland, New Zealand

Diversity Works NZ (formally known as the EEO Trust) is a not-for-profit organisation tasked with providing Diversity and Inclusion information and tools to employers and raising awareness of diversity issues in New Zealand workplaces.

Auckland, New Zealand

Coordinating a nation wide youth mental project, designed to reduce stigma and discrimination associated with mental distress.

Raleigh International is a sustainable development organisation. Harnessing the passion and energy of young people to effect positive change in sustainable development. The Borneo programme operates from Sabah, in the north of the island of Borneo, where many people live below the poverty line.The projects focus on building strong, resilient communities; providing access to safe water and sanitation and protecting the incredible biodiversity in the area.

Sabah, Malaysia

Trained and managed nearly 100 volunteers of diverse abilities and backgrounds. Trained and supported over 20 Project Managers to deliver to the objectives of six remote project sites. A highlight was innovating the water and sanitation programming, writing the community education resource and training project managers to support volunteers in its delivery, developing the process to track behavior change, putting in place the building blocks for community mobilisation around the issue and distilling highly technical concepts to workable and practical actions at a grassroots level.

OIYP is a youth development program by Oxfam International. It has existed since 2000 and has since generated and supported a global network of nearly 1200 young change makers living and working in 100 countries to create a peaceful and sustainable world.This role was responsible for facilitating the learning outcomes of participants located in 300 communities across the globe who are working on development issues through a human rights based approach.Highlights have been building the capacity of over 150 individuals from marginalised populations to implement their advocacy and project management objectives. Designing the learning framework for nearly 20 individuals living and working in communities impacted by food insecurity to achieve their objectives in engaging at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development . Facilitating a learning project assisting 23 young gender justice activists to address economic injustices at an international and grassroots level in settings as diverse as refugee camps in Tanzania, indigenous communities in Mexico, LGBT communities in Colombia, sex workers in the Philippines and girls education in Pakistan.

Working with the Glen Innes community, rainbow community and tertiary education community through a community action approach to identify and implement evidence informed policy and practices that lead to reduced drug harms.Facilitation is a large part of this role; a highlight has been facilitating community leaders and Members of Parliament toward a shared vision of alcohol law reform.Success in this role has led to being keynote speaker for Converse Youth Summit, keynote speaker for the Auckland Regional Alcohol Forum and panelist at the launch of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity at Te Papa o Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand.

Te Waipuna provides learning and development programmes, creative opportunities, healing therapies and environmental projects.Te Waipuna responds to the needs of young mothers (14yrs - 19yrs) with a tailored learning and development programme, child birth learning classes and mentoring supported by robust evaluation.

Ka Mau Te Wero Charitable Trust

Ka Mau is a community development and health promotion trust in Auckland. Committed to co-creating a supportive socio-ecological environment that fosters population mental health promotion with the people of Glen Innes.Ka Mau works with the population to enhance community connectedness, build community capacities, celebrate community cultural diversity and increase community control over its own destiny.

Designed and developed five learning and development programmes for a community organization in its development year. The programmes were aimed at addressing poverty through building the capacity of young people to access training, employment and enterprise and working with employment and training stakeholders to address the systemic barriers young people face when trying to exit poverty.This self-designed process included working with local young people to ensure a co-design approach and initiating and coordinating community working groups to ensure intended programme outcomes reflected community priorities.

Facilitated and coordinated a youth development squad, building their capacity to deliver youth led events and activities. My development methodology was so successful programme outputs were exceeded by 400%

Delivered Ellerslie YMCA’s first youth development programme. This involved establishing, facilitating and coordinating a youth advisory group; forming and maintaining partnerships with schools, health service providers and businesses; managing and administering budgets, health and safety practices, volunteers and reporting processes.

My contribution was to identify and interview mentor facilitators, compile a training and operations manual for mentors, design and implement a mentor training package, ensure mentor facilitation plans aligned to the project outcomes and provide pastoral support, monitoring and feedback to mentors.

Mentored over 60 high school students, exploring their aspirations and building their capacity to attain that. Many have graduated from university since.

Analysed traffic crash reports to determine trends and common determinants to traffic crashes. My analytical skills and attention to detail were such that eventually all fatal traffic crash reports for the North Island were referred to me for analysis.