Gordon Conochie Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

The world’s longest serving Prime Minister is Hun Sen of Cambodia, who has held power since 1985. In 2013, his rule came under threat when the exiled opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, unexpectedly returned just before a national election. One hundred thousand supporters hailed him at the airport as protests swept the country. On election day, millions voted.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Develop and manage a team of policy and advocacy staff to influence Victorian and Australian government policy. Establish and support the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ageing and Aged Care Council

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Collaborate with Professor Virginia Lewis, Head of the Centre for Health Systems Development in the Australian Institute for Primary Care and Ageing at La Trobe University

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for leading organisational-wide strategic projects including the re-design of our client referral and intake processes; use of interpreters and contracts with interpreter agencies; allied health; Achievements:- Established and rolled-out video consultation capability across cohealth’s services, which enabled the continuation of service during.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Related to workforce planning, I was responsible for GP, nursing and administrative staffing of 13 COVID testing and 4 primary care clinics, as well as temporary mobile clinics and health concierge staff at 6 cohealth centres. I organised redeployment of staff, conducted large scale rapid recruitment and built relationships with external GPs and nursing.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• I was responsible for all programmes relating to chronic disease, allied health, children’s health and parenting, youth support services, aged care, counselling, social work, residential mental health, victims of crime.
• Established mechanisms to monitor performance against targets at clinician and team level that assisted improvement against target from 86% to 93% in a few months.
• Directed a re-allocation and refurbishment of space in one of our health centres to enable the establishment of a new model for physiotherapy and exercise physiology that greatly increased capacity and outcomes for.

Melbourne, Australia

• I managed four teams encompassing public health promotion, refugee and asylum seeker health, client intake and assessment, and community mental health service planning for cohealth and three other agencies in north.
• Trebled the capacity of a health promotion program which then won the national Australian Human Rights award for tackling race-based discrimination.
• Developed and implemented cohealth’s first organisational-wide health literacy plan that made cohealth national leaders in this area.
• Developed an evaluation framework for multiple programmes to report outcomes at a team and aggregated level.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

I was a full-time consultant managing and reviewing VSO Cambodia's existing programmes in health, education, livelihoods, good governance and international citizenship. My review sharpened the focus and cohesion of these programmes, whilst developing plans to increase the scale of them that successfully attracted funding from international aid agencies.

Phnom Penh

I was a VSO adviser who was placed with NEP to build the management, research and advocacy capacity of NEP and the 100+ other education NGOs that are members of NEP. I help NEP conduct research into education issues and work with the Government and development organisations such as UNICEF and the World Bank, to develop education policy and implementation..

London, United Kingdom

I managed policy and parliamentary affairs for both charities to influence health and social care policy. I built relationships with Ministers, senior opposition politicians, civil servants, local authorities and media representatives writing reports and briefing papers for them. I was a member of the Minister’s Social Care Task Force and managed the.

United Kingdom

I managed a UK wide team of four people focussing on major donor and event fundraising. I managed 3 fundraising campaign boards and recruited new donors giving £10,000+ p/a. I was also responsible for organising events, including those attended by the British Royal family.Key achievements- Raised an annual income of approximately £1m- Recruited a major.

Master Of Philosophy (Mphil), International Relations, Pass With Merit

My thesis researched the incidence of war in the 21st century amongst democratic states, amongst communist states and amongst fascist.

Foundation Certificate, Professional Skills For International Development, Pass

A practical, research based qualification for VSO advisers working in international development, this Postgraduate Certificate is.

Master Of Arts (Hons), Politics, Upper Second Class (2:1)

Activities and Societies: Organised the university's seven-a-side football league. Wrote articles for the University's newspaper. My.