Upside Youth Mentoring walks alongside young people affected by traumatic childhood experiences who are at risk of long-term negative outcomes. Young people, aged 9-13, are referred from local schools and Upside volunteers provide long-term, one-on-one mentoring to help the young person navigate challenges and reimagine their future. Since 2006, Upside has successfully mentored over 1000 young people, with a life-changing impact.

Tearfund is one of the largest aid agencies in New Zealand, working to reduce extreme poverty and exploitation among the world’s most vulnerable people. I led a busy team of 27 people, overseeing fundraising products, channels, campaigns, appeals, marketing communications, public and media relations, donor acquisition and retention, church partnerships and events, education and advocacy, digital marketing and social media and brand management. As part of the Executive team, I contributed to organisational strategy and represented Tearfund’s interests in key international alliances.

I thoroughly enjoyed working with Sir Bill English and the talented ImpactLab team, supporting their mission to see every philanthropic dollar invested where it will do the most good. In a world-first, ImpactLab combines powerful analytics and the best global scientific evidence to understand the social value of individual charities. Launched late 2019, ImpactLab is helping philanthropists identify the strongest investment opportunities for social change, and equipping charities to better understand and increase their impact.

Tax Traders was founded in 2011 by Josh and Nicola Taylor, in partnership with former Deputy Commissioner of Inland Revenue Robin Oliver, and former Deloitte partner Mike Shaw. Together they have built a specialist team committed to innovating New Zealand’s tax industry. Tax Traders is New Zealand’s fastest-growing IRD-approved tax pooling intermediary, the only independently audited tax pool, and the preferred partner to major accounting firms and corporates nationwide. Since our inception we have disrupted conventional approaches in the tax pooling industry with pioneering technology that not only makes tax pooling significantly easier, more transparent, faster and more accessible for all taxpayers, but also readies the industry for future demands through automation.

Parenting Place is a dynamic charity with a goal to see every whanau flourish in Aotearoa and for every child to feel deeply loved. Each year, 120 staff and hundreds of volunteers directly impact over 400,000 parents and young people. As Director of Strategic Partnerships, I developed and led national corporate and non-profit partnerships, and fostered new collaborations with organisations in disadvantaged communities. This included leveraging our programmes, resources and skills to equip organisations to more effectively support vulnerable parents.

I assisted the founders to establish the trust in 2010, and was later invited to join as CEO in 2014 to grow the organisation and extend its reach. Within two years under my leadership, the organisation had grown from four staff to 14, funding increased from $250,000 to $900,000 per annum, sustainable systems were in place and client numbers had increased by 60%. Importantly, new families experienced deep transformation within 3-6 months, reduced from a period of two years. “What Jenny accomplished at Te Wharakora was nothing short of incredible. From the clarity of vision and mission, to the evaluations of programmes, cohesion of staff culture, and expansion of resources, Jenny’s two years were marked by growth, depth, and rigour. She initiated plans to ensure sustainable growth and the multiplication of our whanau coaches that have since been enacted and are proving highly successful … The continued fruit and health of the work since her departure illustrates powerfully the impact of Jenny’s work.” GREG FLEMING, EXECUTIVE CHAIR, TE WHAKAORA TANGATA Te Whakaora restores South Auckland families overwhelmed by poverty, sexual abuse, gangs, drugs and violence. Through a unique emotional healing course, whanau coaching, one-on-one mentoring, crisis intervention, advocacy and other supports, the lives of hundreds of vulnerable mums and dads have been transformed.

My consulting firm, Communicode, provided strategy and communications support to businesses and charities nationwide, helping them deliver on their mission with greater precision and impact. My capacity-building strategies and marketing tools assisted a wide variety of organisations to advance with more confidence, stability and influence. My personal services included: - STRATEGIC PLANNING- MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS- BRANDING, COPYWRITING & DESIGN- FUNDRAISING STRATEGY- CHANGE MANAGEMENT- OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS- SERVICE RESTRUCTURING & DEVELOPMENT“Jenny is an insightful and gifted communicator … When she supports companies with their communication challenges, she can add significant value. Jenny helped us redraft and refine our marketing position. This has been very well received and has led to a number of new opportunities. I thoroughly recommend her.” – Phil Thompson, Managing Director, Edge Creative (NZ’s leading corporate event management company)“Jenny has consistently delivered a high level of work on last minute deadlines. She always understands and introduces additional valuable elements to enhance the original briefs. I would recommend her without question.” – Scott Maclachlan, Saiko Management (former global management of Grammy award winner, Lorde) “Over the past five years, Jenny has helped us with our strategic plan, marketing, rebranding and developing a sustainable funding plan. Jenny’s work has been pivotal to our current success. [In that time] we have grown from a backyard non profit organisation to a community-change model now branching out to four other communities and attracting over three million dollars in funding.” – Gary Diprose, CEO, Springboard Community Works [The organisation has since won Philanthropy NZ ‘Community Change Maker of the Year’ 2017 People’s Choice Award]

This part time contract role provided support for the Institute while their CEO was on a nine month sabbatical, and was later extended beyond his return. Responsibilities included the management of major donor relationships and funding strategy.

I was the founding Marketing Manager at the inception of this independent policy think tank. In this role, I contributed to the Institute’s strategic direction and policy, defined its brand, marketing and fundraising materials, was a media spokesperson, and built extensive networks across cultural, socio economic and political boundaries. During the four years of my employment, the Institute received three international awards for Institute Excellence, Social Entrepreneurship, and Initiative in Public Relations from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (USA).

At the time of my employment this faith-based charity was very embryonic, operating under the umbrella of Parenting With Confidence (now ‘The Parenting Place). I was appointed to establish Focus on the Family in New Zealand and I subsequently set up and managed the internal operations, staff, resources, marketing and advertising, nationwide development initiatives and I was also the public spokesperson. The organisation offered family-strengthening resources, as well as phone advice, seminars and radio broadcasts. During this time I increased the national database from 600 to 5000 people and resource sales increased from $7200/yr to $156,000/yr. I also established a network of 45 ‘Family Reps’ in churches nationwide.

Earlier in my career I worked as an Art Director in the advertising industry; as an Account Manager in the visual imaging industry; toured internationally for a number of years as a recording artist; and was a Graphic Designer in advertising and publishing. I also worked as a Broadcaster on the breakfast show of Auckland’s No.1 radio breakfast show, 91FM.