Kathryn Harries Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, SA, AU

Kathryn is available to support, contextualise, institutionalise and expand the Field Team Impact Kit (FieldTiK) approach, developed in her PhD. She is currently seeking organisations and funding for a pilot.

Victoria, Australia

Trainer for:- Essentials of Humanitarian Practice course, in Australia and the Pacific (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)- WASH in Emergencies course (2016, 2018, 2022, 2023)- Global WASH Cluster’s ‘Leadership and Coordination Pilot Training’ in Nepal, Philippines and Zimbabwe (2016)

Various

• Casual lecturer / academic, Deakin University (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023). Including monitoring and evaluation support for frontline leadership training in the Ukraine response for Centre for Humanitarian Leadership.
• Developed the Pacific WASH in Emergencies Coordination Handbook, working with governments and organisations in the region. (Contracted to UNICEF Pacific: 2017).
• Facilitated the five-day inaugural Fiji National WASH Summit. Sixty participants from eight Ministries produced a Joint Implementation Plan to meet the draft National Water and Sanitation Policy. Contracted to UNICEF.
• Facilitated a 4-day Review Workshop for the Fiji WASH Cluster (2017)
• Casual lecturer, James Cook University (WASH component of the Refugee Health course: 2016)
• Facilitated the ‘WASH and Nutrition’ workshop at Stockholm World Water Week 2015 for ACF / Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)

Melbourne, Australia

This research enhances the response to international disaster through development of a practical guide that empowers technical field teams in humanitarian organisations with improved leadership, management, and knowledge retention. Expert review overwhelmingly endorsed the guide would filla significant gap, leading to a more sustainable, locally led.

Brisbane, Australia

• Developed and led the knowledge and learning (K&L) component of the AUD103m DFAT-funded Civil Society WASH Fund. The Fund covered 13 organisations implementing 29 projects to improve the delivery of WASH services in 19.

Somalia

• Recognised as global good practice for knowledge management and information sharing. The Global WASH Cluster Coordinator commented on feedback from cluster members: ‘taken together they paint a picture of great.
• Coordinated 178 active WASH organisations in the response to drought, famine, acute malnutrition, food insecurity and mass displacement in Somalia, within the environment of insecurity, ongoing incursion, limited.
• Facilitated the development of common strategies, plans, standards and technical guidance to achieve the goal of effective sustainable humanitarian WASH action. Technical guidance included: a one-page ‘gender’ guide.
• Established a representative WASH Cluster Strategic Advisory Group
• Strengthened decision making at local level with democratic elections for Regional Focal Points, clear roles and responsibilities and feed up/down mechanisms supported by simple guides
• Strengthened inter-cluster outcomes with responsibility matrices for WASH/Nutrition/Health Clusters and WASH/Health Cholera/AWD Prevention and Response Guide

Jaipur, State Of Rajasthan, India

• Led the UNICEF WASH team in a state of 68 million people. Developed, with the team, 'Guides to achieve results': a practical knowledge management system to continually improve the program. The guides were later shared.
• Provided technical support to the Government of Rajasthan (GoR): With the Public Health Engineering Dept (PHED): o Piloted the development of twenty Community-centred Village Water Security Plans, which were later.
• Leveraged government funds to increase government schools with two toilets by 28%, to a total of 80% schools with separate toilets for girls and boys. With a roll-out plan for quality construction, operation and.
• Improved handwashing, with a cross-department committee, using Global Handwashing Day to: o Teach over 8 million school children the five steps to handwashing in 2008 o Improve the enabling environment, including.
• As the Emergency Focal Point for UNICEF Rajasthan, established an InterAgency Group (IAG) for coordinated emergency response to support and be led by the GoR
• Provided emergency surge support to Sri Lanka WASH Cluster (May - Jul 2009)

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• As a member of the Global WASH Cluster Advocacy and Support Team worked with an inter-agency group of WASH experts to improve humanitarian response
• Developed inter-cluster responsibility and accountability matrices to clarify areas of potential overlap between Clusters. This included a Health/Nutrition/WASH matrix, Shelter/WASH matrix and Education/WASH matrix. A.

East Timor

• Provided emergency water, sanitation and drainage facilities to 24 IDP camps
• Introduced monthly interagency technical WASH meetings, conducted in English and Tetun, to improve sector capacity and inform future government emergency WASH guidelines

Sydney, Australia

• Responsible for health, safety, environment and budget for three water filtration plants, four pumping stations, three reservoirs and an emergency (liquid) chlorination facility
• Operated under a top-down Integrated Management System accredited to the international quality standard ISO9001

Sydney, Australia

• Awarded Sydney Water 2005 Annual Team Award for plant optimisation
• Empowered team and encouraged continual improvement via a bottom-up Integrated Management System (IMS) which combined quality, environment and safety and was accredited to ISO 14001
• Responsible for quality, safety, environment and budget

Sydney, Australia

• Developed a Wastewater Integrated Management System (WW-IMS) across eight wastewater business units, to empower teams to achieve environmental, quality, safety objectives together. Each business unit was accredited to.
• Briefed the US EPA who used this approach as a case studyAll members of the Project Team and Steering Team were awarded Brilliance awards for successful outcome within time and budget

Sydney, Australia

• Acting Plant Manager, Riverstone Hub Sewage Treatment Plants
• Production Officer, Quakers Hill Sewage Treatment Plant
• Executive Development Centre Coordinator, and other roles on graduate programme

Philippines

• Provided technical support to government, Red Cross and NGOs, in the first phase of humanitarian response following a landslide, as part of a DFAT (then AusAID) Rapid Response Team.

Philippines

• Provided technical support to the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) for current and planned rural water and sanitation projects.
• Facilitated development of a PNRC ‘ideal’ WatSan Project Plan for improved internal knowledge capture and transfer.

Australia

Sold radioisotopes and other molecular biology products to research scientists

Europe

Led groups, of up to 50 people, on tours, of up to 40 days, across continental Europe

Sydney, Australia

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Centre For Humanitarian Leadership

Development of a practical guide to improve leadership and management within technical field teams in humanitarian organisations

Post Graduate Certificate, Water And Environmental Management, Distinction

Masters Of Engineering Science, Water And Waste Technology, Distinction

Bachelor Of Science, Microbiology And Biochemistry