The role identifies and leads significant education and consulting projects that seek to enhance capacity in organisations to prevent discrimination, sexual harassment and human rights breaches, overcome systemic and attitudinal barriers and incorporate a human rights approach to service delivery and decision making. A core responsibility of this position is to develop and nurture stakeholder relationships that support a pipeline of consultancy work to generate revenue. The Senior Consultant, Equality and Human Rights is also responsible for managing internal resources sustainably and effectively and ensuring knowledge can be shared and retained within the Commission.

Develop and manage the Victorian State disability plan 2021-2024 consultation engagement plan and approach. In addition to drafting the consultation paper, other key roles I have played in this short period include applying a project planning framework, forming a weekly working group, development of the State disability plan website, stakeholder mapping, collaboration with the Legislation Reform on the Disability Act review. I developed the communication strategy including an engagement plan to ensure hard-to-reach groups are better represented to produce accessible versions of the consultation paper.Some achievements:● Ensured consultation of the State disability plan consultation paper was explicit in its human rights principles and consultation methods. ● Establishment of the Consultation working group which has reduced rework and ensured reductions of email traffic and confusion with stakeholders.

My role in the Sector and Participant Readiness team coordinates at a state-wide level, the preparation and implementation of the NDIS transition arrangements in divisions and areas. This includes transition implementation across workforce, provider and participant transition, communications and engagement. The unit is also responsible for coordinating the Operational Plan with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA).

Provision of technical advice for the Advocacy and Policy team at CBM Australia.

Principal Responsibilities:Developed disability inclusion measurement and tracking tool. Support the CBM-Nossal Partnership's capacity building activities for disability inclusive development practiceContribute to the generation of opportunities for the CBM-Nossal PartnershipContribute to CBM-Nossal Partnership team and program development

Business Requirements AnalysisIdentification of business procedure gaps and developing innovative yet simple solutions using analytical tools. Analysis includes risk analysis, data sampling, and pattern matching. Decisions are then made based on our findings. Identify business requirements, document them in structural ways. The preparation of reports, documentation, and data is then provided to key stakeholders.Conduct gap analysis to ensure Origin internal processes are in line with regulatory requirements. For instance, I identified we were over billing by a total of $200,000, rural customers in NSW peak charges during their Bank holidays when they should be billed on Off-peak charges. Solution ImplementationCollaborate with key stakeholders on implementation of solutions. These are enhancements of processes or regulatory types and support is given to stakeholders across all stages.During testing phases of software enhancements using various methods, we ensure new system enhancements behave as expected. Provide feedback on Business Procedure documentation as a Subject Matter Expert (SME). System enhancements by other business areas that cover my field (Metering) is reviewed and comments to ad hoc queries. Feedback is also given after reviewing colleague's work.Develop training manuals and processes for junior staff. After testing is complete for system enhancements, any process changes are communicated to staff through desktop training. Key achievementsInitiated and drove over the course of several months and across several business units a set of 3 procedural improvements. These enhancements were calculated to benefit the business over $700,000.Showing initiative, I developed a proposal for Origin's Disability Policy and a Disability Action Plan.

VSO-Nepal (Governance section)NFDH (Nepal National Federation of Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Peak DPO for Deaf people in Nepal)Principal Responsibilities:NFDH Board and Staff:Worked embedded in national umbrella body for Deaf people in Nepal, a non government organisation with 6 staff members.Facilitated workshop with NFDH Board of Management and staff to develop and implement a 5 year Strategy Plan.Lead and developed the first NFDH Staff Policy with consultation with staff.Supported staff in logistical preparations for an Asia-Pacific wide conference. This involved meeting government officials for official support.Advisor to elected Deaf Parliamentarian, and gave briefings on background information including political, legal (constitutional), and social justice matters. I had regular conferences with him fortnightly for 6 months. His literacy levels were insufficient to read the local papers, and required me to brief him through sign language.Provide monthly reports to VSO on progress and briefing of my work.Key AchievementsArranging many workshops and training courses for a wide range of topics and audiences, from deaf youth to government representatives. Earning the trust and support from NFDH board and staff. I learnt the Nepali sign language and the Nepali alphabet.Advisor to Deaf parliamentarian for 6 months.