• Providing strategic leadership to International Development Unit programme teams.• Programme Lead for Papua New Guinea, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, and Solomon Islands country components of Climate-Smart Pacific Food Systems Programme supported by New Zealand's International Development Cooperation programme.• Programme Lead for Myanmar Resilient Horticulture Project supported by New Zealand's International Development Cooperation programme.• Programme Lead for research and learning partnership project with World Vision Timor-Leste. • Playing lead role in building and maintaining strategic partnerships with major international development donors.• Leading design and development of new international development programmes.• Co-leading projects with Science Leads.• Fostering a culture of best practice to design, develop and implement international development projects.• Contributing expert knowledge on global development contexts, approaches, practices, and cross-cutting issues such as gender and development.• Providing qualitative research design and delivery, Participatory Action Research, research ethics, and monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) expertise.• Providing technical expertise on risk management, health & safety management, prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PSEAH), safeguarding, cultural competency, and knowledge translation and brokering.• Developing and implementing communication strategies with key stakeholders.

• Providing global development expertise and strategic advice for Australian INGO partnering with civil society organisations in Myanmar on health workforce training programme and informal settlement health and education programmes.• Reviewing and advising on planning, reporting and grant applications, act as a referee for grant applications.

• Advised on the delivery of MFAT’s international development cooperation, activity development and implementation, business case development, procurement and contracting.• Led and facilitated team capability development for effective programme delivery, including Development 101 for junior staff.• Oversaw and quality assured the delivery of the Partnership Unit’s portfolio of activities ($120m), across all stages of the activity lifecycle (concept, design, implementation, evaluation).• Contributed critical thinking and advice on policy issues and opportunities to enhance MFAT’s aid/development investments.• Managed a complex, high-profile partnership with one of MFAT’s largest strategic partners by building robust, respectful, mutually beneficial, and trusting relationship.

Appointed to Council for International Development (CID) Development 101 Reference Group to review and provide expert advice on new learning course being established.

• Part of the senior leadership team with the Co-Directors of values-led research and communications consultancy, and contributed to the overall organisational strategy and programme development including long-term strategic plans, finance and business planning, key stakeholder relationships, impact evaluation, internal systems development.• Managed the strengthening of research strategy, methods, systems, and processes with a focus on iterative learning and inclusive approaches.• Managed the design and delivery of research projects through their lifecycle.• Collaborated with the Narrative Implementation team to translate and disseminate research insights.• Managed researchers including capability, professional development, and performance management.

• On local organising committee for the annual Human Development & Capability Association conference hosted by Massey University, Auckland 30 June to 2 July 2020.

• Led the qualitative data collection and analysis phase of the research, including interviews with senior leaders within MFAT and Trade and Enterprise.• Translated the findings and collaborated with co-researchers to produce the report "Collective resilience: New Zealand’s aid contribution in times of inequality and crises", launched to the sector in 2020.

• Co-taught international development research design and methods.• Coordinated and taught large undergraduate Introduction to Development Studies course.• Lectured and tutored undergraduate and postgraduate courses.• Gained Associate Fellow of the Higher Education qualification.• Researched, updated and wrote teaching and learning resources for courses at postgraduate and undergraduate levels - focused on climate change, conflict & development, and gender & development.• Created online Researchers' Handbook for postgraduate research students.• Designed and graded undergraduate and postgraduate assignments.• Supervised Masters students through their research process.• Examined Masters theses and research reports.• Mentored new international postgraduate students.• Managed Learning Management System.• Supervised course markers.

• Coordinated all aspects of course online and in-person, including Learning Management System.• Lectured and tutored.• Communicated with students in-person and online.• Designed and graded assessments.

• Completed PhD on 'Health justice for all: The development of alternative health system capabilities in the conflict-affected context of Shan State, Myanmar'.• Research focus: Myanmar; Capabilities Approach and Wellbeing; Health System Development; Health Justice; Community Health Workers; Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 3 Health); Fragile, Conflict & Violence-Affected Contexts; international aid architecture, state-building, peace-building; non-state armed groups; international non-governmental organisations; gender and development; volunteerism.• Obtained ethics approval for research with Massey Human Ethics Committee.• Used qualitative participatory research methods with a health workforce training programme in Shan State, Myanmar.• Conducted thematic qualitative data analysis.• Proficient using NVivo data analysis software.• Presented at international conferences on global development and health system development.

• Appointed to CID's Code of Conduct review group to assess the current accountability framework that NZ International NGOs gain accreditation in.

• Represented Circuit in wider global development networks.• Adaptive programme management; navigating complexity; emergent development• Monitoring, evaluation, research, learning, and accountability processes• Gender and development• Strategic direction• Policy development• Myanmar/Burma, Shan State• Development in conflict-affected contexts• Social entrepreneurship• Business and development• Grain saver bag technology to mitigate debt slavery and land grabbing• Farming cooperative banks• Coffee for opium replacement• Dairy project for community care

• Appointed to the NGO Reference group to provide feedback and strategic advice and offer views from the New Zealand NGO sector and in-country partners, in order to assist the New Zealand Aid Programme in its design of a new tailored approach to partnering with the NGO sector that: “supports sustainable development in developing countries, in order to reduce poverty and contributes to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world”.

• Built and maintained partnerships during visits to NZAID funded community development projects in Tanzania, Uganda, Mali and Niger.• Managed, monitored and evaluated NZAID funded community development projects.• Wrote grants and reports on NZAID funded community development projects.• Did forecasting, negotiating and reconciling budgets for NZAID funded community development projects.

• Did project planning and design for potential community health services.• Wrote proposals for Government and international funding of health services.• Conducted data analysis for research published in New Zealand Medical Journal.• Co-wrote article published in New Zealand Medical Journal.• Did strategic planning.

• Built and maintained healthy bilateral relationships with global project partners.• Managed, monitored, and evaluated community development projects in countries in Asia, Africa, Central and South America.• Selected projects and wrote proposals and reports for NZAID and private sector funded community d development projects.• Did forecasting, negotiating and reconciling budgets for NZAID and private sector funded community development projects.• Trained staff and tertiary students in global development 101, and gender and development education.• Helped strategise for new large-scale development programmes.• Represented World Vision New Zealand in wider global development networks.

• Helped manage communications with New Zealand sponsors and donors.• Helped design and roll out of new donor management IT system.• Administrated Child Sponsorship programme.• Trained staff in Customer Service roles and systems.