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Based in the NT Parliament, providing political and strategic leadership to a Minister who covered 14 portfolios over a 3 year period; also leading her team of Policy Advisers, media staff and departmental liaison officers. She is now Leader of the Opposition.

FinCap (The National Building Financial Capability Trust) is a new nationwide organisation dedicated to serving and strengthening New Zealand's network of financial capability and budget advice agencies. Those local services support people facing urgent and deep financial problems to manage their debts and successfully find ways forward.

Leading work in Tuhoe-Te Uru Taumatua to implement the education, health, housing and welfare elements of Tuhoe's 40 year Blueprint, working with Crown agencies, Tribals and community agencies. The role is highly strategic, working with Crown officials, Tribal Authority leaders and internal teams to forge approaches which maximise Tuhoe autonomy, address evidenced need and are sustainable.

Management of Labour Party central operation, reporting to its New Zealand Council.This intense role involved a complex range of high-level and often high-profile activity. I led an office team of eight salaried staff and a volunteer-based organisation of 62,000 members organised in over 400 branches, electorate/constituency bodies, hubs, sectors and affiliated unions. My role also involved extensive contact with the Party’s 32 Members of Parliament. In the three years of my incumbency our Party headquarters led the organisation of three by-elections (an unusually high number for New Zealand), the introduction of a democratic system for electing our Parliamentary leader (and the first two rollouts of that system), a citizens-initiated referendum and a General Election, together with candidate selection . This all took place in the context of rolling organisational reformMy role consisted of seven distinct but inter-related elements: Leading conception and implementation of longer term organisational change following the Party’s 2011-12 Organisational Review;Servicing of the National Council (governing body); Management of staff and oversight of finances; compliance with regulatory requirementsI line managed six staff, covering organisational, administrative, governance, finance and fundraising functions. Intense operationalisation for membership recruitment, fundraising, conference organisation, candidate selection rounds, election events and General Election preparation and campaigning;Developing and sustaining relationships with members, constituent organisations, volunteers and external stakeholders.Involvement in policy-making Effective communication of the Party’s position, including extensive media liaison

I worked three days a week with the South African sex worker movement September 2011 to end May 2012, mentoring and advising the process of constructing and delivering a campaign and lobby for the decriminalisation of sex work. This had a media, African National Congress, general Parliamentary and internal agency focus. Since April 2011 I also undertook varied and senior consultancy activity on a one-off basis including:• Facilitation of a meeting of HIV campaign leaders from across Africa to plan direct lobby engagement with Ministers of Health;• Report-writing and background research for the first two face-to-face meetings of the Global Task Team on Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (of HIV), and of the first African regional meeting on generation of domestic resources for HIV and AIDS, in a climate of reducing donor funding; • Supporting submission production among African sex worker groups for the UN Global Commission on HIV and the Law;• Speech-writing for African leaders speaking at a special UN General Assembly session on HIV and AIDS;• Organising an engagement programme with South African Parliamentarians for a global NGO assessment team;• Conference organising an October 2012 global human rights convening for sex workers in Sydney;• Re-editing of key UNAIDS regional documentation to improve style, consistency and accessibility;• Researching and authoring case studies on HIV financing in key African countries for a global UNAIDS publication; and• Reviewing progress in HIV prevention in Namibia, and recommending new ways forward, through conducting interviews, presenting at a national HIV workshop, rapporteuring the workshop and authoring a short and sharp final report.

The World AIDS Campaign works to stimulate and support activity by civil society to bring the need for action on HIV and AIDS to those with political power or influence. My role was based in the main office of the agency in Cape Town, South Africa. I managed a team which had responsibility for delivering this work in countries and regions; the main programme built the ability of networks of people living with HIV to mount evidence-based campaigning and was delivered in partnership with the Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+). Other programmes which I managed ranged from country-based initiatives in the Middle East/North Africa region to planning a variety of key civil society-focussed roles with the Global Commission on HIV and the Law; from successful backroom lobbying for the establishment of an HIV/AIDS Committee in the South African Parliament to a regional and country-based parliamentarian-civil society partnership around HIV prevention in Southern Africa. I was also a member of the Management Team of the organisation. My specific responsibilities as Global Programme Manager included:Programme coordination, strategising, planning and development; specifically, moulding innovative programmes in response to HIV epidemics, notably in the Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East/North Africa (MENA) regions;Messaging, media liaison;Staff management;Fundraising for the expansion of the Global Programme, funder liaison; andLiaison with the Programme's global and regional partner agencies.

SENIOR GOVERNMENT WHIP 2005-8In this crucial political management and coordination role, working very closely with the Prime Minister and our whole Labour team, I maximised collective and individual performance, and minimised risk. I allocated Parliamentary resources and opportunities, and managed day-to-day party coalition relationships. I also had oversight of ten local Labour Parliamentary offices. I led international delegations and delivered training to parliaments in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville;Timor Leste; Cook Islands; I also delivered an address with Transparency International in PNG on combating corruption. RESULTS-FOCUSSED POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ON CHALLENGING ISSUES 1996-2008As sponsor of the Prostitution Reform Bill I was the political leader of a successful 7 year sex work law reform process; and was also lead politician in the development, promotion and enactment of the Civil Union Bill (2004). My role was to mould the campaigns, and engage with colleagues to ensure the integrity of the legislation.BUILDING NGO CAPACITY TO C AMPAIGN, ADVOCATE AND LOBBY 1996-2008 I designed and delivered capacitating training modules to NGOs and individual activists on the operation of New Zealand Parliamentary democracy and the development of organisational lobby strategies and skills . URBAN POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND INDIVIDUAL ADVOCACY 1996-2008For 12 years I represented a diverse inner city electorate of 60 000 people. This in-depth results-based work involved individual/agency advocacy, flowing through to the planning and delivery of issue-based campaigns. I had a nationwide reputation as a strong, active and locally focussed MP who engaged with tough issues and worked for community consensus. FORMAL PARLIAMENTARY ROLES I chaired the Justice and Electoral (Select) Committee 1999-2005 and advocated to Ministers/built consensus among Committee members as necessary.

Coordination, leadership and chairing of a senior cross-party Parliamentary Select Committee, which did not have a government majority; management of the scrutiny of draft legislation and of public consultation processes; negotiation with Ministers and other political party representatives over legislative amendments; leading independent inquiries on law reform, local and nationwide electoral law (after each General Election) and justice issues; consensus-building among committee members. Media and NGO liaison on contentious matters. Policy spokespersonships 1996-9 ; Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) 2002-2005 Opposition spokespersonships in Human Rights and in Housing, involving significant NGO engagement, policy development and promotion. PPS to the Attorney-General & Ministers of Justice, and Community and Voluntary Sector. I focused on stakeholder engagement, policy development and the provision of tactical political advice.

I undertook strategic, human resources and organisational management, project development and marketing of an agency providing free legal advice to 10 000 people and NGOs annually. I managed a staff team of ten paid and 150 volunteer students and lawyers.

Production of reseach around the proposed Human Rights Act, which became AIDS Foundation submissions. Governance as a Board member.

I was inaugural lead staff member of high-level professional lobby group for lesbian and gay human rights focused on Parliament, political parties and the media. Through it I developed and led the first sexuality rights lobby focused on the European Union (then Commission).

I focused on governance leadership, initial headquarters establishment and, as first paid coordinator, inaugural staff management (of a team of six) in a representative, partnership-focused NGO covering 360 agencies promoting and developing volunteering in diverse local communities.

Political representation of inner city communities, and chairing and membership of Council Committees.

Joint management of an NGO providing information on and development of volunteering opportunities

Management of a community-based centre