Non-profit sector assignments
Since 1985, Jean has worked with a wide range of organisations in organisational reviews, committee/board development and assessment, management reviews, strategic and business planning, marketing, amalgamation, strategic alliances, measurable consumer outcomes, needs-based planning, evaluation of service design and delivery, submission preparation and tendering, and in-house training and development.
Present and past nonprofit client organisations and sectors include:
- Aboriginal health
- Aboriginal housing
- Acquired brain injury
- Acute health
- Adult and community education
- Aged care
- Aids, hepatitis and sexual health
- Alcohol and drug addiction
- Allied health
- Business Development
- Carer support
- Child care
- Children’s services
- Commonwealth Government
- Community health
- Community housing
- Crisis respite
- Cultural diversity
- Disability services/employment
- Domestic and family violence
- Early childhood services
- Elder Abuse
- Employment services
- Entrepreneurial enterprises
- Family services
- Foster-care
- Grief and bereavement
- Health care networks
- Housing Sector Reform, Victoria
- Kindergarten/Pre-school
- Local Government
- Neighbourhood/Community houses and centres
- Palliative and hospice care
- Parent education
- Parent support
- Post-primary education
- Psychiatric services
- Public sector services
- Rural services
- Sexual assault
- Statutory authorities
- Special education
- State Governments
- Telephone counselling
- Transitional housing management
- Universities
- Women’s refuges
- Youth and mature-aged unemployment
- Youth homelessness
Action-research projects in the nonprofit sector:
Governance Project, 1989-1996 – identifying the training and support needs of voluntary committees and boards in Victorian ‘needs-based’ organisations and writing a 300-page training manual for voluntary committees and boards, The Craft of Managing, in collaboration with CIDA Inc., and funded by (then) Community Services Victoria.
Leadership Project, 1992-1993 – researching and writing a manual for directors of boards of the 150+ sheltered workshops in Australia to encourage extension of employment services for people with intellectual disabilities from sheltered to supported and competitive employment in integrated commercial settings – in collaboration with the National Technical Assistance Unit, with the (then) Mt Eliza College of Management.
Reference Manual Project, 1994-1995 – researching and writing a manual setting out the roles and responsibilities of voluntary committees and boards of organisations providing disability employment services ranging from open employment to enclaves – in collaboration with the Commonwealth Department of (then) Health and Family Services, Disability Services Program.
