Claire is an experienced and professional facilitator, project manager and technical writer. She has 18+ years’ experience working on a range of projects across international and local contexts. Claire’s work is collaborative, intersectional and committed to social justice and human rights.
Claire has managed projects in the areas of health promotion, training and development, inclusive and intersectional practice, gambling-related harm, community legal education, positive bystander intervention, gender equity, and gendered violence prevention, early intervention and response. She has worked with a wide range of target audiences, including gender equity and prevention practitioners, workplaces, health, community and local government workforces, faith and community leaders, and newly arrived communities.
She has been engaged by leading national and Victorian gender equity, primary prevention and health organisations to support strategic planning, governance, policy translation, workforce development, program design, monitoring and evaluation, and training and resource development.
Expertise
- Project design, implementation and evaluation
- Strategic planning and design
- Training development and facilitation (accredited and non-accredited)
- Learning resource development
- Facilitating consultations, co-design processes, and monitoring and evaluation activities
- Needs analyses, option papers, scoping studies, policy analysis, literature reviews, impact reports and background papers
- Workforce development and capacity-building
- Grant and tender writing
Recent clients include:
- Our Watch
- Respect Victoria
- Victorian Women’s Health Services Network
- Women’s Health Goulburn North East
- Women’s Health Victoria
- Women with Disabilities Victoria
- World Health Organization – Western Pacific Region
Recent work includes:
WHSN Impact Report 2025 and Understanding Health Promotion companion animation (Victorian Women’s Health Services Network 2025)
Men in focus: Consultation report (Our Watch 2024)
Small change, Big Impact: Two years on (Victorian Women’s Health Services Network 2024)
Small Change, Big Impact: Women’s Health Services Network Collective Impact Report (Victorian Women’s Health Services Network 2023)
Celebrating women’s voices in the Western Pacific Region: leadership, diversity and health (World Health Organization 2021)
Towards Gender Transformative Change: A guide for practitioners (Women’s Health Victoria 2019)
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