Claire is an experienced and professional facilitator, program developer, project manager, writer and editor. With more than a decade’s experience working on a range of projects across international and local contexts, Claire’s work is collaborative, intersectional and committed to gender equality, equity and human rights.
Her broad experience in a range of settings has led to the development of particular expertise in strategic planning, partnership management, governance, communication, facilitating co-design processes, and managing tight timeframes and funding constraints.
Expertise
- Project design, management and evaluation
- Strategic planning and design
- Training development and facilitation (accredited and non-accredited)
- Participatory community development design
- Community of Practice and consultation facilitation
- Co-design processes
- Needs analyses, option papers, policy analysis, scoping studies, literature reviews and background papers
- Workforce development and capacity-building
- Grant and tender writing
- Content writing and copywriting
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 equality, prevention of violence against women, and family violence prevention, early intervention and response.
She has worked with a wide range of target audiences, including practitioners, growth and interface communities, and have extensive experience delivering bicultural projects with refugee and asylum seeker communities, migrant and newly arrived communities, and communities in the remote Pacific.
Recent clients include:
- Our Watch
- Women with Disabilities Victoria
- Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health
- Domestic Violence Victoria
- WHO – Western Pacific Region
- Gender Equity Victoria
- Domestic Violence Victoria
- Women’s Health Victoria
- Fitzroy Legal Service
- Oxfam Australia (Solomon Islands)
- CARE International in Vanuatu
Recent work includes:
Unpacking violence: A storytelling resource for understanding non-physical forms of abuse and the gendered drivers of violence against women (Our Watch 2019)
Towards gender transformative change: a guide for practitioners (Women’s Health Victoria 2019)
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