The Institute of Public Administration is here to support you, our members and all public sector employees in their Professional Development as well as to promote advancing excellence within sector. Our team is able to assist you with your professional development needs and explore ways to help you further succeed in your career.
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Alison is the Institute's Executive Director and responsible for the total management and effectiveness of the organisation, whilst also ensuring that its relationship with Council and IPAA WA members is strong, valued and meeting each ones specific needs. Alison, originally from Scotland, has worked mainly in the Private Sector and brings a wealth of experience to her role especially in business development, relationship marketing and event management. She loves to walk her scruffy mutt, Fraser, every morning and reads extensively – anything from personal development books to ‘whodunits’!
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Joanne plays an important role as she develops the overall program for IPAA WA – overseeing all the events and training. Joanne’s the person to see if you’ve got suggestions for training that will add value to IPAA WA’s current program or if you’ve got ideas, or can recommend great speakers, for our topical seminars and workshops.
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Amy works closely with Joanne in managing the annual Learning and Development Program and is the main point-of-contact for all of our training courses. This includes coordinating the core training program and the customisation of these courses for delivery of in-house training for agencies. Amy can work with you to develop tailor-made training to meet your individual organisation or department’s learning and development needs. After living for a few years in the land of beer and chocolate – otherwise known as Belgium - Amy has re-adjusted to the blue skies of Perth. Amy can be found either with her nose in a book on the bus or dancing tango by night.  |
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Natalie manages the operational components for all IPAA WA events. Her main role is to put every piece of the puzzle together to deliver professional, well run and seamlessly managed events to all our members and non members within the public sector. In particular she manages venues, multimedia presentations needs and logistics.
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As the Marketing & Communications Officer here at IPAA WA, Karan manages and constantly updates our website, and promotes our events and training programs. He is also our in-house copywriter and graphic designer. Karan is the self proclaimed DJ at the IPAA WA office, and leaves the rest of the office with no choice but to listen to his sometimes shocking music collection. He also likes to refer to himself as a MasterChef (another self proclaimed title)... A hardcore foodie, Karan believes in the saying "Don't eat to live... live to eat!" |
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Michelle is our Events Coordinator and comes to us from AEG Ogden, His Majesty’s Theatre where she was an Operations Supervisor. Michelle holds a Diploma of Events Management along with a Diploma of Business and works closely with Natalie ensuring all our Training Courses and Events run smoothly. A keen cook, Michelle’s specialities include Italian and Indian food igniting the competitive spirit in Karan... Rumour has it a cook off is being planned in the near future. A natural blonde, Michelle now flaunts brown hair to save herself from being a victim of blonde jokes. |
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Michelle aka MJ, our Office Administrator comes to us all the way from South Africa. A proud mother of two, Michelle is responsible for all the admin duties here at IPAA WA. When not frantically working away or answering the phone, she can be seen sitting at our front desk sipping "Organic Chai".
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