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Jane Stevens Jane Stevens: Manager,
Community Advisory Services  Ko Aoraki te mauka Ko Takitimu te waka
Ko Waitaki te awa Ko Tahu Potiki te takata Ko Ruahikihiki te hapu Ko Kai Tahu te iwi Ko Otâkou te marae Ko Jane Stevens taku ingoa Jane is manager of our community advisory services. She has worked in community development for the past 30 years. Before joining Community Waikato she worked as a Community Advisor in the Hamilton south and east communities. She has played a key role in the evolution of Ngaruawahia Community House, Melville –Te Whare Kokonga Community House, and Hamilton East Waimarie Community House.
Jane moved to Hamilton from the Wairarapa where she was manager of the highly successful Wairarapa Polytechnic Community Skills Certificate programme, a pioneering programme run as a collaborative programme between the polytechnic and local Community Workers Association. She also played a key role in establishing and governing Southern Links, a capacity building organisation working in the rural south Wairarapa community. Before working with the polytechnic, Jane was employed as National Training Officer for the performing arts sector. Her main role was to establish an industry training organisation to provide opportunities for back-stage workers to undertake apprenticeships and ongoing professional development. She has also worked as National Coordinator of Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa (the national unemployed and beneficiaries movement) and was instrumental in establishing the Wellington Unemployed Workers Union, which evolved into the Wellington Peoples Centre.
 Jane and her whanau have lived in Ngaruawahia for the past 11 years. She hails from Oteputi – Dunedin, but has spent most of her adult life in Wellington, the Wairarapa and now the Waikato. Jane has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Not-For-Profit Management at the University of Waikato, specialising in the area of employment equity and conditions in the not-for-profit sector. She is currently involved in running a national pilot project exploring employment conditions, practices and relationships in the sector, strategies to improve the employment practices and increase recognition of the value of the work undertaken in the sector. |