Our Leadership.

Prior to her work with Uniting Church services, Robyn held CEO and executive positions in health and local government in Victoria and South Australia.  Many of those roles involved leading major organisational change.

Robyn commenced her career as a registered nurse and holds both Bachelor and Masters’ degrees in Social Work and a Masters of Business Administration. She is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Robyn is currently the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Leap In! Australia, a non-executive Director of the Australian Psychological Society, a non-executive Director of East Melbourne Primary Health Network and a Director of Western Health.

Formerly a crisis intervention counsellor, Mark has extensive leadership experience in large scale business turnaround, change management, strategic planning and dealing with conflict.

Mark was a recipient of the Williamson Community Leadership program and was awarded the St James Ethics Centre Fairfax Fellowship and the University of Melbourne Asia-Link Business Leaders Scholarship.

Mark is Chair of the Board subcommittee for Finance, Investment and Property and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Linda lives in regional Victoria and primarily works with the not for profit health and community services sector. Linda works with organisations who have a focus in the areas of community health, disability, women’s health, aged care, sexual assault services, Aboriginal services and alcohol and drug services.

For nearly 20 years Linda has worked as an accreditation assessor and is committed to assisting organisations continually improve and ensure that the services they provide are accessible, safe, strive for best practice and that all services meet the needs of our diverse community.

Peter was a former Chair and a Board member of Prahran Mission and is a former member of the Council of Elders at the Toorak Uniting Church. He is passionate about ensuring that those in need of help have a voice and are heard.

Having retired as a partner with a national corporate law firm in 2017, she continues to provide consulting services to support relevant sector clients.
Her industry expertise covers aged care, health and community services, affordable housing and Indigenous communities. She has considerable experience in structuring and strategic advice to philanthropic entities.

After more than 30 years in legal practice, Heather has now transitioned to full time company director across sectors that provide for the wellbeing of individuals and communities through social and community infrastructure.

Her current board directorships include:
Uniting in NSW.ACT – Chair; Australian Regional and Remote Community Services Ltd (a subsidiary of UnitingCare Qld) – Director; Queensland Rail – Director; Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service – Board Member; National Affordable Housing Consortium Ltd – Director and Chair, Governance and Remuneration Committee; Epic Good Foundation – Chair
Other advisory roles include:
Queensland Family and Child Commission – Advisory Council Member; Australian Charities and Not for Profit Commission – Advisory Board Member; Community Services Industry Alliance Ltd –Chair of Community Services Reform Council

Heather is currently Chair of Uniting’s Governance and Key Relationships Committee, having had a lifelong involvement with the Uniting Church in various governance roles as a layperson within local, Presbytery, Synod and Assembly context.

Grant has extensive Board experience, including on the Refugee Council of Australia and he currently sits on the Dialogue on Forced Migration, which includes Australian and regional governments.

Grant has a strong commitment and connection to the work of the Uniting Church and Uniting in Victoria and Tasmania in its work to further social justice and community care for all in the community, including as Manager for 7 years at Uniting Care (Hotham Mission’s Asylum Seeker Project), winning the Australian Human Rights Award in developing community support and housing programs for asylum seeker children and families in detention.

John has held seven executive positions with the Uniting Church Synod of Victoria and Tasmania for over thirty years. The positions held included Synod Administration, Resource allocation and Fundraising, Executive Director Resources Commission, Associate Synod Secretary, and before retiring was Director of Property and Insurance Services, Synod Property Officer and Secretary of the Property Trusts of Victoria and Tasmania. Also, he was a member of the UCA Assembly Finance Committee for twenty-five years. A former member of the Fundraising Institute of Australia, and the Australian Institute of Management and has a Graduate Diploma of Organisation Behaviour.

Before entering parliament in 1999, she was the Director of Justice and Social Responsibility in the Synod of Victoria, which provided children, youth, family and aged care services as well as social justice advocacy.

Bronwyn has considerable governance experience at national and state level. She has chaired the Boards of Western Heath, the South Australian Urban Renewal Authority (Renewal SA) and UnitingCare Australia and has been a Board member of Australian Health Policy Collaboration, Leap In! and Uniting NSW.ACT.

Bronwyn is a lifelong member of the Uniting Church in Australia.