Philippa Nicholson

Experience

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  International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2006

  ICRC Health Delegate and Technical Advisor

  Health and gender delegate with human rights and protection responsibilities in a variety of conflict/post conflict and emergency settings in Africa and Asia, leading multi-disciplinary national and expatriate teams. Program manager of integrated WASH, Health Promotion, Detention, Immunisation, Nutrition, Maternal and Child Health and prevention of Gender Based Violence programs. Developed and facilitated the Expanded Program of Immunisation staff training for ICRC for 4 years. Provision of protection services in field and detention facilities, including implementation and monitoring of a detention based feeding program, advocacy and reporting of protection issues, negotiation of access to food, health and shelter for civilian populations. Extensive negotiation and advocacy with military and government representatives in conflict and post-conflict settings. Development of program and M&E frameworks, staff management of multi-disciplinary teams in complex conflict and post-conflict environments and development of best practice standards for ICRC health, particularly with WASH and EPI and Gender Based Violance. Show less

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  Department of Human Services, Victoria, Australia

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

  Senior Advisor Refugee Programs

  Managed development of the Regional Refugee Health and Wellbeing Strategic Plan and Advocacy Framework in the State of Victoria. Program adviser for Primary Health Care programs, including community health centres and NGO key liaison with Victorian State Government. Key adviser and government manager on prevention of Female Genital Mutilation (FARREP) program and the Refugee Nurse Program in the North West Region of Melbourne Australia. Chair of internal Government Refugee Health and Wellbeing Working Group. Show less

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  UNICEF

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

  Emergency Health and Protection Advisor

  UNICEF health and WASH advisor role during the Georgia IDP crisis. Provision of program support, advice and contract management regarding IDP camp set-up of health and WASH services. Co-facillitator of UNICEF WASH cluster for duration of crisis event. Liasion with UN and I/NGO partner agencies to ensure implementation of co-ordinated camp health, WASH, shelter and community focused responses. Negotiation and advice with national, local and military representatives.

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  Vision 2020 Australia

  Jan 2009 - May 2011

  Asia Pacific Consortium Manager

  Managed and represented a Peak Body Consortium of nine Australian NGO's working as key advocate lead between Australian Government and the Asia Pacific Region towards World Health Organisation goals (PNG, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Cambodia) across 14 health, development and gender programs with a budget of $15M AUD.Successful development of advocacy strategy and evaluation framework across 9 INGO/NGO to achieve collaborative programming.Responsible for set-up and co-ordination of governance, funds distribution, reporting and negotiation across an international Consortium of Australian based INGO's. Extensive partnership management and negotiation with Australian Government, Consortium and National Governments. Direct liaison with AusAID with responsibility for all contract, risk, financial and effectiveness reporting. Show less

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  Australian Civil-Military Centre

  May 2011 - Dec 2014

  Humanitarian Manager (Gender Lead)

  Responsible for the development and implementation of the Australia Governments gender and humanitarian program through effective management and team coordination to influence Australian Federal Government advocacy response systems.Subject matter expert and regional advocate of the Women, Peace and Security. Australian government representative successfully integrating gender and health outcomes into UN and Australian government statements and strategies (including Australia’s first National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security).Provider of expert policy, program and training advice to Australian and international governments, UN agencies and I/NGO's on health and gender subject matter, particularly implementing policy to practice in operational settings. Australian government representative at the UN Women Global Review on Implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions related to WPS. Humanitarian Co-ordinator international military exercise RIm of the Pacific (RIMPAC). Gender SME, policy advisor and trainer to Australian Federal Police, Defence and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Show less

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  UNICEF

  Jan 2015 - Jul 2015

  Regional Response Coordinator

  UNICEF representative for South-East Region of Sierra Leone (6 Districts) working in partnership with the Ministry of Social Welfare, UN agencies, INGO's and local organisations towards achievement of the National Strategy on the protection of Women and Children.Health and Advocacy Coordinator of Regional District Ebola Response Command Centre (DERC's).Responsible for informing National policy and advocacy development on National Policy on Prevention and Response to health systems strengthening.Advocacy liason for Women's agencies and Government sectors to facilitate implementation of gender related program's including prevention of SGBV and right to school for girls and boys and ending child marriage.Responsible for maintaining partnerships, contract monitoring and reporting on UNICEF Partnership Contract Arrangements (PCA's) across NGO partner agencies. Show less

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  ChildFund Australia

  Sept 2015 - Nov 2019

  Head of International Programs

  Member of the Senior Operations Leadership Team (SOLT) for ChildFund Australia responsible for managing global advocacy strategy, programs, policy and partners with a team of technical advisers and a suite of gender, development and health programs that implement directly across South East Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar) and the Pacific region (PNG, Timor Leste,Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru and Kiribati).Global Advocacy Taskforce Co-Chair ChildFund International and UN Sustainable Development Goal representative at UN SDG Forum enabling global advocacy influence across child health and protection outcomes and inclusion of statements into UN SDG statements.ChildFund Australia’s humanitarian manager for gender, emergency and disaster response and work across the Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) and the representative for the global ChildFund Alliance Humanitarian Alliance Coordination Unit (HACU).Managed strategic growth and transition of Country Offices, including change management, GEDSI, strengthening localisation approaches, establishment of regional program's and new partnerships. Show less

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  Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

  Dec 2019 - Dec 2023

  Head of Global Health

  RACS Head of Global Health leading a global not for profit agency that manages implementation of health and gender advocacy, training, mentoring and program delivery to improve health outcomes and enable health systems strengthening (HSS) across 15 countries in the Indo-Pacific Region. Lead development of Global Health fundraising and bequests strategy through management of Foundation for Surgery to enable donation growth and organisational sustainability. Grow partnerships with global donors, health bodies, philanthropic organisations and commercial business partners through proactive stakeholder mapping, business planning and financial analysis.Build relationships with global (WHO/WHA), national and regional government Ministry partners (DFAT, MFAT, USAID, SPC and Indo-Pacific) and INGO's/CSO's to enable program delivery and advocacy outcomes.Grow organisational capacity to achieve ANCP reaccreditation (2021) and ACNC compliance through establishment of a high performing Global Health Department.Establish gender, PSEAH and equity strategy and GEDSI integrated policy, program and MEL standards and frameworks.Lead Management of a volunteer deployment portfolio of over 200 surgical and allied health professionals across Australasia and 15 Asia-Pacific countries. Show less

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  Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

  Feb 2024 - now

  Director of Operations