About the Fellowship
Government/Sector leadership capabilities for place-based policy and delivery
We know what it takes to create effective place-based service systems that support young people into work, yet we struggle to achieve this in practice. Consequently, many promising initiatives fail to produce scalable youth employment outcomes.
Much of this implementation struggle can be attributed to leadership capability gaps. Too often our for-purpose leaders and government stewards lack the support and training to effectively implement and sustain place-based employment system reforms.
Grounded in Tasmania’s state-wide, place-based Youth Jobs Strategy, Shelley’s fellowship will bridge this implementation gap by working together with UTAS to develop a leadership framework and training program to better enable effective place-based youth employment initiatives.
About Shelley
Shelley Mallett has held senior leadership roles in the University and NFP sector including as a Professorial Fellow in Social Policy, Director of Australia’s largest Social Policy and Research Centre in the NFP sector and Acting CEO of an NFP. She has distinct expertise and experience working in the nexus between research, policy and practice spanning systems change, including place to population interventions, policy design and implementation, research, evaluation, monitoring, program design and higher education teaching and mentoring.
She has applied these skills to a range of social policy fields, especially employment, education and training, youth transitions, housing and homelessness, early childhood education and care, family support, social security, disability and poverty policy and practice reform. She has actively contributed to both national and state-based policy and practice reforms in these areas through participation on a host of ministerial and other advisory boards, policy roundtables and summits.
To her research and policy skills Shelley brings a deep love of practice and service model design that stems from earlier roles as a Speech Pathologist and Parent- Adolescent Mediator.