Melissa is a critical thinker with a passion for human services and meaningful community engagement.
Melissa brings diverse experience in the government and community services sectors, working across Nous’ public policy and strategy practices. Melissa combines strong research and stakeholder engagement skills with empathy and enthusiasm to support complex policy and program evaluation and organisational transformation.
Influential work
- Worked with the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal to conduct a multi-year evaluation of an initiative under the Future Drought Fund, which involved extensive engagement with regional and remote communities and agricultural organisations across Australia
- Supported the evaluation of key government initiatives targeting a subset of the disability cohort in Australia, spanning complex disability, health and housing policy
- Designed an operating model and implementation roadmap for a national disability services provider to achieve better outcomes for their customers in the disability sector
Outside of Nous
Prior to joining Nous, Melissa was a Policy Officer at the Department of Social Services, where she contributed to the implementation of Australia’s Disability Strategy. She has also worked in NDIS plan management and procurement in the pharmaceuticals industry.
Melissa completed a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Global Studies from Monash University. During her studies, she completed a semester at the University of Sussex.
In her spare time...
Melissa enjoys corralling actors as a musical theatre stage manager and is a keen tap dancer. She also loves taking language classes and planning her next travel adventure to practice.