Julie Nyland
Julie has a lengthy work history in both the community and public sectors, having held positions in several sectors of the community services industry including child care, crisis accommodation, community development, and housing sectors, the Department of Housing and local government.
Prior to joining Bradfield Nyland Group in 1997, Julie was a lecturer in Community Management at the University of Technology, where she had been since 1989. At UTS she had undertaken consultancy and research through the Centre for Australian Community Organisations (CACOM) and her private consultancy work. She coordinated the undergraduate programs in Community Management, and developed the Bachelor of Arts in Community Management, Faculty of Business.
Over the past ten years she has undertaken a number of significant research projects into aspects of the community sector, including the management support needs of community sector organisations (national study), community management models and processes, contracting relationships with government, quality management processes in community based organisations, and training provision and needs in the community services industry.
She has regularly presented workshops, seminars, and conference papers on a range of community management issues, and is the author of a number of publications dealing with community management, including alternative approaches to the "classic" community management model.
Her areas of expertise include:
- Evaluation of human services programs and community based organisations
- Governance and management development and capability building
- Organisational reviews, development and restructures
- Systems analysis and design
- Financial and risk management
- Business, strategic and operational planning
- Social and action research
- Design and development of training programs, competency curricula, and resource kits
- Facilitation and negotiation
- Design of web based platforms, portals and interactive resources
Julie Nyland is a graduate in Arts from the University of NSW, with a Doctorate in Sociology from Macquarie University, NSW.