Jacinta Spies

Program Coordinator, Human Rights Advocate, and Marriage Celebrant

Jacinta Spies is a community engagement consultant with a passion for travel, salsa dancing, and hiking. She studied Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) and Bachelor of International Studies (Journalism) at the University of Technology in Sydney, where she is currently a fifth-year student. During her studies, she spent a year abroad in Chile, traveling, hiking, and dancing. She then interned in Colombia with a North American PR company before returning to Australia on a New Colombo Plan scholarship. After completing her degree, she became a consultant in Sydney, focusing on community engagement for Australia's infrastructure.

Jacinta's skills include community engagement, stakeholder management, copywriting, and journalism. She has worked as a tour guide, a stakeholder engagement coordinator for a bushfire clean-up program, a community engagement consultant for a consulting firm, a PR intern, and a freelance copywriter and writer. Her interests include travel, hiking, salsa dancing, and improving communication skills.

Experience

Program Coordinator at Australian Lutheran World Service (July 2020 - Present)

DMEL Coordinator - CAN DO Consortium at Caritas Australia (January 2019 - June 2020), Project Officer - Contractor at NSW Health (February 2018 - January 2019), Project and Policy Officer Intern at United Nations ESCAP (October 2017 - December 2017), Policy and Project Officer at Authority for Children, Family and Youth (August 2016 - August 2017), Project Intern at 40K Group (July 2016), Program Support Officer (APS4) - National Information and Referral Service at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (July 2014 - June 2016)

Education

Master’s Degree in International Relations and Affairs from University of Sydney (2013 - 2016), Bachelor’s Degree in Political Studies and Sociology, B+ from University of Auckland (2008 - 2011), High School at Pukekohe High School (2003 - 2008)