Neil Starkie
Perth
Summary
High level commercial & NFP experience in the UK and Australia. Maintains a calm, positive, professional attitude even in the most difficult situations. Creative and innovative thinker, developing many new ideas and initiatives and seeing them through to implementation. Excellent emotional intelligence forming the basis for empathetic, servant leadership. Passion for mission, particularly supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged people. Able to develop, grow and sustain mutually beneficial long term relationships at all levels. Transformational leader growing and transforming commercial and NFP operations, with comprehensive managerial acumen, offering vision and motivational acumen.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
GM Strategic Partnerships & Growth
St Bart's
06.2021 - 09.2024
- Company Overview: St Bart's is an Anglican agency, providing safe and supportive accommodation and services for vulnerable people at risk of or experiencing homelessness, mental health challenges, trauma and hardship, through transitional accommodation, mental health services, social housing and homeless aged care services
- Leading and delivering the Partnerships & Relationships priority of the current strategic plan
- Developing partnerships and relationships to raise the profile, improve engagement, grow fundraising and enhance service delivery for St Bart's to be a leader in the homelessness sector
- Lead the co-design and development of significant real estate assets, including identifying new opportunities to develop social housing
- Lead innovation within the organisation
- Lead strategy and business planning to ensure delivery of the strategic plan
- Lead, develop and implement communication and engagement strategies
- Develop a Fundraising Strategy and source, develop and respond to fundraising, tender and grant opportunities across Government, Corporate and Philanthropic sectors
- Developed the business case for 56 new social housing units and an 80 bed homeless aged care facility to be built in East Perth, successfully securing $35m from Federal Government
- Created the Say G'Day campaign to encourage the public to positively engage with rough sleepers
- Developed and implemented new partnership framework, fundraising strategy, Anglican connection plan, communications strategy, government engagement strategy and stakeholder management plan
- Created new marketing and communications collateral, including refreshed website, new video content, annual reports and currently filming a documentary about the reality of homelessness
- Implemented a new organisational business planning
- Developed and implemented a partnership model with private and social enterprise to offer employment opportunities to people living at St Bart's aligned to the St Bart's mission.
- Created and embodied a positive, creative work environment delivering exceptional team morale and productivity levels.
CEO / EGM Strategy, Communications & Assurance
Access Housing / Housing Choices Australia
02.2020 - 06.2021
- Company Overview: Access Housing Australia was one of Western Australia's leading not-for-profit providers of Community Housing, managing, purchasing and developing secure, sustainable and affordable homes for some of the most vulnerable people in society. On 1 July 2020, AHA completed a merger with Melbourne based, Housing Choices Australia to form the second largest community housing provider in Australia, with approximately $1bn of managed housing assets across WA, NSW, Victoria, SA and Tasmania
- As CEO of AHA, leading and overseeing consistent high quality delivery of housing, tenant, property, asset management and development services
- Ensuring compliance and adherence to service level and funding agreements, regulatory and performance benchmarks, relevant legislative requirements, reporting requirements and budgets
- Assessing potential partners, suppliers, or customers of interest with a view to future business relationships
- Ensuring effective oversight and operation of corporate systems, policies and processes to meet regulatory and contractual requirements
- Providing high level advice and support to the board, committees and management team on community housing and corporate matters
- Leading the development and execution of the AHA business strategy and plan
- Advocacy, representing AHA at public events, sector forums and government engagement
- Led Access Housing through to legal completion of the merger with HCA
- Leading merger integration processes post completion
- National responsibility post merger for Strategy, Communications and Assurance, including compliance, risk management and internal audit.
- Initiated new national Risk Management and Quality Assurance Frameworks
- Developed a new national Partnership Framework
- Introduced ‘Value for Money' and ‘ESG' as business development & efficiency concepts, encompassing social procurement aligned to UNDP sustainable development goals
General Manager
Uniting Church in the City
10.2013 - 02.2020
- Company Overview: UCIC is the largest congregation within the Uniting Church in Australia (WA) holding the beneficial ownership of a significant commercial land holding in Perth's CBD with a value in the order of $250million and responsibility for three heritage listed churches
- UCIC also operate several mission programs, oversight of which sat with the General Manager
- The largest mission program is the unique Trinity School for Seniors, operating five days a week, offering 115 courses to 850 students all of whom are aged 60 and above
- Conceived, developed and implemented the 'Purpose driven Property' concept adopted across the UCIC portfolio
- Created the successful ‘Letters to Perth' campaign as a positive response to the infamous ‘Meth zombie' media story
- Developed UCIC's sustainability strategy resulting in winning the Property Council of Australia's Sustainability award
- Property Council of Australia Excellence in Marketing award
- Led and developed UCIC's inaugural Strategic Plan (2015 - 2018) and subsequent review in 2019
- Created and implemented a market leading Strategic Asset Management Plan
- Developed and implemented a new Risk Management policy and framework and Crisis Management framework, both adapted for use by the wider church
- Developed and implemented a Communications Strategy and framework to coordinate and improve internal & external communications (including social media and website development)
- Initiated innovative social enterprise and outreach programs to address homelessness, long term unemployment, mental health & suicide prevention, disability, refugee & asylum seeker issues, including creating Change Please Australia and supporting sustainability initiatives
- Developed and implemented a wide range of policies and procedures, including UCIC's ‘Protection of the Individual' policy & procedure, (Protection of children, vulnerable people and the elderly) and advocated at a national level for elder abuse to be elevated for national discussion, working collaboratively with the Catholic Church's Safeguarding project team
Director
Savills plc
11.2000 - 10.2013
- Company Overview: Savills are global market leaders in provision of real estate transactional and consultancy services to public and private sectors, listed on London Stock Exchange
- Member of five person UK National Industrial Executive Committee tasked with developing and implementing strategy to establish Savills as market leader in Industrial sector nationally
- Specific responsibility for national industrial research which included presentation to clients either individually or larger, open forum
- Head of Midlands Industrial Division, responsible for client relationship management, winning new business, including client specific property strategies, identifying strategic land development opportunities, negotiating acquisitions, disposals, pre-commitments on behalf of developers, financial institutions, occupiers and government agencies
- Developed UK's most comprehensive industrial market research database used extensively to advise regional, national and international clients and quoted extensively by UK national property press
Education
BSc (Hons) - Land Management
De Montfort University
Skills
- Business strategy, planning & execution
- Marketing, communications & campaign development
- Business development & growth
- Stakeholder engagement
- Tender / competitive bid submissions
- Advocacy
- Partnership development
- Mission & outreach development
- Culture improvement
- Governance and compliance
- Risk management
- Policy development
- Fundraising (Government/Corporate/Philanthropic)
- Budget management
Governance
- Board Director / Company Secretary, Change Please Australia, 01/19, 01/23
- Committee Member, UCAWA Property Committee, 01/19, present
- Board Member, Girls Friendly Society Inc., 01/19, 01/23
- Board Member, Street Friends WA, 01/18, 01/19
- Commission Member, UCAWA CCSC, 01/15, 01/19
General interests
- Volunteering - Lifeline telephone suicide crisis support volunteer
- Volunteer board roles
- Football - Played at semi-professional level
- Cricket - Play cricket and coached juniors
- Cycling - Charity rides and cycle recreationally
- Hockey - Coach, play & support my two sons to elite level
- Golf - Play social golf
- Parish - Safeguarding/Property/Strategic planning committee
Key Qualifications
- Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)
- Professional Member, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
- BSc (Hons) Land Management (Class 2:1), De Montfort University
- Australian Institute of Management - Advanced Management Program
Timeline
GM Strategic Partnerships & Growth
St Bart's
06.2021 - 09.2024
CEO / EGM Strategy, Communications & Assurance
Access Housing / Housing Choices Australia
02.2020 - 06.2021
General Manager
Uniting Church in the City
10.2013 - 02.2020
Director
Savills plc
11.2000 - 10.2013
BSc (Hons) - Land Management
De Montfort University
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