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Sonia Makings

Casino,NSW

Summary

I am seeking a full-time position with a long-term view of staying with the company for a long period of time. I am enthusiastic, willing to learn and enjoy the challenge of exceeding expectations set either by myself or my employer.

Experienced with coordinating and managing multiple projects simultaneously. Utilizes effective communication and organizational skills to ensure seamless project execution. Track record of implementing process improvements and achieving project milestones.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Pirru Thangkuray Program Manager

NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Inc.
01.2023 - Current
  • Adhere to all reporting timelines
  • Oversee all staff and employment
  • Liaise with all stakeholders
  • Lead and delegate any relevant information
  • Developing and implementing strategy for the program team
  • Leading creation of the program management plan
  • Overseeing all activities associated with the program to ensure the program achieves its goals
  • Identifying and understanding program objectives
  • Establishing key milestones and goals
  • Developing timelines
  • Assessing the interdependencies between projects
  • Creating and maintaining budgets
  • Identifying opportunities for improvement
  • Developing programs that meet the organization's long-term needs
  • Writing proposals for funding
  • Managing the program’s budget
  • Managing risks and issues and taking corrective measurements
  • Coordinating the projects and their interdependencies
  • Managing and utilizing resources across projects
  • Managing stakeholders’ communication
  • Maintaining program documentation
  • Facilitate all aspects of the Pirru Thangkuray program within the appointed school site
  • Nurture culture, wellbeing, and spirit to increase self-determination and engagement of Pirru Thangkuray participants
  • Lead and deliver fun, Cultural Engagement activities that support Aboriginal and other students
  • Establish a culturally safe and inclusive Pirru Thangkuray space
  • Build students’ self-esteem, self-confidence, cultural identity, sense of well-being and support students to realise their academic potential and help develop it
  • Design and collaborate with schools along with other Project Officers to design programs and opportunities to engage Pirru Thangkuray participants
  • Work collaboratively with school executives, Aboriginal Education Officers, and Aboriginal Education teams to ensure effective communication in all facets of the Pirru Thangkuray Program
  • Design and deliver cultural Identity and Belonging activities
  • Lead Personal, Academic, Family and Cultural Goal setting processes
  • Attend school-based meetings with staff where applicable
  • Liaise with family and kin in matters relating to Pirru Thangkuray participants
  • Design and lead before/after school activities reflective of Aboriginal student cohort
  • Complete Personalised Learning Plans and goals for all Pirru Thangkuray participants
  • Create opportunities for Pirru Thangkuray participants to engage with community
  • Communicate with Pirru Thangkuray Program Manager and submit participant data snapshots
  • Engage with Professional Learning and Professional Development Plan Reviews
  • Undertake administrative, reporting and HR related work when necessary
  • Perform any other related duties as required by the NSW AECG Inc
  • Scope and Sequence
  • Timetable
  • Updated Mandatory Training
  • List of items needed

Secretary

Aboriginal Education Consultative Group – AECG
01.2008 - Current
  • Ensuring meetings are effectively organised and minuted
  • Liaising with the Chair to plan meetings
  • Receiving agenda items from committee members
  • Circulating agendas and reports
  • Taking minutes
  • Circulating approved minutes
  • Checking that agreed actions are carried out
  • More on the Secretary's role at meetings
  • Maintaining effective records and administration
  • Keeping up-to-date contact details (i.e
  • Names, addresses and telephone numbers) for the management committee and (where relevant) ordinary members of the organisation
  • Filing minutes and reports
  • Compiling lists of names and addresses that are useful to the organisation, including those of appropriate officials or officers of voluntary organisations
  • Keeping a record of the organisation's activities
  • Keeping a diary of future activities
  • Upholding legal requirements
  • Acting as custodian of the organisation's governing documents
  • Checking quorum is present at meetings
  • Ensuring elections are in line with stipulated procedures
  • Ensuring organisation's activities are in line with its objects
  • Ensuring charity and company law requirements are met
  • Sitting on appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary panels, as required
  • Responding to all committee correspondence
  • Filing all committee correspondence received and copies of replies sent
  • Keeping a record of any of the organisation's publications (e.g
  • Leaflets or newsletters) and reporting the activities of the organisation and future programmes to members, the press and the public (unless there is an Information or Publicity Officer)
  • Preparing a report of the organisation's activities for the year, for the Annual General Meeting

Treasurer

Aboriginal Education Consultative Group – AECG
01.2008 - Current
  • Oversee and present budgets, accounts and financial statements to the management committee
  • Liaise with designated staff about financial matters
  • Ensure that appropriate financial systems and controls are in place
  • Ensure that record-keeping and accounts meet the conditions of funders or statutory bodies
  • Ensure compliance with relevant legislation
  • Present regular reports on the organisation's financial position
  • Prepare accounts for audit and liaising with the auditor, as required
  • Present accounts at the AGM
  • Advise on the organisation's reserves and investment policy
  • Manage bank accounts
  • Set up appropriate systems for book-keeping, payments, lodgements & petty cash
  • Ensure everyone handling money keeps proper records and documentation
  • Ensure proper records are kept
  • Ensure required insurances are in place

Local Delegate

Aboriginal Education Consultative Group – AECG
01.2008 - Current
  • Collating relevant data that needs to be conveyed to the regional meetings about the happenings in our local AECG

Selection Panel member for employment opportunities

Aboriginal Education Consultative Group – AECG
01.2008 - Current
  • The role of the selection panel is to recommend the most suitable applicant to fill the vacant position
  • The panel’s recommendation will be based on the extent to which each applicant’s skills, knowledge and experience meet the general (if applicable) and specific selection criteria for the position, after assessing information from all stages of the selection process, i.e
  • Written application, referees’ comments and interview

Aboriginal School Learning Support Officer

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023
  • School learning support officers, under the supervision and direction of a teacher, assist in classroom activities, school routines, and the care and management of students with special needs
  • Generally, my role includes assisting teachers in our school to:
  • Implement individual education programs (IEPs)
  • Provide opportunities for students to develop personal, social, independent, living and pre-vocational skills
  • Attend to the personal care needs of students, and
  • Operate audio-visual aids, duplicating, issuing learning materials and clerical duties

Aboriginal Education Officer

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023
  • Aboriginal Education Officers (AEOs) work in schools where significant numbers of Aboriginal students are enrolled
  • They work closely with teachers to develop culturally appropriate resources and programs
  • They promote Aboriginal education, encourage students and support parents
  • AEOs work with teachers to assist Aboriginal students achieve their potential and keep the Aboriginal community informed of students' progress and achievements, and of things like parent meetings, school activities, new programs and other changes
  • AEOs provide role models for Aboriginal students and have a positive impact on helping them achieve their potential

Community Engagement Officer

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023
  • To develop, manage and implement the School’s community engagement activities and services, including identifying, and nurturing opportunities for affecting positive change at the School level through efforts that are aligned with the School’s strategic plan, and working closely with other School staff and volunteers to ensure integration and coordination of efforts

Support Unit working with special needs children

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023
  • School learning support officers Special work under the direction and supervision of the classroom teacher
  • They provide assistance to students with disability and additional learning and support needs enrolled in special schools, specialist support classes in mainstream schools and mainstream classes
  • They can provide assistance with: school routines, classroom activities, and the care and management of students with disability and additional learning and support needs
  • (toileting, medicating, etc.)

NORTA NORTA Tutor - Personalised learning Support for Aboriginal Students Program

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023
  • Provide support to targeted Aboriginal students to improve their literacy and/or numeracy achievements
  • Assist students to develop skills and understand that enable them to independently participate in class activities
  • Follow set teaching programs and ensure that the tuition provided is aligned with the student’s Personalised Learning Pathway
  • Maintain a structured timetable in negotiation with teachers to ensure all eligible students receive tutor support
  • Keep records to communicate observations and information about each student to the class teacher
  • Assist teachers as requested to communicate and provide feedback to parents, caregivers and community members
  • Attend where possible, professional learning activities to develop effective strategies in providing tutorial support to Aboriginal students

AEDI – Australian Early Development Index now known as AEDC Australian Early Development Census

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023
  • The Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) is an Australian Government Initiative
  • It is a nationwide survey that shows how young Australian children have developed as they start their first year of formal full-time education
  • The AEDC highlights what is working well and what needs to be improved or developed to support children and their families
  • The AEDC is a census that helps create a snapshot of early childhood development in Australia
  • This census takes place every 3 years
  • As they enter their first year of formal school, this research snapshot of a child’s development is taken when a school teacher completes their AEDC Checklist
  • Promoting the AEDC and informing schools of the captured data and ways to help out and contact relevant agencies

Education

School Certificate -

St Marys Catholic School
01.1997

Higher School Certificate -

Casino High School
01.2000

Skills

  • Problem-solving
  • Project management
  • Detail-oriented
  • Strategic planning
  • Team leadership and direction
  • Partnership development

Certification

  • Working with Children Check - WWC
  • Current Austswim Instructor License
  • Current First Aid Certificate – CPR, Anaphylaxis etc.
  • Current Emergency Care certificate – Asthma, Bites & Stings, Bleeding, Burns and Sock, Choking, CPR, Diabetes, Epilepsy & Seizures, Exposure, Musculoskeletal & Head Injuries, Poisons, Superficial Injuries
  • Current Asthma Certificate
  • Current Prescribed Medicines Certificate
  • Current Epilepsy Certificate
  • Working with children with Autism Certificate
  • Tafe Certificate: CERT lll In Employment & Training 1634 – Write complex non routine work-related texts.
  • Qualified Indigenous games presenter
  • Certification in the teaching of reading and spelling using Sounds ~ Write program
  • Interacting with customers Certificate –

- Deliver service to customers

- Respond to customer complaints

- Receive and process sales orders

- Identify customers special requirements

  • Data Breach Response Plan – Reporting data breaches
  • PLNTS – Introduction to Multicultural Education
  • PLNTS – Disability Strategy
  • PLNTS – Cultural Diversity
  • PLNTS – Aboriginal Education and Communities
  • PLNTS – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Customers
  • PLNTS – Supporting Students
  • Facing up to Racism
  • Child Protection Awareness Training - Revised
  • Corruption Prevention for Public Schools
  • Public Interest disclosures (PIDs) – reporting serious wrongdoing
  • Declaration of Private Interests and Conflicts of Interest Management
  • Fraud and Corruption Control
  • Anti-racism Education Statewide
  • NDIS Early Childhood Approach
  • Aligning Students NDIS Support to Learning and Support Team Processes
  • Supporting Families on the NDIS Pathway
  • SistaSpeak Facilitation Program Training
  • Anti-racism Policy Training
  • Aboriginal Cultural Education – Let’s take the first step together
  • Disability Standards for Education assistants
  • Positive Partnerships – Communication and Autism
  • Positive Partnerships – Transitions and Change
  • Positive Partnerships – Implementing Sensory Strategies
  • Positive Partnerships – Wellbeing and Resilience
  • Disability Strategy
  • Resolving Health and Safety Issues Within the Workplace
  • Preparing and Responding to Bushfires
  • Facing up to Racism
  • Work Health and Safety Induction for Employees
  • Management of Actual or Potential Aggression Foundation
  • Manual Handling – Work Health and Safety
  • Talk, Respect AND Connect
  • Engaging Communities
  • Anti-Racism Contact Officer
  • Cyber Security training – staff with technology and financial delegations
  • Work Health and Safety Induction for Employees
  • Current Administration of Medication in Schools
  • Current Mandatory Child Protection
  • Code of conduct online
  • Online Training Australia – Understanding and supporting Behaviour
  • Online Training Australia – Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Current Health Care Procedures Certification
  • Current Management of Actual or Potential Aggression Foundation Course

(PLNTS – Professional Learning Non-Teaching Staff)

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You - Affirm

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You - Embed

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You - Empower

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You –Understand Mental Health and Wellbeing in Communities - Understand

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You - Understand Mental Health and Wellbeing in Communities - Connect

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You - Understand Mental Health and Wellbeing in Communities - Include

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You – Family Partnerships - Partner

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You – Family Partnerships - Assist

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You – Early Support - Notice

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You – Early Support – Inquire

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You – Early Support – Provide

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You – Responding Together - Recognise

· Beyond Blue Professional Learning Module – Be You – Responding Together - Respond

· Tafe Certificate 3 - Apply critical thinking techniques

· Tafe Certificate 3 – AECG Writes: a course in writing skills

· Preparing for Success at Southern Cross University Program

Timeline

Pirru Thangkuray Program Manager

NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group Inc.
01.2023 - Current

Secretary

Aboriginal Education Consultative Group – AECG
01.2008 - Current

Treasurer

Aboriginal Education Consultative Group – AECG
01.2008 - Current

Local Delegate

Aboriginal Education Consultative Group – AECG
01.2008 - Current

Selection Panel member for employment opportunities

Aboriginal Education Consultative Group – AECG
01.2008 - Current

Aboriginal School Learning Support Officer

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023

Aboriginal Education Officer

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023

Community Engagement Officer

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023

Support Unit working with special needs children

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023

NORTA NORTA Tutor - Personalised learning Support for Aboriginal Students Program

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023

AEDI – Australian Early Development Index now known as AEDC Australian Early Development Census

Casino Public School
01.2008 - 01.2023

Higher School Certificate -

Casino High School

School Certificate -

St Marys Catholic School
Sonia Makings