SAID Practice Advisory Group

Cameron has forty years’ experience in finance, audit, and risk. Thirty years have been served with The Salvation Army in Australia, predominantly within internal and risk. He currently serves as both Head of Audit, Risk, and Compliance and Governance Lead for The Salvation Army Australia leading a portfolio of departments primarily focused on ensuring good governance for all mission and ministry. Cameron is a Fellow Certified Practicing Accountant and also has qualifications in Business, Audit and Applied Finance.

Jenny’s career has been spent in Social Services and she has been a Salvation Army officer for over 30 years, working in a range of social and community services and leadership positions across Australia. Her previous roles have been in the governance and management of social programs for Victoria and, most recently, as National Head of Social Mission in operational management for social services on behalf of The Salvation Army. Jenny has served in Board positions for the Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS), the Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) and the Victorian Alcohol & Drug Association (VAADA). She has also served as the President of the Australian Women’s Coalition for two terms. Jenny’s main areas of expertise are Family Violence and Homelessness.

Bruce has a background of 20+ years in local church leadership. From his childhood, which included 4 years living in PNG, he has had a long-term interest in international aid and development, and interned with Tearfund during his initial ministry training. His interest in the developing world led him to a role overseeing church partnership development with the Churches of Christ in Fiji for 6 years. During his time in Fiji, Bruce completed a Master of Transformational Development, with a desire to engage in faith-based community development work more directly on his return to Australia. His studies included a research component on understanding and attitudes about Climate Change in the church in Fiji, and he has a particular interest in responses to climate change in the development context. Bruce joined SAID as a Project Coordinator in September 2021 and stepped into the acting Program Manager role in November 2024.

Roger has 26 years’ experience in corporate senior management in project and strategic management. He has spent the last 15 years assisting the aid and development sector with Australian Government accreditation within the DFAT ANCP program. Roger also has extensive on the ground experience in aid investment programs in Africa, South Asia as well as Oceania includes stakeholder consultations, development proposals, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning. In addition, Roger was a Board member and Chairperson of Micah Australia from 2015 through to 2023. He continues to provide input to Micah through the Finance, Risk and Audit Sub-Committee.

Arbin has 17 years’ experience as Financial Accountant for The Salvation Army, managing financial accounting and taxation reporting. He also brings high-level networking capabilities and 18 years’ team-building expertise, service design and strategy.

Jackie draws on her experience working for Quaker Service Australia in project management and compliance, maintaining Full Level DFAT Accreditation, and organisational administration for 20 years. During that time, with her deep interest and concern for communities in need, Jackie supported communities in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India (Tamil Nadu), Uganda and First Nations communities in Australia in locally led development to achieve significant change. Jackie is recently retired.

Marshall currently works with Tearfund Australia leading a team supporting Tearfund’s partnerships in Africa, Afghanistan and Nepal. Within this role, Marshall also works directly with partners in South Sudan and Ethiopia to deliver quality development and humanitarian programs, and he has previously worked with partners in Sudan, Somalia, Zambia and Kenya. Marshall began his journey in international development as a Projects Officer with The Salvation Army in Kenya from 2004 to 2011. Prior to completing a Masters of International and Community Development in 2002, Marshall cut his teeth in community development through 17 years of corps and community-based work for The Salvation Army in Melbourne.

Katie’s career has been spent in community and mental health services for over 18 years. Her previous roles include coordinating a Royal Commission into Institutionalised Responses to Child Sexual Abuse support service, program management, planning, development and commissioning of youth and adult mental health and suicide prevention services. Katie has also worked within the Out of Home Care sector as a Clinician supporting children, young people and their carers, and currently works as the Safeguarding Manager Policy and Practice - Participation and Inclusion supporting SAID safeguarding practices and The Salvation Army with participation and inclusion practices to ensure children and young people’s voices are heard.