Kerry Enright –  Director, Relief and Development Unit

Rev Dr Kerry Enright is National Director of UnitingWorld, the Uniting Church’s Assembly agency for international partnerships, including Relief and Development, Experience, Peacemaking and Church Solidarity. He and his family have lived in Sydney since he took up his role at the beginning of 2007. Kerry came from New Zealand where he originally practised law. He was a parish minister in the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and then for ten years Assembly Executive Secretary (CEO) of that Church. Kerry’s experience was mainly with Pacific churches and communities and more recently he has visited partners in Asia and Africa. He is particularly keen to enable the Uniting Church to renew its heritage of international connecting as a core part of its identity.

Rob Floyd – Associate Director for Relief and Development

Rob grew up in Hobart, Tasmania where he trained to be a secondary science teacher. Rob taught for several years in Tasmania before moving to Queensland where his teaching expanded to include computer studies.

In 1999 Rob and his wife Jacqui entered the People in Mission program and were placed as Mission Co-workers for the Uniting Church in the Artha Wacana Christian University in West Timor, Indonesia. Initially asked to set up a computer centre in the university, Rob also taught English, Computing and Biology at the university for seven years.

Whilst in West Timor Rob also worked as a consultant with a Christian Micro Finance Organisation called Tanaoba Lais Manekat. Through his experiences with TLM Rob developed his passion for relief and development work and ways in which poor people can be assisted to break out of poverty.

Rob returned to Australia in 2006 to commence work with UnitingWorld. Rob overseas all Relief and Development Programs with particular responsibility for Indonesia and Timor Leste.

Geoff Dornan – International Programs Coordinator

Rev Geoff Dornan joined UnitingWorld’s Relief and Development Unit as International Programs Coordinator in January 2010.

Geoff has held a variety of positions and placements in the Uniting Church in Australia and other churches beyond. He has worked in parish ministry in the New South Wales Synod, chaplaincy and teacher at Newington College and Director Ministry and Mission of Uniting Care NSW/ACT. Early in ministry he was appointed by the then Assembly body the Commission for World Mission to work in Chile during the Pinochet years and was seconded from there to work in El Salvador towards the end of the civil war – both during the 1980s. Whilst committed to practical action, he also has interests in the scholastic world; in particular the inter-relationship between philosophy, theology and ethics, having done post-graduate work in this area from 1999-2003 at Boston University, Massachusetts.

Geoff is based in the Sydney office managing projects in India, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Zambia. He is also involved in strengthening partnerships between Australian Church communities, UnitingWorld, and our Overseas Partners. Geoff brings knowledge and experience in both the Australian and overseas contexts to our team and we look forward to having him here.

Bryan Cussen – Pacific Programs Coordinator

Bryan joined the UnitingWorld team in April 2009 to coordinate our relief and development programs in PNG, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. After a career in social welfare and church planning, Bryan’s work in the Pacific began in 2000 when he and his family went as volunteers to Papua New Guinea. There he spent two years teaching at a Christian university in Madang. Feeling called to become more involved in the Church’s work in developing countries, Bryan added to his qualifications in psychology and theology with a Masters in International Development. He then took up a role coordinating an innovative ecumenical program which has seven Christian Churches in PNG and sister Churches in Australia collaborating in a wide range of development work – health, education, adult literacy, peace building – across PNG. At UnitingWorld he is now developing a similar program in Vanuatu.

Michael Constable – Papua New Guinea Programs Coordinator

Michael Constable grew up in Sydney but has spent most of his adulthood elsewhere, returning in January 2011 to join UnitingWorld’s Relief and Development Unit as the Papua New Guinea Programs Coordinator.

Michael has worked extensively in PNG since the late 1980’s, mainly in capacity building agricultural extension agencies in PNG but also in contracting health program delivery in PNG for AusAID and then more recently managing the Rural Development and Transport Infrastructure programs under the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands. He has also done short-term famine relief work in Kenya, Niger and Somalia. With a technical background in Agriculture, Michael was a District Agronomist with NSW Agriculture in the 1990’s. To further equip himself for international development work he completed a diploma in Permaculture and a Masters in International Development.

He sees his work as a practical outworking of his faith and seeks to help societies in developing countries to manage the impact of external socio economic influences and maintain the sustainability of their lifestyle in a background of increasing population pressure.

Bronwyn Fraser – Development Education Officer

Bronwyn comes to UnitingWorld following 15 years in working in Education as a Science teacher. During this time she worked within a variety of schools including city and country schools, public and Christian schools as well as in an all boys school in North East London. Whilst teaching on London, she travelled widely, experiencing many aspects of good cross cultural interaction. Before resigning for her previous teaching role to pursue a Masters in International Development Studies, Bronwyn was an active participant in a cross cultural and faith exchange program, by preparing and accompanying groups of year 10 students on exchange to Tonga. In January this year, Bronwyn also completed an internship through The Centre for Refugee Research at UNSW, which involved Human Rights Advocacy training for refugee women in India.

As part of her new role as Development Education Officer for UnitingWorld, Bronwyn has the opportunity to work with Australian Uniting Church School and Church communities in raising awareness of global issues such as poverty and inequality and to outline the appropriate response approaches that lead to good development. The aim of this is to build the awareness of Australian Uniting Church communities and empower them to take the opportunities available to become actively involved by linking these communities in partnership with our overseas Church partners and projects.

Peter Keegan – Peacebuilding Programs Coordinator

Sarah White – Community Engagement Facilitator

Nicola Gleeson – Management Accountant

Hannah Ireland – Project and Administration Officer

Russell Groves - Project Assistant (Policies and Procedures)