Wayne Jackson

Over his more than 20 years as an SES officer in both central and policy agencies, Wayne has developed extensive experience in:

• social policy and service delivery systems
• Commonwealth-state relations
• strategic planning
• corporate and financial management
• budgetary processes, techniques
• data, research and evaluation.

Wayne played a leading role in a number of cutting edge reforms, including: the initial stages of welfare reform; the introduction of program budgeting into the Commonwealth; recent reform of the Child Support Scheme; and review of Commonwealth-State health financing arrangements.

Wayne has strong conceptual, analytic, strategic and leadership skills. He has particular expertise in leading processes comprising diverse stakeholders in co‑operatively developing new policy or program approaches informed by the practical realities of service delivery.

Education / accreditation / board membership

Bachelor of Economics (Hons.), Monash University

Past employment

Over the past decade Wayne held Deputy Secretary positions in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. He was appointed a member of: the OECD Social Policy Bureau; the Australian Statistics Advisory Committee; and a number of independent policy review bodies addressing welfare reform, family law, child support and youth pathways. He has authored a number of published papers including “Achieving Inter‑Agency Collaboration in Policy Development” published in the September 2003 edition of the Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration.