Kit Thompson

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Kit has over 11 years experience at senior executive levels working in/with Public Sector agencies, including working as a Director of Human Resources in State Government, as well as extensive prior Public Sector experience.

She has worked with national recruitment companies undertaking executive recruitment, selection and organisational change consulting for major change initiatives in the NSW Public Sector, including human services and judicial agencies. As a change manager, Kit has been involved in a number of major Public Sector restructures in senior human resources and operations.

Kit’s Public and Private Sector experience also encompasses training and consulting services for root cause analysis, and human factor root cause analysis, a proprietary performance improvement methodology..

Other Public Sector experience includes:

  • Public Sector bulk recruitment project planning and implementation for NSW
  • State Government Departments from State Executive Services level through to clerk grade 1-2
  • Organisational structural reviews
  • Project planning & implementation, including national training course design
  • Award reviews and change management planning and deployment

She also established a framework for nationally accredited training programs, leading a consultative committee that included Industry Training Councils, Aboriginal and Union representatives.

Kit held corporate responsibility for Aboriginal cross-cultural awareness and the development and implementation of a restructure of the prison officer recruitment process to ensure equity and merit based appointments and to embed an awareness and sensitivity to the issues that face aboriginal people in the Justice system. This restructure included the development of a nationally accredited training program and an objective selection process using psychometric testing and independent evaluation of applicants against selection criteria.

Internal and external aboriginal community representatives sat on the steering committee and worked directly with the external consultants to validate results and ensure that the psychometric testing and complete recruitment and training program was culturally appropriate and supported the merit based recruitment and retention of aboriginal officers.

Kit has been involved in State at Parliamentary Estimates Committee Hearings, reporting on business operations and financial aspects of major State funded events.

Kit’s Public Sector involvement also includes Chairing the Industry Training Council and sitting on organising committees for the development of the competencies and the implementation of accrual accounting practices across all West Australian Public Sector Agencies. Other committees and boards include: Public Administration Industry and Training Council of WA (Inc.): Public Sector Management Course, Local Management Group-Commonwealth, State and Territory Government Joint Venture: Diploma in Financial Management & Accounting Board of Management Office of Premier and Cabinet, Public Sector Financial Skills Development Steering Committee, Public Service Commission: Contracting of Personnel and Payroll Systems & Services Committee, Bureau of State Services: Finance Sub-committee, Board of Management West Australian Sports Centre Trust: 4th Australian Masters. Games, Financial Management Sub-committee.