❓ A parliamentary question seeks information about the Director of Sustainable Forest Management's qualifications and experience. The answer defends the appointment based on broader skills and a desire for fresh perspectives.
AnsweredQoN 2332Legislative Assembly
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(1) Who currently holds or is acting in the position of Director, Sustainable Forest Management, within the Department of Conservation and Land Management?
(2) How long has this person been in this position or been acting in this position?
(3) What is this person’s professional expertise in forest management?
(4) What is this person’s life-time experience in forest management and related background issues?
(2) How long has this person been in this position or been acting in this position?
(3) What is this person’s professional expertise in forest management?
(4) What is this person’s life-time experience in forest management and related background issues?
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Answered
2 March 2004
Responded by
Minister for the Environment
Response time
90 days
(2) Since August 2001. (3) Ms Bailey has no professional forest management qualification, however, Senior Executive Service positions are not filled on the basis of a professional qualification in one discipline or another, but on the basis of a range of skills including high level policy and strategic development skills, leadership skills, management skills and interpersonal skills. (4) There has been a conscious decision that the preparation of the next forest management plan would be overseen by people who would bring new perspectives, be more open to external viewpoints and better able to communicate that there was to be a significant improvement in forest management as ecologically sustainable forest management principles were applied to our south-west forests. Both Caris Bailey, who has high-level policy and strategic development skills and expert communication and public consultation skills, and her predecessor as Acting Director of Sustainable Forest Management, Keiran McNamara, have been able to draw on a range of high level internal and external technical expertise to deliver the outcomes requested by Government. Ms Bailey has been employed in senior communications and policy and strategic development roles in the Department of Conservation and Land Management for 13 years. During this time she has worked on the public interest aspects of many forest management issues.
(3) Ms Bailey has no professional forest management qualification, however, Senior Executive Service positions are not filled on the basis of a professional qualification in one discipline or another, but on the basis of a range of skills including high level policy and strategic development skills, leadership skills, management skills and interpersonal skills. (4) There has been a conscious decision that the preparation of the next forest management plan would be overseen by people who would bring new perspectives, be more open to external viewpoints and better able to communicate that there was to be a significant improvement in forest management as ecologically sustainable forest management principles were applied to our south-west forests. Both Caris Bailey, who has high-level policy and strategic development skills and expert communication and public consultation skills, and her predecessor as Acting Director of Sustainable Forest Management, Keiran McNamara, have been able to draw on a range of high level internal and external technical expertise to deliver the outcomes requested by Government. Ms Bailey has been employed in senior communications and policy and strategic development roles in the Department of Conservation and Land Management for 13 years. During this time she has worked on the public interest aspects of many forest management issues.
(4) There has been a conscious decision that the preparation of the next forest management plan would be overseen by people who would bring new perspectives, be more open to external viewpoints and better able to communicate that there was to be a significant improvement in forest management as ecologically sustainable forest management principles were applied to our south-west forests. Both Caris Bailey, who has high-level policy and strategic development skills and expert communication and public consultation skills, and her predecessor as Acting Director of Sustainable Forest Management, Keiran McNamara, have been able to draw on a range of high level internal and external technical expertise to deliver the outcomes requested by Government. Ms Bailey has been employed in senior communications and policy and strategic development roles in the Department of Conservation and Land Management for 13 years. During this time she has worked on the public interest aspects of many forest management issues.
Ms Bailey has been employed in senior communications and policy and strategic development roles in the Department of Conservation and Land Management for 13 years. During this time she has worked on the public interest aspects of many forest management issues.
(3) Ms Bailey has no professional forest management qualification, however, Senior Executive Service positions are not filled on the basis of a professional qualification in one discipline or another, but on the basis of a range of skills including high level policy and strategic development skills, leadership skills, management skills and interpersonal skills. (4) There has been a conscious decision that the preparation of the next forest management plan would be overseen by people who would bring new perspectives, be more open to external viewpoints and better able to communicate that there was to be a significant improvement in forest management as ecologically sustainable forest management principles were applied to our south-west forests. Both Caris Bailey, who has high-level policy and strategic development skills and expert communication and public consultation skills, and her predecessor as Acting Director of Sustainable Forest Management, Keiran McNamara, have been able to draw on a range of high level internal and external technical expertise to deliver the outcomes requested by Government. Ms Bailey has been employed in senior communications and policy and strategic development roles in the Department of Conservation and Land Management for 13 years. During this time she has worked on the public interest aspects of many forest management issues.
(4) There has been a conscious decision that the preparation of the next forest management plan would be overseen by people who would bring new perspectives, be more open to external viewpoints and better able to communicate that there was to be a significant improvement in forest management as ecologically sustainable forest management principles were applied to our south-west forests. Both Caris Bailey, who has high-level policy and strategic development skills and expert communication and public consultation skills, and her predecessor as Acting Director of Sustainable Forest Management, Keiran McNamara, have been able to draw on a range of high level internal and external technical expertise to deliver the outcomes requested by Government. Ms Bailey has been employed in senior communications and policy and strategic development roles in the Department of Conservation and Land Management for 13 years. During this time she has worked on the public interest aspects of many forest management issues.
Ms Bailey has been employed in senior communications and policy and strategic development roles in the Department of Conservation and Land Management for 13 years. During this time she has worked on the public interest aspects of many forest management issues.
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