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Management Team
Mairin Best
Managing Director
About my role... As Managing Director, I’m here to provide clarity and stability as we move through a time of transition. My focus is on supporting our leaders, staying true to our people-first culture, and continuing to delive...
Danielle Arthur
General Manager - Social Services
Hi and if I haven’t met you yet, I’m looking forward to it! I joined Tradewind in 2016, 8 days after landing in Australia. I had planned to travel around and only stay for 6 months, but I began work as casual admin staff (scanning TFN forms when we used to use paper documents… the good old days!) ...
Ryan Brookfield
General Manager - Education
Tell us about your role.As General Manager, it is my role to ensure the continual growth of the Education team. I oversee the Team Leaders in the day-to-day operations whilst personally focusing on the future growth ...
Ryan Botha
Regional Director
Wow what a journey!! It all started with a phone call and a meeting in a London pub in 2000 where Mike Kaye approached myself and Bruce Andrew (RIP) to start a recruitment business focusing on Education. 1st Contact Education was born in May 2001 and as a team of 2 we began a journey which has unfolded remarkably ove...
Matthew Lomas
IT Manager
Tell us about your role.I manage our technology selection and implementation as well as ensure smooth daily operations of computer systems.Tel...
Bradley McHugh
Director - People and Culture
Where are you from?Melbourne - (Originally Bendigo)What's your past work experience?
IT Team
Matthew Lomas
IT Manager
Tell us about your role.I manage our technology selection and implementation as well as ensure smooth daily operations of computer systems.Tel...
Josh Wright
Senior IT Support & Systems Administrator
Where are you from?Melbourne, Australia.What's your past work experience?
People and Culture
Bradley McHugh
Director - People and Culture
Where are you from?Melbourne - (Originally Bendigo)What's your past work experience?
Jacob Banks
People and Culture Advisor
What's a valuable lesson you've learnt from your professional experience?Most valuable lesson I have learnt in my professional career so far is always being authentic in your connections...
Education Permanent Team
Chelsey Gibbons
Permanent Education Recruitment Consultant
Where are you from? WalesWhat's your past work experience?<...
Emily Murphy
Permanent Recruitment Manager – Education
About my role...I support job seekers both from Australia and overseas, helping them to find their perfect teaching roles. To do this, we meet face to face or via video call to really dig deep into what kind of teaching job and working environment they are lookin...
Anna Jackson
Permanent Education Recruitment Consultant - NSW
Where are you from?Dublin, Ireland.What's your work experience?Aft...
Meg McLaughlin
Senior Education Recruitment Consultant - Victoria
My role at Tradewind is to look after the Account Management with schools (clients) in the South, alongside my Team Leader, Heather. We keep in frequent contact with our schools to ensure we provide a high level of service and cater to their individual needs.
Sam Greenfield
Permanent Education Recruitment Consultant
Where are you from?London, United Kingdom.What's your past work experience?My background spans recruitment and business development. I started my...
Education North Team
Dexter-Lee Maglalang
Education Team Leader - North
Having joined the Tradewind team in 2021, I initially worked with the Business Development team, liaising with schools to help supply Casual Relief Teachers and Education Support Officers in metro Melbourne. Progressing to an Education Team Leader role, I lead a team of recruitment consultants to ensure we delivered a gre...
Celine Jyanti
Education Recruitment Consultant - North
What do you do at Tradewind?As a Recruitment Consultant, I support our Casual Relief Teachers to source their ideal teaching roles in across Melbourne's Northern suburbs.
Rebecca Keeling
Education Recruitment Consultant - North
Where are you from?Essex, England.What's your past work experience?I h...
Samari Weeratunga
Compliance Consultant
What's your past work experience?I have over seven years of experience in recruitment and compliance across a range of industries including healthcare, white-collar, blue-collar and medical. Most recently, I worked in Cons...
Education South Team
Sarah Sheehy
Education Team Leader – South
Where are you from?Ireland.What's your past work experience?5 year...
Caitlin Mair
Senior Education Recruitment Consultant - South
Where are you from?Dunfermline, Scotland.What's your past work experience?
Ray Kurban
Senior Compliance Consultant
How do you and your team stay ahead of the curve?By sticking to Tradewind's core values and treating everyone as a human, not as a number.
Education West Team
Lucy Evans
Education Team Leader - West
Where are you from?England, United Kingdom.What's your past work experience?I'm a teacher by t...
Benjamin Depetro
Senior Education Recruitment Consultant - West
What do you do at Tradewind?I am a candidate consultant and allocator. This means I'm the first port of call for our education sta...
Lara Campbell
Senior Recruitment Consultant - West
Hi, my name is Lara.I really love my role and I feel as though ...
Whitney Hu
Senior Compliance Consultant
What do you do at Tradewind?As a compliance consultant at Tradewind, I am a first point of contact for new applicants that come through. After a resume is submitted, I will screen applicants to det...
Education Team Central
Jaimie-Lee Brown
Senior Education Consultant
Jaimie-Lee Brown is a Senior Education Consultant at Tradewind Australia, supporting schools and educators across Melbourne’s central areas with Casual Relief Teaching (CRT) recruitment.A former Primary School teacher, Jaimie brin...
Education Support
Brad Flowers
Education Team Leader - Support Staff
What do you do at Tradewind?I specialise in supporting specialist schools and Education Inclusion. I work closely with schools to match students’ learning needs with teachers and education support staff, ensuring every student has th...
Taylor Downs
Recruitment Consultant
Where are you from?Diggers RestWhat's your past work experience?I have worked in recru...
Blair Campbell
Recruitment Consultant
Where are you from?Originally Falkirk, Scotland. Northcote, Melbourne is now home.
Sara Murphy
Education Support - Compliance Consultant
Where are you from?England.What's your past wor...
Early Years Team
Bianca Baron
National Early Years Manager
Where are you from?Australia.What's your past work experience?I've...
Rebecca White
Early Years Senior Education Consultant
What do you do at Tradewind?Essentially, my role entails supporting Early Learning Centres and Educators in finding each other. I get to liaise with Early Learning Centres regarding their recruitment nee...
Dean Millsom
Education Recruitment Consultant - Early Years
Where are you from?Melbourne, AustraliaWhat's your past work experience?
Business Development Team
Sarah Ingram
Business Development Manager
Tell us about your role.I am a Business Development Manager on the Education side of Tradewind. I pride myself on building strong relationships with schools and forging new links with new schools.
Brandon Sardari
Business Development Manager
Where are you from?Nottingham, United Kingdom.What's your past work experience?
Education Learning and Development Team
Terry Twomey
Principal Mentor - Ex Secondary School Principal
Billy and Terry are our resident celebrities. Not only do they mentor our teachers but they are featured on our podcast and webinar series.
Billy Green
Ex Primary School Principal
Billy and Terry are our resident celebrities. Not only do they mentor our teachers but they are featured on our podcast and webinar series.
Social Services - Corporate Services Team
Angus Hayes
Senior Recruitment Consultant - Corporate Services & Executive Search
Where are you from?Melbourne - Born and bred.What's your past work experience?
Sam Read
Team Leader - VIC & NSW Corporate Services
About my role...I recruit in the corporate services space, so my day is split nicely between conducting interviews, speaking to clients and candidates and just making sure I'm matching the best candidates with...
Keelan Gand-Hunt
Senior Recruitment Consultant - Corporate Services & Executive Search - NSW
Where are you from?Originally from the Eastern suburbs Melbourne, but have spent the last 8 years overseas. Mainly in the UK.What's yo...
Mental health, Youth, Housing/Homelessness and Disaster Recovery Team
Melissa Carson
Team Leader - Mental Health, Homelessness, Youth and Disaster Relief
I started with Tradewind in March 2014 as the Welfare consultant and after 4 months I moved into the Social Work consultant role. Back then the whole of social work consisted of 6 consultants. By December 2014 I had moved into the Social Work Manager position. As we grew larger we then had a Perm division and a complia...
Katie Lucas
Recruitment Consultant - Mental Health, Youth and Homelessness
What do you do at Tradewind? I’m a recruitment consultant for the Mental Health, Youth, and Homelessness sectors. Before recruitment, I worked in Sales so I have been able to carry my communicati...
The Child and Family Services Team
Heather Catterall
Team Leader - Child and Family Services
Tell us about your role.I lead a team of recruitment consultants specialising in the child and family services spaces. We work with non-profit community organisatio...
Natalie Griffiths
Senior Recruitment Consultant - Child and Family Services
I started my career in the beauty industry, I was passionate about making people feel good and loved doing hands on work. After 10 years there, I started to look for a different direction and decided to have a career change. I began working in a HR&OHS company as a sales consultant and ...
Leigh Rogers
Senior Recruitment Consultant - Child and Family Services
What do you do at Tradewind?I work as a consultant on the Family Services team. My role is mostly matching great candidates to roles in the Family Services & Family Violence sectors across Victor...
Annabelle Cameron
Recruitment Consultant - Child and Family Services
Where are you from?I’m originally from country Australia – Bega, home of the cheese! I have lived in Canberra, Sydney and now Melbourne.Wh...
The Aged Care and Disability Services Team
Liz Martin
Senior Recruitment Consultant – Aged Care & Disability Services
Liz manages permanent recruitment into aged care facilities Nationally. These roles are mainly Facility Managers, Clinical Care Coordinators, Registered Nurses and Clinical Care Coordinators. She is presently managing a project sourcing the workforce for COVID testing in Melbourne’s West.
Justice, Alcohol & Drugs, Asylum & Refugee Team
Greg Camm
Team Leader - AOD, Justice & Asylum/Refugee
Where are you from?Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, United KingdomWhat's your past work experience?
Victoria Team
Heather Catterall
Team Leader - Child and Family Services
Tell us about your role.I lead a team of recruitment consultants specialising in the child and family services spaces. We work with non-profit community organisatio...
Mairin Best
Managing Director
About my role... As Managing Director, I’m here to provide clarity and stability as we move through a time of transition. My focus is on supporting our leaders, staying true to our people-first culture, and continuing to delive...
Sarah Ingram
Business Development Manager
Tell us about your role.I am a Business Development Manager on the Education side of Tradewind. I pride myself on building strong relationships with schools and forging new links with new schools.
Danielle Arthur
General Manager - Social Services
Hi and if I haven’t met you yet, I’m looking forward to it! I joined Tradewind in 2016, 8 days after landing in Australia. I had planned to travel around and only stay for 6 months, but I began work as casual admin staff (scanning TFN forms when we used to use paper documents… the good old days!) ...
Ryan Brookfield
General Manager - Education
Tell us about your role.As General Manager, it is my role to ensure the continual growth of the Education team. I oversee the Team Leaders in the day-to-day operations whilst personally focusing on the future growth ...
Melissa Carson
Team Leader - Mental Health, Homelessness, Youth and Disaster Relief
I started with Tradewind in March 2014 as the Welfare consultant and after 4 months I moved into the Social Work consultant role. Back then the whole of social work consisted of 6 consultants. By December 2014 I had moved into the Social Work Manager position. As we grew larger we then had a Perm division and a complia...
Jacob Banks
People and Culture Advisor
What's a valuable lesson you've learnt from your professional experience?Most valuable lesson I have learnt in my professional career so far is always being authentic in your connections...
Emily Murphy
Permanent Recruitment Manager – Education
About my role...I support job seekers both from Australia and overseas, helping them to find their perfect teaching roles. To do this, we meet face to face or via video call to really dig deep into what kind of teaching job and working environment they are lookin...
Sam Read
Team Leader - VIC & NSW Corporate Services
About my role...I recruit in the corporate services space, so my day is split nicely between conducting interviews, speaking to clients and candidates and just making sure I'm matching the best candidates with...
Leigh Rogers
Senior Recruitment Consultant - Child and Family Services
What do you do at Tradewind?I work as a consultant on the Family Services team. My role is mostly matching great candidates to roles in the Family Services & Family Violence sectors across Victor...
Joelene
Office Mascot
Jolene is the Tradewind mascot. Pre-Covid days she was a star feature in the Melbourne office. Her mum and dad are Team Leaders in the Melbourne team – Mairin and Brad.
New South Wales Team
Sam Read
Team Leader - VIC & NSW Corporate Services
About my role...I recruit in the corporate services space, so my day is split nicely between conducting interviews, speaking to clients and candidates and just making sure I'm matching the best candidates with...
Keelan Gand-Hunt
Senior Recruitment Consultant - Corporate Services & Executive Search - NSW
Where are you from?Originally from the Eastern suburbs Melbourne, but have spent the last 8 years overseas. Mainly in the UK.What's yo...
Queensland Team
Ryan Botha
Regional Director
Wow what a journey!! It all started with a phone call and a meeting in a London pub in 2000 where Mike Kaye approached myself and Bruce Andrew (RIP) to start a recruitment business focusing on Education. 1st Contact Education was born in May 2001 and as a team of 2 we began a journey which has unfolded remarkably ove...
Taryn Botha
Team Leader - Queensland Social Services
What do you do at Tradewind? I assisted in the start-up of the Tradewind Brisbane office, and now work in the Gold Coast Office as a Recruitment Account Manager.I am a trained Primary and Special Needs teacher and have 3 ye...
Will Rees-Hole
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Where are you from?Wales, UK.What's your past work experience?Prio...
Imogen Dunlin
Recruitment Consultant
Where are you from?England.What's your past work experience?Educat...
Social Services Resource and Compliance Team
Gonca Durukan
Head Of Compliance
Tell us about your role.As the Compliance Team Leader, my role is to ensure that the onboarding process within the organisation adheres to all relevant regulations and our company standards. This involves ensurin...
Sam Waite
Compliance Consultant
Where are you from?Scotland originally - currently living in MelbourneWhat's your past work experience?I studied Law back home in Scotland, and alongside my degree and si...
Nisheli Suriyasena
Senior Compliance Consultant
What do you do at Tradewind?As a Senior Compliance Consultant, I am responsible for supporting candidates through each stage of their registration process. I am in constant contact with candidates to...
Tradewind Mascot
Joelene
Office Mascot
Jolene is the Tradewind mascot. Pre-Covid days she was a star feature in the Melbourne office. Her mum and dad are Team Leaders in the Melbourne team – Mairin and Brad.