The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Office for Women has allocated funding to Local Government Professionals Australia to increase female leadership in the local Government sector.
In a statement, the Department said the Organisation had been allocated $615,000 over three years to increase female leadership in the local Government sector through tailored support for women and councils.
“The program will offer leadership development opportunities to women while providing support for councils to achieve the leadership gender balance target, including mentoring, scholarships, board traineeships and virtual and face-to-face professional development event attendance,” the Department said.
“Councils will be supported through reports, cases studies and toolkit resources to ensure local Governments are able to encourage, accommodate and foster female leaders within their workforces,” it said.
National President of Local Government Professionals Australia, Victoria MacKirdy said the Organisation was proud to partner with the Office for Women on its Local Government Women’s Future Leader Program.
“Since we set a gender balance target of 40:40:20 in local government senior leadership teams to be reached by 2025 last year – that is 40 per cent men, 40 per cent women and 20 per cent unspecified – we have been actively working to make this a reality,” Ms MacKirdy said.
