ALISON DALZIEL
Director
Alison is an economist with a passion for local government where she has spent over half of her career in a variety of technical and senior management roles. She has been consulting in the local government sector in Western Australia since arriving from New Zealand in 2009.
She was closely involved in the introduction of integrated planning in New Zealand and was part of the core group that devised the 1996 financial reforms and the 2002 Local Government Act. Alison was appointed as advisor to the Prime Minister in the early stages of implementing the new Act before working with several government departments to help them work more effectively with local government, particularly in economic and labour market development.
Her work in Western Australia has taken her far and wide in the State, in the areas of strategic planning, investigating amalgamation, organisational structure review and economic development.
Skills
- Senior leadership and management
- Advising councils and ministers
- Organisational change
- Strategic planning
- Policy development and implementation
- Partnership and participation processes
- Community engagement
- Corporate planning
- Economic and financial evaluation
- Economic development, regional and urban development, sustainable development
Experience
- Director, Localise
- Director, Dalziel Strategy and Performance
- Senior Consultant, Morrison Low
- Senior Economist, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research
- Acting Director, Strategy and Capability, Department of Labour
- Acting Group Manager, Workplace Policy, Department of Labour
- Group Manager, Labour Market Development, Department of Labour
- Advisor, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Director Policy, Wellington City Council
- Manager, Corporate Planning, Waitakere City Council
- Revenue Strategy Manager, Auckland City Council
- Team Leader and Senior Policy Analyst (Economics), Waitakere City Council
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts (Economics), University of Canterbury
- Currently completing Masters of Public Management, Victoria University of Wellington