With an international background and global recruitment expertise, Lois manages NGO Recruitment’s Asia Pacific and international recruitment including domestic placements. She has more than 20 years’ recruiting experience, leadership, and business expertise, and is often invited to be a media resource and spokesperson on career development and international non-profit recruitment topics.
Lois has a stellar reputation built on personal integrity, reliability, and professionalism. She is driven by a genuine desire to support candidates with their social impact careers and to expand the not-for-profit sector, to increase its impact. Since joining NGO Recruitment in early 2019, she has helped many international non-profits with multi-country operations to hire effectively. She also helps Australia-based NGOs seeking to foster diversity or hire for international experience.
Having lived and worked overseas in Asia for much of her career, including a role as the China GM of a global recruitment brand, Lois understands the challenges faced by international recruitment and the complexities of building global teams. Lois’ depth of international experience and rigorous approach means she excels in sourcing a broad range of roles, including senior leaders, finding candidates with unique skills, and recruiting for positions affected by local talent shortages.
Lois has found exceptional candidates for hard-to-fill roles, such as regional directors for complex programmes in Asia and the Pacific, campaign strategists, and technical and thematic experts for international development, humanitarian aid, climate action, research institutes and animal welfare organisations, among others, internationally. Lois is the recruiter who clients call on when their recruitment efforts have been exhausted and they need to retain the services of an industry specialist.
Lois has numerous professional qualifications in career development, coaching, and resume writing, all accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF), and is also a certified Asperger’s/Autism employment coach. She also established NGO Recruitment’s career transition services—a first-of-its-kind offering for the non-profit sector, and co-authored NGO Recruitment’s International Nonprofit Careers Guide.
Prior to making for-purpose recruiting and career coaching her focus, Lois held several senior leadership roles internationally in recruitment and marketing; and also ran her own successful business.
Lois supports environmental and humanitarian causes and is a career mentor for global environmental initiatives #opendoorclimate and Terra.do. Lois completed a Climate Change, Learning for Action Fellowship with Terra.do.
