Mon 9 Apr 2012 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback View at NDHA
Shaun Robinson The NZ AIDS Foundation has had a 30% staff turnover in just over a year, the organisation's chief executive has revealed. In the first part of a stocktaking interview conducted by GayNZ.com and published today, Executive Director Shaun Robinson says the well-reported departure of three highly-placed staffers, Simon Harger-Forde, Eammon Smythe and Wayne Otter, were just part of a larger turnover amongst the approximately 45 staffers the NZAF employs. "We've had about 30% staff turnover in the last fourteen months," says Robinson, who took over the helm of the NZAF fourteen months ago after the pre-Christmas 2010 resignation of the previous Executive Director. Some of the turnover is "just natural attrition" he says, and some has been people who have been "a little bit burned" by mounting problems at the NZAF before his arrival "and who didn't have the energy to carry on." Robinson says some of the departures were of people who felt they had done their bit and who were ready to move on regardless. He says the vacancies have created "opportunities for new people to come in with new skills and new energy and there's nearly a third of the staff who don't have the baggage of [the NZAF's] history and who've come in and have been very much hired for their skills." Most of those who have been employed have been gay men, Robinson says, "and so the culture of the organisation and its roots in the gay and bisexual community are still very strong." Robinson's comments regarding the staff turnover and many other aspects of the NZAF under his guidance can be viewed at the link below. You can discuss this New Zealand gay community news story in the GayNZ.com Forum.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Monday, 9th April 2012 - 9:01pm