The NZ AIDS Foundation is losing its National Communications Coordinator to the private sector after four years spent shaping the organisation's communications strategy and messages. Dawn O'Connor is leaving to take up "a role in the private sector for a lot more money than NZAF can offer her," says NZAF Executive Director Shaun Robinson. "I have enjoyed working with Dawn and she has done good job for us in the last four years. Im sorry to see her go." For her part, O'Connor says she is "very sad" to be leaving the NZAF. "I've been here for four years and I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else. I've loved working with Shaun as my manager and I feel really good about the work I've done, and the team that’s here." O'Connor says she has worked for non-governmental organisations such as the NZAF, and for central and local government bodies "since I left high school and I think it's time to get experience in the private sector." She says the higher salary she can command in the private sector is a factor in her decision to leave the NZAF. "As a woman living in Auckland with an immense student loan, it makes sound financial sense for me to work for a business for a while." O'Connor will finish up at the NZAF this Friday. She says she'll depart "with a ton of great memories and a contact list of wonderful people that I've felt privileged to meet."
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Monday, 25th June 2012 - 3:00pm