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Our Management Board

Our Management Board

Queensland Kids Partnership is governed by a Management Board who account to our partners and the ARACY Board. The team of Queensland-based leaders oversees performance, budget, staffing, risk and operations, keeping us on track to: 

  • deliver our priorities effectively, equitably and efficiently
  • follow our agreed values and principles, including the Partnerships Charter
  • meet our legal, financial and contractual accountabilities to partners and investors.

Thanks to our Management Board members for your guidance and unwavering commitment to Queensland’s kids.

Jane Yacopetti headshot

Jane Yacopetti

Board Chair

Balveen Ajimal

Director, GoodWolf Partners
Lucille Chalmers

Lucille Chalmers

Ceo of Darling Downs & West Moreton phn
Andrew Chesterman

Andrew Chesterman

CEO of Endeavour Foundation

Simone Jackson

Simone Jackson

proud Kamilaroi, Yuggera woman, CEO of Kambu Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Health (Kambu Health)
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Katrina Lines

CEO of Act for Kids

Jessica Oostenbroek

Senior Director, Queensland Health

Melodie Potts Rosevear

CEO OF ARACY

Marcus Ward

Vice President (Advancement) and Head, Gold Coast Campus at Griffith University
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Geoffrey Woolcock

National Manager, Research, Advocacy & Training, Edmund Rice Education Aust Flexi Schools; Adj Senior Research Fellow, UniSQ & GU
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Leadership Table

Our Leadership Table acts as a crucial advisory forum for Queensland Kids Partnership and the Management Board. 

Meet the team

Queensland Kids Partnership is coordinated by a backbone team who work as the ‘glue’ to connect our many partners and lead our initiatives.

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Explainer video: "What surrounds us shapes us"

This short explainer video introduces the Resilience Scale and ARACY’s The Nest framework as models to help understand how experiences and environments shape children’s health and development. 
This cover page of the Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership Charter shows a smiling young boy, approximately 8 years of age, surrounded by a bright pattern in TQKP brand colours with the combined TQKP and ARACY logos.

Partnerships charter

Our Charter clearly sets out the partnership’s shared goals, values and ways of working to improve systems for Queensland’s children. We invite you to review the Charter and join us if you support our shared vision for Queensland kids. 
Queensland Place-Based Rivermap Cover

Report: Queensland Place-Based Rivermap

The Queensland Place-Based Rivermap proposes systemic actions to support our many place-based initiatives. Let’s work together to create local conditions that are good for families and kids.
Jane Yacopetti headshot

Jane Yacopetti

Board chair

Jane is an experienced senior health executive with over 30 years’ experience in both the private and public sectors. She has wide ranging experience in strategy and planning and her management and governance expertise is extensive and varied. She has held executive roles in large tertiary health institutions in Australia and successfully built and managed a consultancy company working both nationally and internationally.

Jane is passionate about delivering services that make an impact on the people for whom the services are intended, and she has an interest in the governance systems and processes necessary to deliver such outcomes.

She has spent a large part of her career working in organisations delivering services to children and young people. This experience gives her valuable insight into the challenges involved in delivering integrated and effective services to this population group.

Balveen Ajimal

Board Member

Balveen brings a diverse range of international corporate law and private equity experience and a strong track record in leading major transformation and growth initiatives in large not for profits. She has a deep understanding of the role of robust governance structures, operational frameworks which are fit for purpose, application of clear and precise business intelligence and subtle communication strategies – essential for managing complex strategic change.Balveen has led the design and roll out of new impact investment structures, multi-million-dollar endowments and strategic funds and designed new vehicles for co-investment by industry and Government partnerships based on common purpose, from conception to implementation.

She is passionate about enabling better quality of life, opportunity and access for women and children and loves to find innovative ways to bring organisations together to support communities facing disadvantage and isolation.

Lucille Chalmers

Lucille Chalmers

board member

Lucille is an experienced health and human services executive with a special focus on community health and primary healthcare. Lucille is the CEO of Darling Downs & West Moreton PHN and was previously Deputy CEO at Brisbane South PHN.

Lucille has a deep commitment to improving community health and wellbeing with extensive experience in the design, delivery and commissioning of health and human services in Australia and United Kingdom. She has a particular passion for community driven and place-based ways of working to address inequities and improve health outcomes.

She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds qualifications in Business (Philanthropy and Non-Profit Studies), Masters of Public Health and Bachelor of Applied Science (Speech Pathology).

Andrew Chesterman

Andrew Chesterman

Board member

Andrew has an extensive executive leadership background. Since 2012 he has held four CEO / Director General positions within the public and not-for-profit sector. He is currently the CEO of Endeavour Foundation.   

Andrew is a values-driven individual who has a history of building cohesive teams, often in the face of significant disruption, applying his strategic planning abilities to forge, and communicate, a new direction with buy-in from customers and stakeholders alike. He has a long association with roles associated with building better communities and a more sustainable environment.

He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds tertiary qualifications in Environment (Bachelor of Applied Science), Education (Post Graduate Diploma) and is a member of the CEO Institute.

Simone Jackson

Simone Jackson

board member

Simone is a proud Kamilaroi, Yuggera woman from Southwest Queensland.

An accomplished Government and now Non-Government Executive with over 25 years’ experience, Simone has worked in roles relating to justice and human services across two jurisdictions (Queensland & Northern Territory). 

Over the past 11 years she has worked in significant senior Government roles including being appointed the Northern Territory’s Chief Witness for the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse, and presenter to the Senate Enquiry (Nova Peris) into Out of Home Care. 

Simone is the Chief Executive Officer, Kambu Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Health (Kambu Health) covering Ipswich and West Moreton region.

Simone’s career pathway has foundations in authenticity and courage.

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Katrina Lines

board member

Katrina is CEO of Act for Kids, a national not-for-profit organisation supporting children, young people and families. She is a registered psychologist with more than 20 years’ experience delivering clinical and social services at the individual, organisational and community level. She has a PhD in child development and postgraduate qualifications in business, education and governance.

Prior to Act for Kids, Katrina practiced as a psychologist and worked as lecturer and researcher at James Cook University in Australia and Singapore. Katrina is an expert assessor for the Australian Research Council. She has served on not-for-profit boards and has experience in governance, leadership and risk management in organisations providing services to vulnerable children, young people and families.

Jessica Oostenbroek

Board DIRECTOR

Jessica is a proud Aboriginal woman from the Yuggera peoples of South-East Queensland, bringing over 15 years of experience leading strategy and reform. As a respected executive in the Queensland Public Service, she has played a key role in co-designing the Health Equity Reform Program and advancing initiatives for the First Nations workforce and sector development.

Jessica’s expertise extends across health, mental health, and youth justice, where she has focused on improving access and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families in the child protection sector. She has been dedicated to implementing policies and strategies that uphold the rights of First Nations peoples and address the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care.

Jessica holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science, a Graduate Certificate in Policy Analysis, and an Executive Master of Business Administration.

Melodie Potts Rosevear

Board Member

Melodie is a respected social impact leader with more than 25 years working across government, philanthropy, communities and the non-profit sector, improving outcomes for children and young people.  

As the founding CEO of Teach For Australia, she took the organisation from startup to national scale and impact, shifting teacher education system policies and practices and enabling nearly 2,000 individuals to become teachers and future educational leaders. Over 85% of TFA alumni remain working in the education system. Previously, Melodie worked on the founding team at the Cape York Institute, helping drive its early work in community-led reforms to welfare and education policy. In her time at the Boston Consulting Group, she supported community-led design consultations and built an evidence base to inform major reforms to an urban Atlanta school district. 

Melodie holds a Master of Public Policy with distinction from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Kennedy Scholar and received a Rising Star alumni award, and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of North Carolina, where she was a Morehead Scholar. Melodie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contribution to education and is passionate about ensuring every child has the chance to thrive.  

Marcus Ward

Board Member

Marcus is Vice President (Advancement) and Head, Gold Coast Campus at Griffith University, leading community engagement, fundraising and alumni initiatives that drive real impact across meaningful partnerships.

He is a strong supporter of Queensland Kids Partnership’s mission to see Every Child Thriving by delivering evidence‑based, community‑centred outcomes for Queensland families.

Having worked in the UK and Ireland for The Prince’s Trust and Queen’s University Belfast, Marcus, along with Jenny and their three teenagers moved to Australia In 2013.

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Geoffrey Woolcock

Board Member

Geoff is the National Manager, Research, Advocacy & Training, Edmund Rice Education Aust Flexi Schools, and also a Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University’s Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI) and the University of Southern Queensland’s Institute for Communities and Regional Development Research.

He has 37 years community-based research experience, and has co-published over 175 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and community reports.

He’s also a current board director of the Australian National Development Index (ANDI, since 2012 and Chair for the past 6 years), Brisbane Housing Company (2009-2025), and Charter for Compassionate Australia  (since 2024). He also co-established the high-profile collective impact initiative Logan Together. Geoff was the Australian member on the executive committee for the Asia-Pacific Child-Friendly Cities Network (2010-2013) and the inaugural Queensland convenor for the Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth (ARACY) from 2013-2014.