RISE appoints Chief Executive
Maud Molloy has been appointed as the next RISE Chief Executive Officer/Kaiwhakahaere, and joins RISE from Monday, 9 March.
Maud has more than 15 years’ NGO management experience and is looking forward to helping RISE continue building resilient and safe communities in Te Tauihu (the top of the south) in partnership with our funders and stakeholders.
RISE Board Chair Angela Ricker says RISE has been very fortunate for the immensely capable and caring leadership of General Manager Dee Cresswell for the last 16 years, who has guided RISE from strength to strength.
“RISE is set up for a bright future and we are certain Maud will bring that same commitment and heart to the expanded role of CEO/Kaiwhakahaere.”
Maud brings a broad range of experience includes strategic leadership, fundraising, representation, advocacy, financial management, and human resources. She has managed annual budgets of up to NZ$6.5 million and a team of up to 92 full time employees.
Until now, she has been the General Manager of Te Whare Mahana a mental health NGO in Mohua, Golden Bay where she helped oversee significant operational initiatives, increased local community engagement, and managed a major infrastructure project. Te Whare Mahana has 39 staff and an annual operating budget of $2m.
Previously, Maud was the regional service manager of a family violence organisation in France for five years. She spent nine years in the mental health and disability sector. Her work in this sphere included working as the General Manager of a residential care home in France with 56 high and complex needs clients; later becoming a General Policy Manager for the organisation’s 60 residential care centres.
She also served as the programme coordinator of a gender-based violence project in Pakistan and has worked with survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
RISE’s Chief Executive Maud Molloy.
Maud holds a Bachelor of Law and Masters of Law specialised in International Humanitarian Action from the University of Paul Cezanne, France - including a year’s exchange at University of Otago’s Faculty of Law.
She was drawn to RISE’s work following her work experience in the domestic violence, sexual violence and gender-based violence fields, alongside years working in the mental health sector.
As RISE CEO Maud is excited at the opportunity to lead RISE in partnership with its Board and is looking forward to meeting and working with RISE’s partners.