USPG: Anglicans in World Mission appoints a new General Secretary/Chief Executive

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Posted On : February 23, 2011 5:27 PM | Posted By : Admin ACO
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USPG: Anglicans in World Mission appoints a new
General Secretary/Chief Executive

USPG has announced that Janette O?Neill will take
over as General Secretary/Chief Executive from
1st May of this year, when the current General
Secretary, Bishop Michael Doe retires.
Mrs O?Neill has worked extensively in the
Anglican Church in many parts of Africa, and is
currently Senior Programme Officer with Episcopal
Relief & Development in New York.

Canon Linda Ali, Chair of Trustees said:

"I welcome Mrs Janette O?Neill as the new General
Secretary/Chief Executive of USPG: Anglicans in
World Mission. Following a highly competitive
recruitment process, Janette emerged as an
outstanding individual to lead the restructured
USPG into a new phase of its life as an Anglican
Mission Society.  Janette has an excellent
academic background with an extensive track
record of church mission programmes, supporting
the life and work of Anglican churches around the
world. She is already well-known and highly
respected throughout the Anglican
Communion.  Janette will be a great asset to USPG
during these challenging times and the Trustees
and Staff join me in welcoming her in an exciting
phase of USPG?s work of Leadership Development and Working for Health."

> Janette O?Neill said:
> "I am really excited about taking on the
> leadership of USPG: Anglicans in World
> Mission.   I look forward to making and renewing
> relationships with USPG?s partners around the
> Anglican Communion, and to meeting its many
> faithful supporters in the dioceses and parishes here."

Bishop Michael Doe said:

"We are delighted with this appointment, which
completes the restructuring which we set in hand
last year.  All the staff are looking forward to
working with Janette as USPG faces the future
with renewed purpose and confidence."

For more information, contact: Anthony McKernan
on +44(0)7891 300 304

Biography

A history graduate from the University of Wales,
Janette has lived mostly overseas. Living in
Lesotho in Southern Africa from 1987 through to
1996, she worked first for Save the Children Fund
(UK) and then joined the Anglican Church in
Lesotho. Leading the Development office she was
responsible for implementing a variety of
community projects in health, agriculture,
education and social forestry. In 1998, after
completing a major research project into the
sustainability of health institutions owned by
the Anglican Church in Lesotho, Janette gained an
MBA from Warwick University (UK).

In 2000, Janette joined Episcopal Relief &

Development in New York, where as Senior Program
Advisor she helped advise the organization as it
shifted from traditional grant making to a
focused partnership model of supporting Anglican
churches in their development work.  This
included helping set policy and devise strategy
for HIV and AIDs programming in Africa, and
spearheading a policy for capacity building and
transformational development at provincial and national level.

The creation of Hope Africa in the Anglican

Church of Southern Africa and the consolidation
of the work of the Zambian Anglican Council were
two of the most successful outcomes of this
work.  As Senior Director of Africa, Janette also
worked with local partners to conceive and
develop the global gathering of Anglican
development partners in 2007: TEAM reviewed gains
in HIV programming and policy in the Anglican
Church in Africa and projected a global position
on the work of the Anglican Communion around the
world in addressing the Millennium Development
Goals. As Senior Director for Africa Janette also
designed the first phase of the NetsforLife
malaria control program, educating church
communities across seventeen national churches in
Africa on the causes and preventive treatments
for malaria, in the first phase reaching over three million people.

Most recently, Janette has been responsible for
the development of an integrated strategy for
Episcopal Relief & Development in post conflict
and fragile states, including DR Congo, Sudan,
and Liberia.  In all these efforts, Janette has
worked collaboratively with national and
provincial Anglican Church bodies, mission
sending agencies, and NGO stakeholders to promote
strategies that empower the church at the grass roots.

Janette is married to Derek, a tunnelling

engineer and has two sons ? Owen who works in New
York?s music and advertising industry and Morgan
who is an electronic engineering student at the University of Wales in Bang or.

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