Jane Ndove has over a decade of experience across public health, housing and homelessness, community safety, and social and community services. She has held a range of senior executive leadership positions, from project management and senior management roles through to Chief Executive Officer. Jane has extensive experience working alongside Aboriginal community-controlled organisations and remote communities, and other non-indigenous vulnerable groups, with expertise spanning mental health and suicide prevention, alcohol and other drugs, child and family health, homelessness services, justice reinvestment, health promotion, and governance.
Jane has supported organisations she’s worked with to successfully secure and manage funding for assertive outreach initiatives assisting people experiencing homelessness and complex disadvantage.
Jane is currently the Senior Executive Manager – Suicide Prevention and Health Promotion Unit at the Mental Health Association of Central Australia (MHACA), where she leads mental health promotion, suicide prevention, workforce development, and applied research initiatives across Central Australia. She also oversees the Living Skills Project, a pilot research initiative examining the causes of tenancy breakdown and eviction among people living in public and social housing, with the aim of strengthening tenancy support and preventing homelessness across Central Australia and the Northern Territory.
Jane also serves as a Sessional Community Visitor with the Northern Territory Community Visitor Program, administered through the Anti-Discrimination Commission under the Northern Territory Attorney-General’s Department, providing independent oversight and advocacy to protect the rights, safety, and wellbeing of people receiving mental health and disability services in Alice Springs.
An active Tennant Creek E-Outback Rotarian, Jane is passionate about strengthening communities, advancing social equity, and supporting practical, community-led solutions that create lasting social impact.
She holds a Master of Health Promotion and Public Health, a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Peace and Governance (International Relations), a Diploma of Project Management, a Diploma of Leadership and Management, and is a trained mediator with other qualifications in child and family psychology, mental health and alcohol and other drugs.
