Jo is the Engagement Programmes Manager in Biosecurity New Zealand’s Pest Management Directorate. She is responsible for a range of partnership programmes including the regional biosecurity collaborations, Tauranga Moana Biosecurity Capital and Biosecurity Taranaki, and the Biosecurity Business Pledge. She also leads a team of behaviour change, engagement, communication and marketing specialists supporting long-term pest management programmes.

Prior to this role Jo was MPIs senior engagement advisor for the Ko Tātou This Is Us programme. Prior to joining MPI, Jo was the Director of Conventions and Events at Wellington Venues and worked at the communications consultancy agency Acumen as the Group Account Director responsible for leading their national events team.