Nikita’s expertise encompasses end-to-end evaluation, policy design, strategic reviews, and research. At dandolo, Nikita works across a range of portfolio areas including human and social services, school and tertiary education, and health. As a passionate advocate for social and economic inclusion, she brings a people-centred and empathic approach to all her engagements, building rapport with stakeholders.

Prior to joining dandolo, Nikita worked at the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness, and Housing where she led on large-scale gender equality reform, in for-purpose consulting across a range of policy areas that focused on system change, and the not-for-profit sector.

Nikita is also a member of the Australian Evaluation Society.

Influential work at dandolo:

• Evaluating a school-based health initiative to support young people to recognise, understand, and manage pelvic pain for a not-for-profit

• Evaluating a co-design project to translate an evidence-based framework to support prevention of violence against women and children with a disability

• Evaluating the Digital Skills Cadetship Trial pilot funded by the Commonwealth Government

• Evaluating a strategy designed to support the safety and wellbeing of the education workforce

• Supporting an expert panel to present a new vision for a state’s senior secondary school pathways

• Developed a funding proposal for a large national health not-for-profit

• Leading a business case for to consolidate a state government’s approach to student mental health and wellbeing

Nikita has a Master of Development Studies from The University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Mathematics and Finance from The University of York.