June Rout is the Project Manager for the Welcoming Communities New Zealand programme, based in the Settlement Unit of Immigration New Zealand at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
June has previously worked as a print journalist, a social worker and a trainer, including managing a job search skills courses for recently-arrived migrants at the North Perth Migrant Resource Centre in Western Australia. She also worked in Tonga as a teacher for Volunteer Services Abroad.
More recently June has worked as a Senior Policy Advisor and Project Manager for a number of New Zealand Government ministries.