Mitsubishi Pencil marketing manager Claire O'Driscoll is leaving the office products industry to take up a new role with national community organisation Good Shepherd Microfinance.
After nearly eight years at Mitsubishi Pencil, O'Driscoll told Stationery News that she is looking forward to "a new challenge and the opportunity to help improve social justice for low income households".
Good Shepherd Microfinance aims to help financially disadvantaged people through the "innovative delivery of microfinance solutions".
"They are at the forefront of assisting Australians on low and limited incomes to define and then realise their own aspirational well-being," O'Driscoll said. "Financial inclusion, and especially microfinance, plays a key role in enabling strength-based community development, creating better connected communities."
Good Shepherd Microfinance works with over 220 accredited agencies in over 400 locations across Australia. Over the past five years, Good Shepherd Microfinance has assisted more than 60,000 Australians access affordable loans.
O'Driscoll added that Mitsubishi Pencil is looking at a restructure of its marketing department in the new year.
