Jane Machin-Everill was appointed executive director of the Public Sector Commission in March 2018. Prior to that, she was the director of executive and communications services at the Department of Education and was responsible for corporate communications and marketing, ministerial and executive services. She joined the Department in 2002 in the communications and marketing area. Ms Machin-Everill also worked in the communications area of government agencies, universities and education sectors. She is a Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of Australia.