Jill currently serves as Deputy Chair on the Board of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, the Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of Australia. She served as the acting Executive Officer of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria. She is also currently a director on the Board of The Australian Arts Orchestra and Sacred Currents Music Festival.

Jill has a 20+ year history in the multicultural, arts advocacy and policy areas. She is a former Chief Executive Officer of Multicultural Arts Victoria and Executive Director of Kulcha, Multicultural Arts of Western Australia.   Jill is an active advocate and cultural and community leader in multiculturalism and the arts. .  She is deeply committed to ensuring equality of opportunity for all Australians, including newly emerged artists and communities and the right of all Australians to express and share their stories and cultural heritage through the arts.

She is currently working closely with First Nations artists and produced a First Nations work MEERTA for the Yirramboi Festival 2023. She has worked with Moondani Balluk Indigenous Unit and co-created "A Fight for Survival" with the Northland mob, built around the Gary Foley Collection from the Aboriginal history archive held at VU for the Yirramboi Festival 2021. She is keen for the ECCV to bring our multicultural communities together with our First Nations community to build greater understanding and create a better community  and social cohesion for all.

Her leadership and strategic acuity has been recognised through significant leadership awards in the arts, including: the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, which pays tribute to outstanding excellence in the Arts in Australia, Member Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the promotion of multicultural and indigenous art through leadership roles in arts organisations, and has received several Victorian Government Excellence Awards for her work in multiculturalism.