She’s spent the past 44 years looking after those in crisis, now Uniting Wyndham chief executive Carol Muir is embracing her latest endeavour – retirement.
Ms Muir, who has spent more than 20 years of her career in the Wyndham area, earlier worked for 17 years with the state government, including as a probationary officer for children and women in the eastern suburbs.
She managed the community services department at Wyndham council for five years before taking on Werribee Support and Housing, as it was then called, at a time when the government of the day was going to merge small support agencies to make them viable.
Ms Muir’s role was expected to facilitate the change. Then, there was a change in government, her staff numbers grew and more funding came in.
Senior housing worker Jackie Ceratti said Ms Muir was instrumental in securing $15 million in state government funding for the H3 Wyndham Alliance to help more than 1700 people doing it tough in the area.
Ms Muir, who moved to Wyndham in 1990, said she had loved working and living in the same community.
“Once it’s in your blood, it’s in your blood,” she said.
“I didn’t live here [when I first started], I lived in the eastern suburbs, but there’s something different and unique about public welfare in the western region.”
Ms Muir, who finished up at Uniting Wyndham last Friday, has no immediate plans during her retirement. Her successor has yet to be appointed.
