Career of the Week

Dawn McLean-Sawney, Human Resources

Friday,  January 27, 2006

There are never enough hours in the day for Dawn McLean-Sawney, Human Resource Manager at the Department of Immigration. 

Being a workaholic, Mrs McLean-Sawney spends most of her days taking on the Herculean tasks of liaising with frontline officers and managers in the department; organising staff training and office socials; and helping to put a human face on the Department.

“Yes the Immigration Officers protect our borders and our laws but nobody outside of their families sees them as humans,” she told the Cayman Net News.

That is where she comes in. She wants to ensure that the residents understand the kind of stress the Immigration Officers go through to do their jobs and to have an appreciation for the work they do.

Mrs McLean-Sawney, who was born in New York to parents from Cayman Brac, has been working in the field of Human Resources for 15 years. She started working in the HR department at Cayman Airways in 1991. There she moved up the ladder after a few years to head the department.

In 1996, she went to Treasure Island where she spent a year before going back to the US. Mrs McLean-Sawney came back to the Cayman Islands in 2003 to spend time with her ailing mother and landed a job as head of human resource in the Immigration Department. 

She is also the 2004 recipient of the Chief Immigration Officer Award.

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