Lalor MP and Prime Minister Julia Gillard last week named 40 'People of Australia' ambassadors around the nation, congratulating them for promoting inclusion in their communities.

Ten Victorians were named, including Sunshine Heights-Western Tigers Soccer Club player-coach, David Nyuol Vincent.

Other ambassadors working or living in the west include Victoria University community engagement adviser and co-ordinator Elleni Bereded-Samuel; Australian Somali Football Association founder Ahmed Dini; Wyndham Community and Education Centre chief executive Jennifer Barrera; and Point Cook resident and Australian women's soccer team captain Melissa Barbieri.

The leaders will use their roles to promote their work in local communities and advise the federal government and the Australian Multicultural Council. The ambassador program is part of the government's new multicultural policy announced last year.

Mr Vincent said it was a great honour.

He was born in Sudan, but his family was forced to flee the country when he was three following the breakout of civil war in 1983. He lived in refugee camps for about 18 years before moving to Australia in 2004.

Now employed as a community liaison officer with the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne, he has worked as a human rights ambassador for the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission.

Mr Vincent has worked tirelessly to help Sudanese migrants settle in the country and is player-coach of the Sunshine Heights-Western Tigers club, which is made up of Sudanese youths.

He believes the ambassadorial role will open doors for his community.

"I will give the Sudanese community here a voice by advising the government on the many issues our people have in trying to settle," he said.

"Many young people in the community drop out of school and end up using drugs or being involved in crime because they don't have anything to do."

His role will include speaking at public events, including on Harmony Day, March 21.

"I will be trying to make people who are new to the country feel welcome and I'll do my best to promote multiculturalism," Mr Vincent said.