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Christchurch, Nz

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Contractor services (via Brannigan’s Flexible Workforce) assisting the Chief Corporate Services Officer to deliver people and capability projects while they recruit a Head of People and Capability.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Consultant services focused on assisting an executive leader to audit team workload and allocation, review and align position descriptions, create inductions plans, and develop a team knowledge base.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Consultant services helping executive teams and people leaders to operationalise people and culture projects that foster a positive work environment and increase employee capability and engagement. Drawing on 30 years’ expertise in design-thinking, communications, organisational development, and project management, I focus on utilising and strengthening the structures, systems, and skills already in place to help people and culture teams to “get shit done”.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Contractor services (via Brannigan’s Flexible Workforce) assisting the GM, People and Capability to deliver people and culture projects while they recruit a permanent person. Projects include delivering and reporting on their employee engagement survey, developing guidance to rollout their flexible ways of working implementation, employee relations support, contracts and recruitment support.

Christchurch Metropolitan Area

Three days a week providing HR advisory cover and consulting services on a short-term contract.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Content development services: One of three technical writing specialists creating written content for four e-learning modules and group sessions, aimed at primary and secondary teacher, to integrate the principles of the Ministry of Education’s new Physical Restraint guidelines into their teaching practices and learning environments.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Achievements:- As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, developed the direction and ensured oversight of company strategy and performance to establish national and state-wide government partnerships, increase global community growth, advance platform and system innovation, and expand clinical collaboration across health systems in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom.- Built a new integrated People and Culture portfolio focused on building talent acquisition and sustainability, employee performance development, change management, and organisational culture.- Designed a performance development planning system, providing employees with competency assessments, goal setting linked to organisational OKRs, and personalised learning plans.- Established a new talent acquisition process, structured enough to ensure managers followed HR best practice and flexible enough to empower managers to design recruitment approaches that target specialist sectors.

Christchurch

Achievements:Built and led a new team of high-performing communication and capability specialists responsible for: - developing communication strategies, frameworks, and best practice guidance for community-facing areas of the business. - delivering targeted internal and external communications that supported change management, specifically people, process, and product changes.- identifying capability gaps and scoping training needs for employees and community members, and developing online, blended, and face-to-face training induction programmes and content. - supporting a team of in-house trainers to deliver a train-the-trainer programme and induction programmes for employee onboarding.

Christchurch

Achievements:- Developed the Streamliners intranet, embedded social media platforms into daily communication outputs, established an internal chat platform (Slack), and established a crisis communications protocol. - Designed and built the HealthPathways Community website and built a collaborative relationship across a growing membership. - Organised three large, successful HealthPathways Conferences in Sydney, Christchurch, and Newcastle (NSW).

Christchurch

HealthPathways is an online manual used by clinicians to help make assessment, management, and specialist request decisions for over 550 conditions. Rather than being traditional guidelines, each pathway is an agreement between primary and specialist services on how patients with particular conditions will be managed in the local context. Achievements:- Liaised with clinical editors and subject matter experts and provided technical writing and editing services to HealthPathways regional teams located in New Zealand and Australia- Developed and implemented a two-year review schedule for the HealthPathways Canterbury website, which included designing a review process, communications plan, and review checklists.

Christchurch

Achievements:- Delivered a project plan and regular status reports to the project owner and advisors.- Supervised four project interns who completed a needs analysis and worked with academic subject matter experts to develop the content. - Created and implemented a comprehensive communications plan, including drafting all-student and all-staff emails, online announcements, social media announcements and rolling out print and online promotional collateral.

Christchurch

Achievements: - Implemented outcomes of the 2010 UC Print/Online Publishing Review, which reduced central printing costs by $130,000 and shifted the University’s publishing culture towards electronic and online communication. - Managed an operational budget of approximately $290,000/year, which included supplying monthly forecasting and spending reports.- Coordinated the production of the University’s international publications, realigning priority to targeted overseas markets and refocusing resources to online communication initiatives.- Created a new international recruitment suite and a new Undergraduate Prospectus, thereby reducing the University’s central undergraduate recruitment suite from 13 to a single publication.- Contributed to an Enrolment Project Group reviewing the University’s enrolment processes and communication, with the intention of redeveloping the Enrolment website and Enrolment Handbook.- Investigated print-on-demand and alternative online publishing options for larger publications, such as the University’s Calendar, and I expanded the XML-based single source publishing system to publish all University regulations as html pages and online print-on-demand formats, and online ‘rotating profiles’ on key College and Department home pages.

Christchurch

Achievements:- Managed a team of two full-time staff and one part-time casual.- Developed an annual operational plan and objectives that align with publishing strategies, Student Recruitment and Development Unit and University goals and objectives.- Managed an operational budget of approximately $350,000/year and created annual timeline of recruitment/enrolment publication requirements in consultation with key stakeholders.- Implemented an XML-based single source publishing system for the output of key publications and websites.

Christchurch

Achievements:- Project managed the update of the Enrolment Handbook (400 pages) and Calendar (840 pages) and assisted with publishing the First Qualifications brochures, Accommodation Guide, Student Guide, Postgraduate Prospectus, summer degree courses, Wall Calendar.- Identified photographic needs and arranging photoshoots for the Accommodation Guide, and contributed to cross-team projects, such as the People Publishing, Qualifications Publisher, and Content Management System projects.- Developed and maintained Publications Team intranet and websites, particularly the Courses, Subjects and Qualifications, Enrolment, Publications websites.

Fiji

Achievements:- As Acting Director, maintained the marketing and communications goals and overall strategic plan for the Marketing and Public Relations Office, and coordinated the day-to-day running of the office until a new Director was appointed in 2005.- Designed and oversaw the implementation of a consistent corporate brand for the design and editorial content of the University’s core recruitment and promotional publications.- Wrote and designed a fleet of new publications and a range of promotional material under the emerging corporate brand.- Supervised the workload of junior staff and provided internal design and desktop publishing training.

Postgraduate Certificate In Design Enterprise

Graduate Diploma In Information Design, Information Design

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Communication And Media Studies