Perform an extensive array of administrative tasks (manage calendars, book travel, and schedule facilities and equipment).Plan and execute events (Townhall presentations, offsites, leadership meetings) by coordinating content creation, organizing fun events, identifying speakers, etc.Coordinate duties for multiple offices.Build efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help define new operational strategies.Serve as a technical lead for and manager of small projects.Mentor and support new team members.

• Develop and execute SIIs media strategy across all media, including press, broadcast and publications to raise the profile of SII• Lead on copy-writing and production of SII publications including the bi-yearly SII magazine, Corporate Sponsorship letters & proposals, press releases, and Case for Support documents• Responsibility for the development and management of SIIs website, including keeping content up to date and appropriate, and making improvements to functionality • Develop and expand on SIIs social media strategy to raise the profile of SII and to market its activities• Develop and monitor brand guidelines and key messages• Lead on the copy-writing and production of monthly e-Zines• Lead on the collation of information of personal stories/case studies for our magazine, website, social media and e-Zines• Organise SII information days/press conferences/photocalls/events as necessary

• Plan and write the Dublin City Gazette newspaper on a weekly basis• Liaise with prominent politicians, county councillors, businesses, charities, PR companies, homeless organisations, drug clinics, Dublin City Council, local people and many more contacts on a daily basis• Adhere to strict weekly deadlines• Report on crime, politics, local and city wide events, current affairs, feature articles and many more topics on a weekly basis• Maintain and build up my contacts on an ongoing basis • As Food Editor, I review restaurants around Dublin on a weekly basis and compile them for the seven newspapers within the Gazette Group• I also compile weekly food news pages which involves keeping up to date on new restaurant openings in the city centre, new menus, new food product launches, and interviewing prominent chefs in various restaurants around the city

• Plan and write an 80+ page magazine on a monthly basis• Edit and sub-edit copy for the magazine• Commission freelance writers to write CPD articles and features for the magazine• Liaise with prominent figures in the pharmaceutical world including CEOs of global pharmaceutical companies, CEOs of group pharmacies such as LloydsPharmacy group and McCabes pharmacy group, Managing Directors of independent pharmacies, Doctors, GPs, Pharmacists, Trinity College Professors, UCC & RCSI Professors, The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, The Irish Institute of Pharmacy, The Irish Pharmacy Union, PIER, IMS Health, and many other high profile businesses and business people• Build up and maintain relationships with prominent business and pharmacy professionals • Adhere to strict deadlines on a monthly basis and work very well under pressure• Source ideas and images for the magazine on a monthly basis• Travel nationwide to meet pharmacists and other Pharmacy professionals to build up and maintain close working relationships

• Plan and write over half the content of the magazine with the Editor.• Generate fresh ideas for recipes and features that will work well in the magazine.• Find images for the recipes in the magazine.• Proof-read, edit, and sub-edit the entire magazine.• Proficient on InDesign.• Meet strict deadlines and work very well under pressure.• Work closely with our designers so that the magazine looks and reads well.

• I write weekly pages in the magazine on all topics related to women - consumer pages, interior pages, travel articles, food and recipe pages, real life interviews, cover interviews, and I organise weekly makeovers for the magazine.• Generate fresh ideas for feature articles and stories on a weekly basis.• Adhere to strict deadlines each week and meet them accordingly.• Edit and sub-edit content for the magazine.• Strong writing skills and the ability to work well under pressure.• Writing and taking part in a domestic abuse campaign in association with Womens Aid, Cosc, Age Action, Childline, and Amen.• Plan and organise cover shoots for the magazine on an ongoing basis.This involves organising a photography studio or shoot location, photographer, make-up artist, hair stylist, and a cover star.• Liase with PR companies on a daily basis to develop ideas and relationships between our magazine and their company.• In my role as Picture Editor I search a wide range of images each week for our cover image in the magazine. I then choose the image and organise the use of it on our cover. In this role I also negotitate ongoing deals with a range of picture agencies from Ireland and the UK, and I keep track of all the images we use, where they came from, and how much they cost to use.• Working in Harmonia/Woman's Way has also given me great experience when it comes to planning and organising events. In the last four years I've worked as part of a team to organise our first Woman's Way Live show in the RDS in 2012, the annual Mum of the Year awards in the Westin Hotel, and I organised the Woman’s Way Makeovers for the annual Ultimate Girls Day Out event in the RDS for the last three years.• In my role as Staff Editor I've also had some amazing opportunities such as travelling to Gonaives in Nothern Haiti to report on the ongoing work out there to rebuild the country, four months after the earthquake hit in 2010.

• Spoke as Travel Editor of Woman's Way magazine as part of Travelmedia's programme The Travel Show.• Spoke live on air for 30 minutes about various countries around the world, what to see and do in them, where to visit, gave tips and advice etc.• Took part in panel discussions on air with other travel industry professionals.• Wrote up tips and advice for Travelmedia which are displayed on Travelmedia's Facebook page.

Reported on events such as: • The Rose of Tralee Festival • The 2007 Elections • Kathy O’Beirne story (ongoing feud about a woman who wrote a controversial book about surviving a Magdalene Laundry in 70’s Ireland) • Conflict in the Lebanon • Interviews with many prominent sporting and national personalities • In my role as a news reporter in the Clondalkin Gazette I also came up with fresh stories on a weekly basis and wrote colour pieces every week on events happening around Clondalkin.• Took part in weekly meetings about news and feature lists.• I wrote business profiles on up and coming business people.• I reviewed movies for our entertainment section.• I also wrote the majority of the property section on a weekly basis.