Bec Lloyd Email & Phone Number

Remote (Brisbane)

Brought in as a communications consultant, assisted as A/Mgr Media while recruitment underway.Recent work:- completed AEMC annual report to meet extensive compliance requirements- manage weekly newsletter process- coordinate and support team members in high volume comms environment- liaise within AEMC and with other market bodies- oversee media liaison- maintain an ever-changing communications planner and reports to executive- negotiate final news announcements with economists and other energy specialists to ensure complex materials are presented in an engaging and accessible way.Working full time and remotely from Sunshine Coast, Queensland, with a Sydney-based office.

Remote

Brought in as a communications consultant, I'm currently assisting AEMC as A/Mgr for media and other content while recruitment is underway. Recent work:- completed AEMC annual report to meet extensive compliance requirements- manage weekly newsletter process- coordinate and support team members in high volume comms environment- liaise within AEMC and with other market bodies- oversee media liaison- maintain an ever-changing communications planner and reports to executive- negotiate final news announcements with economists and other energy specialists to ensure complex materials are presented in an engaging and accessible way.Working full time and remotely from Sunshine Coast, Queensland, with a Sydney-based office.

Australia

I am the founder and managing director of Bec & Call Communication, Australia’s leading communication consultancy for the school and early childhood education sector. I hold a current Cert IV Training and Assessment and can customise generic business and marketing units of competency to meet education sector requirements.Bec & Call is your 'missing link': meeting a new and growing demand for experienced communication strategy and training support in the education sector. My clients include state government agencies across Australia, school and parent organisations, early childhood and outside school hours education and care services, curriculum and e-learning developers, and peak bodies.While I trained as a newspaper journalist, I moved into corporate communication in the mid 1990s and have supported educators and policy makers for many years. I have extensive experience advising and producing high quality communication strategies for Boards, statutory authorities, regulatory bodies and government Ministers.Before founding Bec & Call, I established and led all communication and stakeholder engagement functions for the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) from that agency’s creation in 2011. I hold a Graduate Certificate in Communication (Organisational Communication) from Charles Sturt University and received the NSW Board of Studies Service Medal in 2010. www.becncall.com.auABN 21 168 535 340m 0477 300 222 e bec@becncall.com.au

Australia

UnYucky Families is the brainchild and fun side-project of Bec Lloyd, a writer, home cook, communication specialist , and mum-of-three awesome young adults who, like most human beings, don't like every single food on the planet.Bec grew up in a family that only ate together on Christmas Day, when the table inevitably became a battleground of relative strangers. Determined her own family of five wouldn’t fall into the same habits, Bec still struggled to get meal times working until she learned one simple thing that flipped everything she’d been told upside down.“There’s huge pressure on us as parents to make our kids eat well, eat enough, eat nicely, but almost all the advice you get has it backwards. We’re told that if our kids eat their peas we’ll be happy, but the reality is that if meal times are happy there’s an excellent chance your kids will eat their peas.”Bec’s knowledge of early childhood education and wellbeing principles, nutritional study and network of cooks in children’s services – along with being a writer, a foodie and a mum – make UnYucky stand out from the hundreds of Australian programs designed to build healthy eating habits.She believes there’s one thing every family has that makes children happy at meal times: interested adults. UnYucky helps you to be that adult and build habits that will change your children’s lives forever.THE FLAWSOME FAMILY MEALBOOK IS OUT NOW! “I couldn’t have written this book or created the UnYucky program when my kids were little – I was too busy, too tired, and stretched way too thin covering everyone else’s needs and barely holding it together myself. I still feel like that sometimes, but I can see the habits we developed as a young family help hold us together now as my children become young adults. I finally have the time to share what we learned.”READ MORE ABOUT BEC HEREhttps://unyucky.com/about/GET THE BOOK HEREhttps://unyucky.com/shop/

Sydney

ACECQA is the national authority charged with supporting and monitoring the implementation of the new National Quality Framework for children's education and care services.The Communications and Engagement Group comprises three teams.Media and Communities - responsible for mainstream and social media, our website, public events and internal communications.Strategic Communication - responsible for our formal stakeholder engagement, including the national ACECQA Forum, as well as presentations and sponsorship and the inaugural National Quality Framework Conference in 2013 which sold out to 1000 participants even before the early bird period expired. Business Communications - responsible for information management through our customer service desk and the National Quality Agenda IT System, a complex online business management system for Australia's 13,000 childcare services and state and territory regulatory authorities.

North Sydney

Managed a small but high-powered internal team and PR consultancies in Australia and New Zealand. Dealt with media inquiries, company promotional campaigns and government liaison over Sydney docking arrangements.

Media liaison, issues management, event support and internal communication advice.

Responsible for corporate communication, including media, events and stakeholder communication, for the Office of the Board of Studies NSW.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Led a team that completely changed the Board's approach to communicating its services to the public. We took a community and family-friendly approach to information, developed student-centred articles for the website, and converted a traditional print gazette to a modern electronic newsletter. I established what we believe was Australia's first government Twitter account and the whole team took an innovative and enthusiastic approach to sharing the fantastic work of NSW BOS.

Managed a multi-disciplinary team of public affairs, internal communications and publishing staff. We delivered the high quality monthly teacher magazine 'inform' and managed strategic communication activities such as:- the first Public Education Day, a historic joint activity with the NSW Teachers Federation- a major television advertising campaign for public education, 'Teach Your Children Well'- a huge overhaul of Sydney secondary schooling, 'Building Their Future', which saw the creation of new high schools such as the Sydney Secondary College with its now iconic senior campus at Blackwattle Bay in Glebe.

North Coast Nsw (Telecommute, Sydney Office)

North Coast Nsw

Worked in a start-up North Coast office to establish connections between DETC and local industry and VET providers. Developed reports to assist planning for training provision in the region from the Queensland border south to Port Macquarie.