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Roles and responsibilities include: - Collaborating with stakeholders to identify community needs and opportunities.- Overseeing the successful execution of programs, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets.- Managing the evaluation of all community programs and providing stakeholders with measurable, targeted impact reports, continually innovating and demonstrating growth.- Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, including community organisations, schools, partners, and sponsors.- Preparing funding applications aligned with program goals and objectives.- Developing and managing program budgets, ensuring efficient resource allocation.- Establishing and leading mutually beneficial partnerships with the community and all funding stakeholders, ensuring the impacts and outcomes offer shared value for both parties.- Leadingthe operations of the Community department including staffing, budgets, and reporting.- Consistently seeking out industry and sector leading examples and learning best practice to continue to enhance the SUNS’ connection to community and stakeholders.- Identifying new program and event opportunities with key internal and external stakeholders that will provide for commercial support and growth.

The University Of Melbourne

Roles and Responsibilities include:- Educational program design and delivery.- Writing Request For Quotes (RFQs), proposals and grants.- Liaising with education departments and key stakeholders.- Outreach to schools.- Working with data collection, reporting and evaluation programs through digital tools such as Qualtrics, Google Forms, Survey Monkey and CRM programs. - Research and development of curriculum materials..- Delivering virtual sessions using mediums such as Canvas, Zoom, Teams, StreamYard, Google Meets and WebEx.- Creating engaging youth content through web tools such as Padlet, Miro, Mentimeter, Flip Grid etc.- Budget management.- Strategic planning and implementation of new programs.- Writing copy, including press releases, one-sheets, reports and articles.

Learning Specialist (Global Education) and Classroom Music Teacher.Key Skills:- Providing a safe, nurturing classroom and school environment that helps students to develop as learners- Multi-age curriculum planning and assessment alignment.- Strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting and resourcing. - Teaching engaging and effective lessons that motivate, inspire and improve student attainment.- Monitoring student outcomes and providing regular reporting and feedback to track progress and improve student performance.- Demonstrated experience in an education leadership role, managing and mentoring teams, with a strong commitment to professional development, both for others and myself.

Melbourne, Australia

Host/producer of a weekly radio show featuring interviews with artists from across the world.

Writer of feature stories, interviews and reviews. Published across partner publications including Melbourne’s Inpress, Sydney and Perth’s The Drum Media and Brisbane’s Time Off.

Graduate Diploma Of Education (Primary)

Bachelor Of The Arts (Music Business)

Advanced Diploma Of Music Industry (Business)

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