Chris Mcwilliams Email & Phone Number

London, Uk, Global

Widely experienced strategic communications consultant and freelance writer available to work on exciting projects with forward-thinking organisations and like-minded collaborators in all sectors.ALNAPConsultant | May 2023 - currentRUTGERS INTERNATIONAL Consultant | August 2021 - current- Copywriting for English website of this Dutch sexual health organisation. Developed editorial style and tone of voice guidelines and sexual health reports. Ghostwriting for executive directors.AFRICAN FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT Consultant | November 2019 – current- Copyediting programme reports, policy briefs and event promotional materials, social media posts, managing production of multimedia communications materials, email newsletters and other digital marketing. BLACK EQUITY ORGANISATION Editorial consultant | April 2022 -- Web copywriting ahead of the launch of new UK civil rights organisation. PLAN INTERNATIONAL Editorial consultant | March 2022 - - Copywriting for communications materials around Ukraine response. HUMENTUM - African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA), Ghana Consultant | September – December 2021 - With funding from the Gates Foundation, supported AfHEA to develop its first ever communications strategy. COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT Editorial consultant | March – June 2021 - Producing summaries of evaluation reports of Commonwealth Secretariat programmes. Topics covered include democracy, climate change, countering violent extremism and gender. LEONARD CHESHIRE Communications and learning consultant | April 2020 – March 2022- Hands-on support and oversight of communications and learning activities for programmes focusing on disability and inclusive employment for women and men in Kenya and Bangladesh. FRONTLINE AIDS - PITCH programme Communications consultant | October 2019 – December 2020 - Gathering, writing case studies demonstrating advocacy achievements, copyediting of major programme reports.

England, United Kingdom

- Hands-on support and oversight of all communications activities for this feminist global development organisation: including development and launch of new organisational strategy Our Feminist Future: Strategy 2030, annual impact report, regular fundraising appeals, content gathering, website and social media.- Leading communications in preparation for International Women’s Day 2023 and CSW 2023, including working on two parallel events at CSW and attending the conference in New York.- Overseeing the development of Womankind’s new communications strategy Deepening Our Storytelling and an associated content strategy, establishing and embedding streamlined, sustainable ways of working and exploring how storytelling can be made more participatory, inclusive, partner-led and co-created. The aim is to amplify the collective voices and perspectives of women’s rights activists, organisations and movements through appropriate communications channels, making them more powerful and influential in demanding change.

London, United Kingdom

- Wide experience of developing strategic communications plans for major donor-funded projects and providing oversight and hands-on support in their delivery, including developing and managing budgets and resourcing plans.- Leading communications plan delivery on DFID-funded programmes including SABI Sierra Leone, STAR-Ghana, Voice to the People, Nigeria, and ECRP, Malawi. - Providing extensive strategic communications support for more than 25 Christian Aid country programmes, developing Christian Aid’s international communications toolkit which enables teams to work towards their own strategic communications and visibility plans, aligned with their objectives, identifying target stakeholders and audiences, messaging and communication activities. - Advising and supporting programmes to develop impactful digital and media relationsactivities to communicate impact and Christian Aid’s track record and expertise.- Helping programme teams produce local communications collateral to supportcommunication and programme activities, drawing on Christian Aid’s in-house editorial/design support and template systems. - Communications capacity building for colleagues and partners, on donor-funded programmes, and within Christian Aid country teams, through training and mentoring.- Regular interaction with other organisations and external consultants and within consortia to deliver high-quality communications.

London, United Kingdom

- Wide experience of developing strategic communications plans for major donor-funded projects and providing oversight and hands-on support in their delivery, including developing and managing budgets and resourcing plans.- Leading communications plan delivery on DFID-funded programmes including SABI Sierra Leone, STAR-Ghana, Voice to the People, Nigeria, and ECRP, Malawi. - Providing extensive strategic communications support for more than 25 Christian Aid country programmes, developing Christian Aid’s international communications toolkit which enables teams to work towards their own strategic communications and visibility plans, aligned with their objectives, identifying target stakeholders and audiences, messaging and communication activities. - Advising and supporting programmes to develop impactful digital and media relationsactivities to communicate impact and Christian Aid’s track record and expertise.- Helping programme teams produce local communications collateral to supportcommunication and programme activities, drawing on Christian Aid’s in-house editorial/design support and template systems. - Communications capacity building for colleagues and partners, on donor-funded programmes, and within Christian Aid country teams, through training and mentoring.- Regular interaction with other organisations and external consultants and within consortia to deliver high-quality communications.

- Wide experience of developing strategic communications plans for major donor-funded projects and providing oversight and hands-on support in their delivery, including developing and managing budgets and resourcing plans.- Leading communications plan delivery on DFID-funded programmes including SABI Sierra Leone, STAR-Ghana, Voice to the People, Nigeria, and ECRP, Malawi. - Providing extensive strategic communications support for more than 25 Christian Aid country programmes, developing Christian Aid’s international communications toolkit which enables teams to work towards their own strategic communications and visibility plans, aligned with their objectives, identifying target stakeholders and audiences, messaging and communication activities. - Advising and supporting programmes to develop impactful digital and media relationsactivities to communicate impact and Christian Aid’s track record and expertise.- Helping programme teams produce local communications collateral to supportcommunication and programme activities, drawing on Christian Aid’s in-house editorial/design support and template systems. - Communications capacity building for colleagues and partners, on donor-funded programmes, and within Christian Aid country teams, through training and mentoring.- Regular interaction with other organisations and external consultants and within consortia to deliver high-quality communications.

London, United Kingdom

- Refreshed communications strategy, brand identity and messaging of this international HIV charity, leading effective engagement with media, donors and other key stakeholders.- Developed brand guidelines - Proactive/reactive media management. - Delivered communications training for programme teams in sub-Saharan Africa. - Content gathering- Event management

Canterbury, United Kingdom

- Worked with conservators, fundraisers, and the Cathedral community to originate, develop and pitch high impact stories to the media.- Worked to detailed PR strategy to build profile of the charity locally, nationally and internationally. - Copywriting for grant applications, website, charity literature, internal information systems. Researching and writing all media releases. - Design and production of marketing collateral.- Management of the charity’s website and wider web presence.

Adelaide, Australia

- Leadership role with team of six. Member of diocesan senior management team.- Wide experience in crisis media management of highly sensitive issues.- Managed communications and media support and advice at all levels – archbishop, chief executive, Catholic Education South Australia, 100 headteachers, welfare and health agency managers.- Managed major media campaigns, including launch of Australia’s first 6 Green-Star rated building VS1 (2006-08) and Adelaide’s events for World Youth Day 2008.- Media handling at events, press conferences and photocalls.- Appearing on radio and television and in print as an official diocesan spokesman.- Key strategic role in engaging with communities through better communications, including innovation and new media.- Writing op-ed pieces, statements and reports for senior staff.- Oversaw refresh of branding and internal communications.- Editor of monthly diocesan newspaper and responsible for all other publications.- Organised and hosted Archbishop’s Media Awards and Australian Catholic Press Association annual conference.

Various

- Working closely with news editors to produce news, celebrity and human interest stories for national newspapers including Daily Mirror, The Times and Sunday Mail.- Sunday People: reporting on wide range of hard news, politics and entertainment and more or less everything else.- Daily experience on three-edition Colchester Evening Gazette. Worked also for Braintree and Witham Times, Chelmsford Weekly News. - Wide experience of court reporting, crime, sport, features, hard news, education, health and politics.- Covered 2001 General Election and the Stansted air crash.

Christian Aid Management Development Programme (Mdp)

I am a graduate of Christian Aid's management development programme, accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management. I completed.

National Certificate Exam (Nce) In Newspaper Journalism

Preliminary Exams In Newspaper Journalism

Ba Combined Hons, History And Politics