Claire Colvin Email & Phone Number

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Abbotsford, Bc

As BC’s first campus of care-and now one of the largest, Menno Place offers a full range of housing and long-term care options. Over 700 seniors live on the 11 acre campus – from independent living to residential complex care. As part of the Resident Experience team I work directly with residents and their families to ensure that each person has what he or she needs to thrive at Menno Place.

As a freelancer I've leant my skills to a range of projects from articles and quick edits to a site-wide content overhaul. I've worked on research, original writing, script writing, editing, proofing and site organization. I've built a reputation for delivering great content on budget and ahead of schedule.• Wrote a profile of Garry Skidmore for issue 25 of Trinity Western Magazine - "You Can Have Mine"• Wrote the script and supervised all interviews for the Metzger Collection Introductory video (Columbia Bible College) • Created newsletters, articles, and other content• Redesigned and built a website for a local client

Vancouver, Bc

Stir is a full-service internet marketing agency. Since opening our doors in 2002, we’ve designed and implemented built-for-success campaigns for businesses and organizations the world over -- 327 clients in more than 14 countries and counting.Responsibilities include:• Project manager for multiple marketing campaigns for a variety of clients • Content creation – blog posts, ad copy, social media posts and online sweepstakes (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn)• Detailed statistical reporting and analysis (Sprout Social, Google Analytics)

As Senior Editor for powertochange.com I was involved in every aspect of content creation from strategy and planning to sourcing, writing, editing, and building.CREATIVITY• Wrote and edited hundreds of articles, promotional pieces, blog posts, reports, and social media posts to increase audience size and engagement• Developed stories and concepts for two documentaries, a six-part training series (Treasure) and other short videos • Created a study guide to accompany TreasureCRITICAL THINKING• Completely reworked a 35-day national training initiative to increase user success• Skilled in using Google Analytics to analyze audience behavior, predict content needs and build content strategyCOMMUNICATION• Ran the editorial calendar for PowertoChange.com co-ordinating, sourcing and scheduling content• Spearheaded new staff integration• Facilitated and refereed an active community of over 60K comments• Taught new software to staff COLLABORATION• Took a successful text-based training and re-imagined it as a video-based, online curriculum allowing users to complete the training in half the time• Developed and coached a team of volunteer writers• Worked alongside video editors to define and shape storiesPROFESSIONAL COMPETANCIES• Highly skilled in using Content Management Systems, particularly WordPress• Adept in planning and creating content for multiple audiences online, in print and in social media• Adaptable and agile in a fast-paced creative environment

I ran the editorial calendar for two sites, managing a team of online contributors and writing content as needed. During this time I helped create a Content License System for the organization and championed proper usage documentation for all of the content on our sites. I was responsible for writing promotional material both for print and online campaigns and used Interwoven to maintain several thousand pieces of content.

- research- creation, printing and distribution of a large mail campaign- general office duties