Deborah Ricketts Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Australia

At Versatile VA - We offer a broad range of outsourced marketing solutions, including social media management, strategy planning, online systems training, content creation (including branded imagery, writing articles, blogs and business documentation). We work with small businesses in the growth phase, providing vital support to facilitate business growth, whilst reducing the pressures of running a small business. Our goal is for everything we create, produce, report, communicate and develop, including building and maintaining lasting relationships, be representative of our mission to be ethical, transparent, authentic, packed with integrity, collaborative, and outcome-driven to provide a second to a none service experience. We take on our clients business as if it were our own. We also introduce productivity initiatives through researching, proposing and implementing streamlined systems and processes that give our clients back more time so they can focus on their core business and ultimately make more money.

Sydney

• Provide Paralegal and office admin and marketing support for lawyers

Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia

6 month contract -responsible for writing and submitting grants for the organisation.Major Responsibilities:Responsible for conducting the full range of activities required to prepare, submit, and manage grant proposals to foundation and corporate sources.Perform prospect research on foundations and corporations to evaluate prospects for corporate and foundation grants.Work with finance and program operations to gather information necessary to report to corporate/foundation funders on current grant programs.Comply with all grant reporting as required by foundation/corporate donors.

Drafting willsOrganising Legal education session eventConveyancing supportscheduling client meetings & diary managementinvoicingfiling

Develop and conduct training courses with key stakeholders, including vendors, Certification Bodies, Woolworths QA and Buyers across all business divisions. The aim of these sessions was to raise awareness of the Woolworths’ Ethical sourcing standards and Quality & Ethical audit program and the impact the program has to our suppliers, our brand, the factory workers and our customers. Identified and implemented key changes to audit process to create enhancements and efficiencies in outcome, as well as customising reports to key stakeholders to ensure changed business focus achieved.Lead and train and empower a team of three Compliance Officers who are responsible for ethical sourcing administration in each business unit, and ensure data accuracy for 1000+ factory audits.Working with senior internal stakeholders to deliver best practice governance & benchmarking standards in ethical auditing, with consideration for programs such as SEDEX and GSCP through on-going research, analysis, development and implementation of policies, practices and systems.  Reporting for Corporate Responsibility Publicly disclosed report and other key internal reports such as ‘At-Risk’ factories.

Pennant Hills

Working on large scale logistics projects including: decommissioning 3 Distribution Centres and the construction of a new Distribution Centre in Tasmania as a joint venture with a 3rd party retailer.Assist Project Manager with Meat project in WA to build a new meat processing plant and assist with overflow solutions for the existing abattoir facilities and DC. Lamb Carrier Transport Contract project – key stakeholders: legal, Large scale transport carrier companies, and primary and secondary transport divisions (internal)Distribution Centre Dock Safety Project – Implementing new OH&S measures within the DC. 3rd party relationship management and managing conflict of interest between internal stakeholders to ensure that the best OH&S approach implemented.Assist PM in ensuring projects adhere to standard project management principlesArrange and facilitate project meetings, taking minutes where required and distribution to all key stakeholders.Assist with the development of presentations required for either operational or executive stakeholdersIdentify and draft business requirementsFormally report on project progress including program, time, costs, resources, budgets, deliverables, risks, issues and dependencies

St Leonards

Manage contractual relationships, attending meetings with large scale clients (some interstate) to report on KPI’s and SLA’s, monthly invoice review spreadsheets (cost control / management), OH&S incidents and compliance, service issues, DRP’s (Disaster Recovery Plans), work in progress, pricing, negotiating terms and general compliance; Maintain contract database for both client contracts and subcontractor agreements;Legal contract drafting and reviewing;Internal policy drafting to ensure trade practices & OH&S compliance, advising management of facility improvements to ensure a safe work environment;Ensuring contractors and internal engineers & locksmiths are OH&S inducted, adhering to all clients requirements including internal site inductions, AIP (Australian Institute of Petroleum) client specific inductions and appropriate attire in accordance with PPE requirements. Training internal staff and subcontractors of their compliance and accreditation requirements, in accordance with legislative and contractual obligations within the industry;Leadership and management of service team including recruitment of staff, goal setting, motivation and morale boosting, performance & pay reviews, reviewing, approving and processing invoices as support for service team and establishing data management systems

Graduate Diploma In Legal Practice, Law

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb) And Bachelor Of Legal & Justice Studies (Bljs), Majored In Licensed Conveyancing And Criminal Law

Higher School Certificate

Bachelor Of Laws - Llb, Law