Emma El-Sahn Email & Phone Number

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Working as the communications manager on the largest metering programme in Europe. I was responsible for the overall stakeholder engagement strategy, including customer collateral, customer journeys, incident management, stakeholder engagement with elected representatives, organisations and the public.

Dublin, Ireland

Emma is an Associate Director for RPS Project Communications in Dublin and is Head of Stakeholder Consultation within the Project Communications team. Emma is project manager for several projects. She specialises in project management of large multi-disciplinary project and the development of online communication solutions for clients. She has worked on a number of projects, such as The Change Campaign, the national campaign on climate change, Notice Nature, the Dublin Biological Project, the Dublin Region Watermains Rehabilitation Project, and the Water Supply Project (Dublin Region).

Project Manager on the Project Communications team, which manages a number of different consultation/ awareness programmes:The National Campaign on Climate Change- member of the National Campaign on Climate Change project team, the national communication strategy aimed at increasing awareness on the issue of Climate Change, and turning awareness into action. Specific roles will include liaising with stakeholders, organising study tours for the press, managing the strategy for the education sector, presenting at seminars, dealing with public queries on a range of environmental topics and, regular drafting and compilation of text for information materials and the Website.The National Biodiversity Campaign- Notice Nature Year 2, Managing the national awareness campaign on biodiversity entitled ‘Notice Nature’ aimed at increasing the awareness of biodiversity issues. Specific roles on the project include: Development of ‘Notice Nature’ website· Liaising with stakeholders· Drafting and supervising production of information material· Training & awareness raising with key sectors.The Dublin Region Watermains Rehabilitation Project- Managing the compilation of the Customer Communication Strategy for the project, liaising with stakeholders, and the production of informational materials for customers and the project website. Also created an on-line internal management system for the logging of all communications to customers throughout the project, which enables live data to be read and logged by the project team.Race Against Waste- Integral member of the Race Against Waste project team, the national communication strategy aimed at increasing environmental awareness of waste issues and turning that awareness into action.

Project Co-Ordinator for the Local Environmental Action Plan (LEAP). This was a project run in conjunction with various County Council’s and involved bringing environmental information, advice and activities to different communities and schools within the County. Much of the work involved working with County Council's as part of their Waste Management and Litter strategies to promote environmental awareness and improve partnerships between communities and theCounty Council. It also built links with other organisations, such as Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) and An Taisce’s Green Schools Programme, as many of the workshops carried out under the programme also prmosted energy awareness and provided information on the Green Schools Programme for children to bring back to their teachers. Whilst working as project co-ordinator gained experience in the research preparation of environmental education tools and projects, as well as compiling a Development Education project for the Department of Foreign Affairs to be used in schools at secondary level.

Msc, Masters In Sustainable Development

Bsc Natural Sciences

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Natural Sciences, Geography/Sociology