Francesca Matera Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Switzerland

• Act as secretary to governance committees and expert groups • Plan and coordinate annual conferences, quarterly meetings, and ad-hoc events, managing invitations to high-level guests and speakers • Prepare agendas, keynotes, provide timely follow-up to actions points and meetings debriefs • Assist in the recruitment of committees and subcommittees members through formal elections and informal appointments following strict diversity, equity and inclusion criteria • Produce… Show more • Act as secretary to governance committees and expert groups • Plan and coordinate annual conferences, quarterly meetings, and ad-hoc events, managing invitations to high-level guests and speakers • Prepare agendas, keynotes, provide timely follow-up to actions points and meetings debriefs • Assist in the recruitment of committees and subcommittees members through formal elections and informal appointments following strict diversity, equity and inclusion criteria • Produce yearly activity reports, quarterly newsletters, and other relevant communication • KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Satisfied highly demanding requirements of members and sponsors by anticipating their needs, as demonstrated in the positive results of the latest members’ satisfaction survey • Met highly critical number of attendees for the largest yearly conferences by ensuring the most relevant content and the highest level speakers, but also providing ample opportunity for network and exchange of best practices. • Complied with budgetary constraints by meticulous planning and cautious allocation of resources Achieved excellent post-covid turnout, both in terms of speakers and attendees, thanks to my thorough knowledge of TV production and hybrid tools. Show less

Geneva

Oversee live events and content for Eurovision radio news services while managing press facilities within international media centres, coordinating shipping and port-handing of equipment, and negotiating contracts with external suppliers. Establish and leverage awareness and communications plans across Europe, North America and Mediterranean countries to promote cross-communication and service requests between public service media outlets.Manage and host networking/PR events overseeing… Show more Oversee live events and content for Eurovision radio news services while managing press facilities within international media centres, coordinating shipping and port-handing of equipment, and negotiating contracts with external suppliers. Establish and leverage awareness and communications plans across Europe, North America and Mediterranean countries to promote cross-communication and service requests between public service media outlets.Manage and host networking/PR events overseeing contract negotiations, venue and vendor selection, production of event materials and communication to all involved departments. Manage news and feature content to coordinate compelling co-productions and collaborative projects amongst member broadcasters while also promoting cooperation in content production & distributing content on online portals (B2B).Supervise cross-functional event strategy, experts meetings, publications, and workshops with full accountability for promoting the Public Service Media brand while also helping clients define a strategy for mobile content distribution and social media on new media platforms.Projects I worked on in 2018:- Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle - G7 Summit, Quebec- Pope visit to Geneva/WCC Show less

Collected, researched, analysed and published newsworthy content and innovative story ideas in text, video and audio formats on http://info.rsi.ch while monitoring local, domestic, international and business news.Wrote social media content to increase followers and web traffic, implemented social media strategy as part of SRG social media expert group, & provided technical moderation for social media platforms.Supervised a team of multimedia newsroom assistants, promoting… Show more Collected, researched, analysed and published newsworthy content and innovative story ideas in text, video and audio formats on http://info.rsi.ch while monitoring local, domestic, international and business news.Wrote social media content to increase followers and web traffic, implemented social media strategy as part of SRG social media expert group, & provided technical moderation for social media platforms.Supervised a team of multimedia newsroom assistants, promoting innovation across teams & products, & leading the development of online interactive tools. Managed list of editorial contacts; political figures, experts and collaborators. Show less

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Spearheaded overall brand strategy and positioning to raise awareness of Caritas Internationalis’ work and communicated strategy on prevention and cure of AIDS. Created and executed traditional and new-media publicity and advertising for newsworthy stories amongst the work and people deployed in the field internationally.Developed digital publication strategy that extended the reach of the agency’s work through social media while also writing copy for online and print outlets, and… Show more Spearheaded overall brand strategy and positioning to raise awareness of Caritas Internationalis’ work and communicated strategy on prevention and cure of AIDS. Created and executed traditional and new-media publicity and advertising for newsworthy stories amongst the work and people deployed in the field internationally.Developed digital publication strategy that extended the reach of the agency’s work through social media while also writing copy for online and print outlets, and editing and proofreading materials written by third parties.Produced audio-visual content such as slideshows, audio interviews, video clips and photo galleries for online and social media to create high-impact, integrated campaigns. Show less

Wrote, sourced, created and published content in text, video and audio formats on http://news.bbc.co.uk and monitored domestic, international and business news across agencies and a variety of other sources.Oversaw the development of interactive tools through user-test processes while identifying news stories.

London, United Kingdom

Marketing Staretegy In The Digital Age

Pgc, Journalism

Msc, Multimedia

Masters in Digital Media. .

Ba (Hons), Communication

combined Honours with German