Georgina Collymore Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

My passion is sharing stories…stories that allow the reader to easily understand and appeal to your brand, message and corporate identity. I pride myself on providing all my clients with the highest quality content and strategic communications advice, that will get them to that next level of success.As a freelance communications consultant, my specialties include:• Feature Writing (articles, newsletters, blog posts)• Press Releases & Press Kits• Financial Writing & Editing• Web Writing & Editing• Grant Writing• Corporate Communications Samples of my work can be viewed at www.ginacollymore.com

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Assist in the planning and execution of stakeholder engagement and communications during Environmental Assessments (EA).Develop and implement strategies for communicating key EA messages and other information that reflect corporate objectives and enhance the corporate brand.Work in collaboration with federal and provincial regulatory bodies, municipal councils, environmental agencies and interest groups, Business Improvement Areas, transportation authorities, and agencies at national (e.g. Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Rail, Via Rail) and regional levels to exchange information, coordinate efforts and mitigate communication risks.Work with the general public, community partners, and government stakeholders to deliver communications strategies and manage issues.Ensure projects comply with relevant legislation, business unit goals, and strategic plans, and align with government legislation pertaining to reporting requirements.

Toronto, On

Develop highly detailed communications plans to effectively convey ongoing infrastructure projects and their impacts to various divisions across the organization. Actively identifying and documenting construction milestones for internal and external stakeholders.Proactively collaborate with the members of the Strategic Communications department to develop effective and coordinated communications; and with the Stakeholder Relations team to identify public engagement priorities, and to implement strategies that reflect Metrolinx’s community and stakeholder relations principles.Write and edit a variety of communications materials including key messages, news releases, briefing notes, presentations, community bulletins and construction notices.Provide communications services that support the project teams and reflect community relations goals when informing passengers and potentially impacted residents about infrastructure project activities at or near GO Transit facilities and stations.Develop relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including project coordinators, consultants and senior management to provide thorough communications and issues support through the duration of a project.

Lead the development and maintenance of the editorial process to ensure high editorial quality and accuracy in strategic publications, website, internal communications, annual report and multimedia products.Proactively oversee the development of an active internal communications program which includes, but is not limited to, communiqués, newsletters and assisting Human Resources with the execution of some employee communications.Research and write content for e-newsletters, brochures and promotional collateral, ensuring consistent Access Copyright messaging and brand identity. Participate in the implementation of Access Copyright’s communications plan.Write feature articles and news releases.Pitch media stories and deal with all aspects of media relations.

Implement and create all web strategies and deliver the online component of campaigns and projects, including content for web pages, emails, banners and webcasts.Act as the internal resource for all web and email writing, advising and answering questions when necessary to ensure communications are delivered to a high standard.Assist manager in maintaining a robust online media centre and assist in the development of media materials such as fact sheets, backgrounders and other online resource materials.Provide writing, editing and proofing support for communications initiatives; which include writing press releases, editing commentaries and liaising with media.Make regular updates to the national website with internally designed authoring tool. Write and edit website content, including an electronic press kit, vision and mission statements and the history of the organization

Project lead for various in house publications, i.e. Annual Report, Internal Communications brochure, Parkinsider Newsletter. Write news releases for all annual events, research grants, fundraising efforts for the national office and all its regions.Write articles for the national magazine, Parkinson Post magazine. Liaise with translators, printers and publishing house to coordinate all aspects of printing and delivery.Maintain media monitoring and have developed key relationships with media outlets for various fundraising and awareness efforts.Maintained and coordinated all website updates, French and English. Regular use of SAGE software, Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office applications.

Canadian Realtor Network

Created all the marketing and public relations materials to launch new product.Daily duties include liaising with clients to schedule training and sales sessions, troubleshooting website errors, technical assistance and domain support with clients. Organize exhibits for local and national trade shows within the real estate and mortgage industries. Optimized client sites to achieve higher search engine rankings, using html keyword guidelines, meta tags and submitting monthly to top search engines.

Mississauga, On

Research, write, shoot, edit and prepare visual content for news packages, focusing on stories from the local community, for daily news program First Local.

Bachelor Of Arts, English Literature

Diploma, Journalism