Hamida Parkar Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Crisis Support Expert in evidence-based Lifeline Crisis Support Framework, informed by trauma-informed care, recovery-oriented, strength-based practice, policies, approaches, tools and resources towards suicide.
• Setup and growth of Lifeline Digital Training from ground-up to train 2500+ Digital Volunteers and Digital staff across Lifeline Australia and centres to enable delivery of crisis support service
• Lead the core team that piloted Lifeline… Show more Crisis Support Expert in evidence-based Lifeline Crisis Support Framework, informed by trauma-informed care, recovery-oriented, strength-based practice, policies.
• Lead the core team that piloted Lifeline Digital Training Program funded by NSW Health, to successful and ongoing funding for Digital Crisis Support of help seekers Show less

Sydney

• InShift Supervisor (Phone & Digital) Lifeline Australia Full-Time 2020- PresentNorthern Beaches Part-Time - 2017-2020
• Supervising and coaching Crisis Supporters on calls/text chats with help seekers;
• Safety and risk assessments, Police Interventions, Reporting, Supervision, Debriefing, General Support, Administration, and Call Coaching for Suicide, Child Protection, Domestic ViolenceCrisis Supporter (Phone &.
• Safety and risk assessments, Police Interventions, Reporting, Supervision, Debriefing, General Support, Administration, and Call Coaching for Suicide, Child Protection, Domestic ViolenceCrisis Supporter (Phone &.
• Provide short-term support to people in crisis when they call or text with suicide/ suicidal behaviours, relationship issues, addiction, social and mental health problems, domestic and family violence, loss and grief.
• Increase their safety when thoughts of suicide are present

NSW

Sydney, Australia

• Administration, crisis support, counselling and intervention using collaborative feminist, strengths-based, solution-focused, narrative, ecological/ systems, anti-oppressive, and holistic approaches to support.
• Client intake and initial assessment for women presenting with trauma and various complex issues: relationship, social and mental health problems, domestic and family violence, sexual assault, loss and grief, health.
• Psychosocial analysis… Show more
• Psychosocial analysis, DFV safety assessment tools, crisis and suicide intervention models, trauma-informed care along with culturally competent, collaborative approaches to lead clients to appropriate supports Show less

Sydney, Australia

• Direct delivery of sprint backlog, internal releases and client projects
• Client budgets, team & sprint reporting
• Direct effective prioritising, grooming, backlog management and continuous release planning

Sydney, Australia

• Managed timely delivery of sprint/product backlog, internal releases and client projects
• Projects launched included system updates, product and content migrations
• Implemented Scrum and facilitated Scrum events for effective product backlog management and team delivery including story grooming, sprint planning and estimations, daily standups, sprint review and retrospectives
• Introduced collaborative online tools to share knowledge and improve visibility
• Facilitated… Show more
• Facilitated communication and tools: Slack, Confluence, JIRA and Pivotal Tracker Show less

Sydney, Australia

• Solutions/ production interface for sales team, internal and client projects
• Ensured close collaboration between cross-functional teams – tech, design, sales, client services and content production - to enable maximum productivity
• Implemented Scrum within the development team and organisation
• Set up Agile Project Management practices for internal/ external projects
• Directed timely delivery of sprint backlog, internal releases and client projects

Sydney, Australia

Lifestyle, Movies, People, Celebrity & Real-Life Content I Website

Sydney, Australia

• Career Product I Website
• Writing and editing sponsored plus health and career content for CareerOne.com.au

Sydney, Australia

• zf web I Agency I SME Projects I Web
• Operations and account management
• Project management and deliveryframauro digital I Digital Agency I SME Projects I WebOnline production managementProject and account management

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

• Managed web production across business areas—product, editorial, marketing, sales and business development
• Headed a team of designer and producer to drive projects activities and support, maintenance and delivery of website content, promotional and advertising campaigns

Mumbai Area, India

Mumbai Area, India

• Edited and produced pages for the magazine
• Interviewed movie stars and wrote feature stories
• Copy-edited features and supervised design and page layouts
• Signed off final pages before they were sent for printing
• Helped produce special Filmfare travel and food editions
• Assisted and covered the Filmfare Awards event (2002, 2003, 2004) - a critically respected brand since 1952 - the awards recognise best performances and creations of the past year

Bengaluru Area, India

• Wrote, edited and produced regular, featured and sponsored content
• Ideated promotions and new sections for the Movies website
• Created movie micro sites, games and quizzes for loyal users
• Thought of innovative ideas like stars story in photos and live movie reviews which were not seen at the time (in 2001)
• Was awarded ‘Indyan Flame Thrower’ for driving successful promotions

Mumbai Area, India

• Initial conceptualisation, editing and production for the launch of movies channel
• Headed a team of 12, including writers, designers and developers

Mumbai Area, India

• Lifestyle & Entertainment Features I Magazine I Print
• Wrote and edited feature articles, supervised design and page layouts
• Coordinated lifestyle, travel and fashion photo features

Mumbai Area, India

• Wrote a variety of content for the features section of The Asian Age
• Supervised layouts and produced pages on QUARK Express
• Edited Health, Movies, Education, YOU, Values and Sunday Edition pages
• Reported news, covered parties, events and interviewed Bollywood stars for Ek Se Badkar Ek on Doordarshan, a television countdown show produced by The Asian Age
• Headed Bliss, magazine for the weekly publication, Blitz

Masters, Social Work

Post Graduate Certificate, Script-Writing & Producing

Post Graduate Certificate, Journalism

Bachelors, Sociology