Heloise Nicholl Email & Phone Number

Victoria, Bc, Ca

Victoria Bc

As a board member, I contribute communications skills to the Foundation's web presence, graphic design, video creation and written content.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Website and graphic designer for settlement agency that supports newcomers in Victoria. I facilitate teams of experts who improve access to healthcare, housing, employment and equity for newcomers.• WordPress web design and content creation, HTML, CSS• Adobe Pro: InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver• Experienced with Meta for Business, Sharepoint, EventBrite, Constant Contact, Canva• Coordinator for healthcare, employment and equity tables with Victoria-based experts in each field• Event planner for healthcare conferences– creating agenda, guidebooks, flyers, booking spaces, coordinating contracts etc.

Created graphics layouts, social media posts and written articles for Pearson College's digital communications. Contributed to event planning and outreach for One World 2020.

Victoria, British Columbia

As a FAM Host for Victoria's tourism board, I hosted travel trade and media professionals throughout the region's sights and amenities. I introduced our tourism professionals to Victoria's accommodations, transportation, restaurants and sights and provided them with sources of media coverage and content.

Victoria, British Columbia

Assisted in the launch of Capital City ComiCon 2019, Victoria's premiere comic convention. I executed print and signage contracts, coordinated tasks for logistics, equipment and swag and liaised with the Victoria Conference Centre and the Empress Hotel.

Victoria, British Columbia

As the quality improvement strategic consultant for the Residential Care Initiative, I worked with 37 facilities throughout Victoria and the South Island to improve the quality of healthcare and operations for physicians and residents in long term care.

Victoria Bc, Tamale Ghana

Led the communications strategy for a maternal and child health project in Northern Ghana. I worked with our partners Savana Signatures, Salasan Consulting and Mustimuhw Solutions, to implement the T4MCH project in 33 health facilities throughout Northern Ghana. I incorporated Communications for Development (C4D) methods, Gender and Development methods and the use of ICTs to share public health information with mothers and families.

Courtenay, Port Alberni Bc

• Coordinated NIC’s Open Houses and fundraisers in 2014, 2015 and 2016• Developed marketing materials for farm-to-table events and Open Houses including press releases, brochures, online copy and signage; created clear information about all events • Networked food producers, restaurants and vineyards with customers and College stakeholders, strengthened partnerships in Comox Valley’s local food and hospitality industries• Coordinated 60+ faculty, staff and volunteers across two campuses and seven program areas • Delivered campus-wide engagement activities for 1000+ incoming students

Victoria, Canada

Analyzed telecommunications programs and policies for rural-remote and First Nations communities in B.C. Responded to broadband connectivity inquiries, analyzed federal and CRTC telecommunications policies, worked with federal, provincial, municipal and First Nations counterparts, managed and analyzed database reporting, worked with Internet Service Providers, wrote ministerial correspondence for the public.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Coordinated the Telecentre Leader’s Forum at the GK3 Conference, assisted in design of panels, coordinate participant travel and accommodation, planned exhibition spaces and conference events. Coordinated the making of a short documentary with Young Asia Television about Telecentre.org

Coordinated B-Span video web-casting service to broadcast live events at World Bank HQ, liaised with video production crews, wrote presentation summaries of events, maintained website, produced bi-monthly podcasts, conducted sound editing and engineering.

Ottawa, Canada Area, Uganda

Conducted qualitative field research on rural women's use of ICTs in Northern Uganda, facilitated participatory video workshop with Uganda partner NGO, produced short documentary

Taught undergraduate courses on gender studies, food security and introductory social sciences. Lead tutorials, wrote lesson plans, marked papers, invigilated exams.

Production assistant, sound recordist, post-production sound editor and designer. Worked on various independent film productions in Victoria, Vancouver, San Francisco and London UK.

This position had two different roles. In Cameroon, I acted as researcher, writer, production assistant and interviewer for a video documentary. In Zimbabwe I acted as a producer's assistant to a series of five films called 'Mama Africa' being shot in five different African countries (Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa). I also assisted on-set for the Zimbabwean film and distributed titles from Zimmedia's catalogue.

Master'S Of Arts, Communications And Culture

Activities and Societies: First Year Representative to TMU's Graduate Student's Association TMU Alumni AssociationThesis on women's access.

International Studies, Music Performance, General

Music performance, theory and composition. Co-op term at sound engineering studio.

Bachelor'S Of Arts, Communications And Film Production

Activities and Societies: SFU Alumni Association

International Exchange Program, Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities

Field school on the history, art, architecture and language of the Czech Republic.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Environmental Youth Alliance, photography club, Commonwealth Society, dance program, theatre program, George.