Holly O'Connell Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Heading up the Partnerships Department at RISING; overseeing government, public, philanthropic, cultural and strategic partnerships.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Southbank

Leading accounts across Volvo, Formula 1, TAC’s Vanessa Program and new business.

Melbourne, Australia

Managing partnerships across the AAMI sponsorship portfolio including AAMI Derby Day at Melbourne Cup Carnival, AAMI Park and AAMI A Day on the Green.

Cremorne

Management of boutique and large-scale experiential, sponsorship and event campaigns, from start to finish. This includes creative development, pitching and scoping through to execution, on-the-ground management and reporting. Working across Disney, Medibank, AAMI, Tourism NT and TelstraResponsibilities span managing budgets, sponsorship strategy, client and supplier relations, and ensuring a high quality of creative production.

Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Oikocredit is an NGO working globally to support microfinance institutions and cooperatives in developing countries. Responsible for ensuring that satellite offices across Europe, North America and Japan had the marketing tools to attract and retain investors within the national target audiences. Duties spanned development of key messages and targeted marketing collateral, both digital and print.

Melbourne, Australia

Leader Community Newspapers is a branch of News Limited, with 33 community newspapers covering Melbourne. After completing the exclusive News Limited Reporter Cadetship program, I advanced to a reporter role. My responsibilities included developing and researching content for both print and online, which relied heavily on my networking and relationship building abilities in order to find stories.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Communication

Completed a Masters of Science thesis on communicaton strategy for Fair Trade products, using data collection and analysis with statistics.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Journalism

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