Permanent part-time role performing media and communications duties for the City of Kwinana.Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Champion.Disability Access and Inclusion Program (DAIP) Champion.Prepare communications strategies for the Diversity portfolio.Prepare internal communications, and provide speech writing, media liaison, photography, copy writing and editing services, along with content production.

Casual part-time contract extended until August 31.Provide media liaison writing media releases and post them to the website and monitor their impact.Prepare speeches and provide internal communications support.Enewsletter preparation until June 4.Manage the Spirit hard copy newsletter.

Part-time contract for six months, initially within the Marketing and Communications Team then the Corporate Communications team.Prepared content for social media, the website and e-newsletters.Created positive reputation-building content for the City of Perth’s corporation communications channels.Worked with the in-house videographer to put together videos for social media and e-newsletters.Collated e-newsletters via MailChimp, including special editions of the business e-news and ratepayer e-news after the Local Government Election which enjoyed an increase in engagement.Prepared corporate communications support as required including speeches, speech notes, and web content as required.

Casual contract with the City of Cockburn.Reported to the Manager of Corporate Communications, participated in a dynamic team of about nine performing internal and external communications functions, and directly working as part of a small media team within corporate communications.Prepared media releases for distribution on the City's website and to local media.Responded to media requests from local media outlets.Media monitoring, and collating daily and weekly news summaries with news affecting Cockburn for distribution to elected members and staff.Prepared articles as required for the printed Cockburn Soundings newsletter which is sent to about 45,000 households every two months and is made available to read on the City's website.Prepared small articles as required for emailed eNewsletters and Local Government publications.Proof-read the City's annual report.

Reported for several mastheads, including stints on the Canning Times, Comment News, Melville Times, Weekend/Kwinana Courier, and Southern Gazette.Contributed metro-wide health stories for the website and social media.Generated online and print news, uploaded online stories using WordPress, and took photos.Posted to Twitter and Facebook pages including the Weekend Courier’s (which had more than 10,000 followers). Appointed the health reporter for the southern suburbs from November 2017 to June 2018.

Covered health, local government, and education for the South Western Times and the Bunbury Herald.Took photos and processed them using Photoshop.Completed two short stints on the Manjimup-Bridgetown Times and took social photos for the South Western Times.

I undertook work experience at the Eastern Suburbs Reporter and Stirling Times which led to a headquarters advertising features role writing features and real estate profiles.