James Cabangon Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

With Protaea, I focus on helping clients achieve strategic wins through targeted government relations and advocacy efforts. My role involves crafting tailored lobbying strategies by researching policy issues, understanding legislative developments, and building relationships with key government stakeholders. I work closely with clients to ensure their objectives align with current political landscapes, facilitating meaningful engagements with government officials and advocacy groups. My expertise in navigating political institutions and legislative processes helps clients secure the necessary support to achieve their strategic policy goals.

At TransLink, I lead the design and implementation of communication strategies for key transit infrastructure projects. Working closely with planning and engineering teams, I ensure effective public messaging on initiatives that enhance transit services. I also manage communications for government partnership projects, collaborating with provincial and municipal stakeholders to align project objectives and maintain strong working relationships. My role supports the successful delivery of critical infrastructure improvements while ensuring clear and consistent communication with all stakeholders.

In my role as the EA to the Premier, I played a critical role in managing the Premier’s daily operations, acting as a key point of coordination between the Premier’s Office and government staff and ministries. I handled complex scheduling, ensuring the Premier’s time was optimized, and managed high-level correspondence, ensuring communication with stakeholders, government officials, and ministries was clear and efficient. My role involved working closely with the RCMP to coordinate travel logistics and security for the Premier, and I was responsible for ensuring that priorities across multiple ministries were communicated. I effectively supported the Premier’s strategic goals by managing the flow of information, ensuring that every detail was in place to support the smooth operation of government business.

Vancouver-Point Grey, British Columbia, Canada

As a Constituency Assistant for my MLA's office, I provided exceptional support in serving the constituents of Vancouver-Point Grey. In this role, I acted as a liaison between the MLA, constituents, and community groups, responding to inquiries and concerns through various modes of communication. I conducted research, analyzed information related to constituency matters, and prepared reports and briefing notes for the MLA. Additionally, I coordinated meetings, events, and public appearances for the MLA in the constituency while managing his schedule and working on correspondence. I collaborated with other members of the MLA's office and legislative staff on relevant issues, maintained accurate records and databases, and represented the MLA with professionalism and integrity. Through this experience, I gained a deep understanding of the legislative process and the importance of providing exceptional service to constituents.

As a member of the Public Engagement team within the Community Development and Engagement unit, I worked on innovative communication and public engagement projects. Our team facilitated open conversations with the public, university stakeholders, and Musqueam on planning and development initiatives on campus, and collaborated with them on community programs and services.As part of my role, I managed planning.ubc.ca and @campusUBC social media channels, ensuring that our communications were informative, engaging, and aligned with our strategic goals. I leveraged these channels to connect with our audiences and share information on our initiatives, events, and services.Through my work, I gained valuable experience in public engagement, stakeholder management, and community development. My ability to collaborate effectively with diverse groups and manage social media channels contributed to the success of our team's projects and initiatives.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Community Connectors program aims to increase student, staff, faculty, and resident involvement with the ongoing Campus Vision 2050

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

As the Associate Vice-President of External Affairs at western Canada's largest student union, I collaborated with partners, stakeholders, and government officials to oversee our government affairs strategy. Through formal lobbying, political research, and contributing to various committees, I ensured that our student union's interests were represented at all levels of government.Some key highlights of my role include:Successfully lobbying provincial and federal government officials on issues related to student affordability, and advocating for policies that would benefit students.Collaborating with the Vice President, External Affairs to create a comprehensive government relations strategy for the AMS of UBC.Commissioning research to support the creation of policy papers and budget submissions that were data-driven and aligned with our advocacy goals.Managing a team of direct reports to ensure that deadlines were met and efficiency was maintained.Maintaining an expert understanding of issues related to affordability, housing, and transit solutions, and advocating for the best interests of students on these issues.Designing and implementing data-driven subsidies for transit solutions to ensure that students had access to cost-reduced and subsidized transit.Lobbying the Mayor's Council to provide the student perspective on the implementation of a Skytrain-to-UBC, advocating for improved transit options for students.Through my work as the Associate Vice-President of External Affairs, I developed a deep understanding of government affairs and advocacy strategies. My ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders and government officials, commission research, manage teams, and design data-driven policies, contributed to the success of our student union's government affairs strategy.

The role of the UCRU Governance Committee was to suggest annual goals for itself to the Board, implement and execute directional plans of the organization as approved by the board, overseeing the creation of operational policies, and the updating of the organization’s bylaws and strategic plans as established by the Executive and the board. Other duties such as assisting Secretary-Treasurer with the annual auditing process were also assigned to members of the committee.

• Create advocacy briefs and materials for the organization ahead of advocacy meetings and lobby weeks. • Write letters to relevant government ministers and press releases as needed. Responsible for the authorship of at least one (1) UCRU policy paper per year. • Responsible for the execution of UCRU consultation and research. • Have such other duties as assigned by the board.

• Managing the bulk of administrative duties around the office to ensure that legal staff and others werewell supported and had ease of access to case details.• Managed firm's corporate client and real estate practice documents, including Wills, Estates, andCorporate transactions.• Obtained experience working with powers of attorney, trusts, probate & estate administration, realestate law, and corporate governance transactions.• Managed the annual reports of the firm's existing corporate clients as well as aided in the creation ofannual reporting files for new clients.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States (Hq)

Managed the official social media accounts of the organization and its subsidiary groups internationally to help boost engagement of the international communication efforts. Areas of focus included creating marketing calendars, creating and facilitating social media campaigns, as well as facilitating an official philanthropic partnership between the organization and Movember.