Marketing, Branding and Communications for arts organisation catering for Pacific talent and practitioners in contemporary and heritage dance, film, movement and the like. Three major events are produced annually: Pacific Dance Festival, Artist in Residence, Choreographic Lab. Throughout the year community and school holiday programmes are run in various locations around Auckland. Role has a strong focus on building awareness for the events, driving and commercialising audience participation and engagement and giving our artists and producers further opportunities to build their own brands and audiences and launch their creative works.

CocoNew – The Agency is a bespoke business that is based in the Kingdom of Tonga. We are passionate about the Kingdom of Tonga and the Pacific and we work primarily with Tongan brands and SMEs to take them to the global market with marketing strategy and communications utilising a blend of traditional and digital media. We are flexible with the services that we provide - and also offer boutique management consultancy to SMEs and international projects looking for a reputable agency and company to partner with for local projects. Did you know that we are Storytellers too? We are not only focused on Tonga - we service clients right across the Pacific from NZ to PNG.

Marketing, Brand, Communications and Social Media Specialist

Specialising in the South Pacific providing advice on value-chain development, strategic marketing and communications, product and brand development. Included in this is co-ordinating regional and national collaboration with government, producers and stakeholders, workshop facilitation, strategy writing and grant proposals.

Pre-Opening General Manager

General Manager for 2 Flagship restaurants in Auckland ; Botswana Butchery & Harbourside Ocean Bar Grill situated in the landmark Ferry Building on Quay Street in Auckland City

Key Responsibilities:Managing operations and revenue planning for: Business Solutions, Postpaid, Mobile Advertising, Retail, the Call Centre, Marketing, Mobile Financial Services, Pay TV and the ISPDeveloping sales forecasts and budgets: analysing and challenging forecast assumptions, identification and reporting of variances and preparing bridge plansDriving subscriber acquisition and subscriber base management for GSM, ISP & DigiTV.Growing revenue across business units, coordinating sales and marketing activities, producing and managing KPIs and commission payments Management of major corporate and government accounts. Growing the base by identifying leads, preparing and presenting strategic proposals to gain the businessWorking closely with the technical team to ensure that commercial opportunities and leads can be executedDriving the business and agency development for DigiTV: growing subscribers, negotiating content, overseeing day-to-day operations Reporting to the Board

• Digicel Mobile Money – Financial Services Project• Deployment of NFC – Beep & Go• Marketing and PR • Diaspora PR and Marketing• Management of DigiTV: * Digital Advertising * TV Production * Content Scheduling * Establishment of creative and editing suite for local content and programming• DigiNet/ISP Sales and Management in conjunction with ICT * Marketing & Sales Planning & Strategy * Sales Planning and Execution * Sales Team management

As a Boutique hotel and small teams to manage - I currently direct and manage the following;Food & Beverage OperationsFront Office & Reservations Revenue ManagementAll Sales & MarketingEvent &Functions planning & coordinationIt's a hands on role and you have to be an all- rounderGreat place to work!