Kathleen Gotts Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Supported fundraising for child healthcare and research as a development writer with the Brand, Content & Communications team (associate writer from April 2017; senior specialist from April 2021).Developed marketing briefs, cases for support, proposals, impact reports, and other donor-centred communications in collaboration with fundraisers, clinicians, and scientists. Assignments included writing support for donor prospecting and reporting on the impact of funding from monthly giving to multi-year multi-million-dollar donations. Translated complex medical content into accessible narratives and storytelling as lead development writer on the SickKids Research Institute, Precision Child Health, genomics, rare diseases, and other topics.Managed multi-stakeholder assignments (case-for-support development, proposals, and impact reports) from concept to conclusion as the lead writer for inter-provincial, national, and international Precision Child Health partnerships.Provided subject matter expertise and writing support to marketing and communications colleagues for brand campaigns, media outreach/events, speaking notes, and web/social media content.Participated in organization-wide process improvement projects on cross-functional working groups with stewardship, granting, finance, project management, and IT colleagues.

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided communications and business development support to a social enterprise start-up in the health technology field. Core responsibilities included grants management for CAD$1.5M portfolio, proposal development, and relationship management with donors and large foundations. Nia's first venture, 3D PrintAbility, is a 3D scanning, modelling, and printing innovation designed to equip orthopaedic clinicians in low-resource countries with new tools to produce high-quality mobility devices more quickly than conventional manual methods allow. 3D PrintAbility is being evaluated with clinical partners in Cambodia, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Toronto, Canada Area

Writer/editor of funding proposals for health promotion projects, reports and literature reviews, patient resources, and web content. Clients included the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the Canadian Lymphedema Framework, and Haley Rehab Physiotherapy (a clinic that specializes in cancer rehabilitation).

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Senior Manager (Jun 2013-Apr 2014)Manager (Sep 2010-Jun 2013)Content lead for two Ontario-wide, multi-year health promotion campaigns, national website (Be Breast Healthy and About Breast Cancer sections), and health resources. Contributed to funding proposal development to bilateral and corporate funders, tracked evaluation metrics, and coordinated reporting to senior management and funders in liaison with Finance Department. Managed relations and contracts/budgets with key vendors. Developed and delivered evidence-based health information in collaboration with internal staff, external subject matter experts, and community partners. Content development tasks included concept development, research, communications planning, creative brief development, focus testing, and writing/editing. Expanded inventory of health resources and significantly increased the reach of messaging to health professionals, women with breast cancer, and the public.Public-facing resources developed: print brochures (in 14 languages), issue backgrounders, fact sheets, web and social media content, videos (English and French), digital quizzes, and e-newsletters.

Toronto, Canada Area

Managed the development and launch of a new, cost-effective website in collaboration with advisory committee; coordinated RFP to recruit web designer; wrote and edited web content and selected images; and liaised with web designer to beta-test and prepare site for launch in time for annual conference. Received LAO volunteer recognition award.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Coordinated 24-member team to successfully deliver a health promotion project that raised awareness about secondary lymphedema for women with breast cancer. Core responsibilities: program development (goal-setting, time-planning, financial tracking, participatory evaluation); project management (to implement and evaluate activities); health promotion resource development and writing (website and print resources); funder relations and ensuring donor compliance with periodic reporting to funder.Activities reached 550+ breast cancer survivors, health professionals, and fitness instructors in the Ottawa area; established links with 130+ lymphedema organizations and breast cancer support groups across Ontario; and disseminated project findings and recommendations via bilingual educational resources and a web site, four conference presentations, and a journal article published in Canadian Family Physician (Dec 2010).

Ottawa, Canada Area

Coordinated activities to research and develop health information about flu pandemic preparedness in a toolkit for the general public and an online continuing education course for health professionals. Supported programming by conducting research, analyzing information, and writing reports and status updates for senior management, cross-sectoral working groups, and funder (Public Health Agency of Canada). Reports included backgrounders, briefing notes, environmental scans, and reports to funder.- Research and content lead for the development and production of a bilingual plain language toolkit and website; helped to create a national communications plan to disseminate the toolkit.- Supported consultants and partners to implement needs assessment for national online course and develop preliminary communications plan.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Communication

Publishing Program, The Chang School Of Continuing Education

Program completed in May 2016. Courses completed include the following: education publishing overview; practical grammar and punctuation.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A. Honours), History And Social Anthropology