Kirby Taylor Email & Phone Number

Canberra, Act, Au

Canberra

Jakarta, Indonesia

Canberra

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Employed in the Disability Strategy Branch where my role focused on the implementation of the Recommendations from the 2020 Review of the Disability Standards for Education 2005. This involved extensive consultation with states and territory jurisdictions, the non-government school sector and national peak bodies and advocacy groups. My role included consultation design, engagement with internal and external stakeholders, secretariat management including drafting agenda papers and talking points for executive staff, analysis of consultation findings and writing of briefs for departmental senior executive staff and the Ministers Office. This extensive process informed impactful policy creation and contributed to wider departmental objectives of ensuring quality and accessible education.

Canberra, Australia

Pastoral and academic support of female and male students from Years 7 - 12 outside of school hours including weekends. - Day to day duties include supervision of meals and study hours as well as transportation of students to extracurricular commitments. - Additional duties include liaising with parents and coordinating weekend activities that support the boarding community.

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

- Provided support to students, parents and visitors to the school. - Handled phone and email enquiries including operating the switchboard. - Supported staff with internal events, excursions, camps and other activities.

Canberra

Regular casual assistance in the College of Asia and the Pacific - Student Mobility and Support Services across 22 months inclusive of a four month, full time contract in 2018/19. My duties included: - Program and budget management for overseas study tours and process improvement for administrative procedures. - Liaison with ANU's academic staff for program creation as well as partner institutions and partner organisations located outside of Australia for the successful running of overseas programs.- Assistance with student consultation and administration support for those undertaking exchange semesters, study abroad opportunities and the College's flagship Year in Asia program. - Scholarship management and administration for university and government funding including OS-HELP loans, New Colombo Plan Mobility Grants and Scholarships. - Media and promotion of overseas study programs throughout Asia and the Pacific.- Coordination of pre-departure briefings with a strong focus on risk management.

Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia

I participated in the Australian Embassy in Jakarta's postgraduate eight-week internship program in July and August 2019. As part of this program I worked in the Media and Public Diplomacy team. My duties included event planning, media management and high-level research and written tasks. The projects that I was involved in, during this program, focused on linking the Australian and Indonesian arts and culture sector including those from the dance, music, film and literature communities. I provided support for NAIDOC Week events, workshops and performances by the West Australian Ballet and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Elizabeth O’Neill Journalism Award ceremony, the ASEAN Emerging Leaders program and the Australia Council Arts Leaders program. I was also tasked with preparation for larger projects including; an upcoming Indonesia-wide public diplomacy campaign as well as the commemoration of 70 years of formal diplomatic relations between Australia and Indonesia.

Canberra

- Liased with and supported staff, students, parents and visitors to the school. - Managed a high volume of phone and email enquiries including operating the switchboard. - Prepared materials for school events and created the weekly calendar for the school community.

Hawthorn

- Case management of international students by providing confidential welfare support and personal assistance as well as critical incident management. - Cohort and scholarship management in my role as Student Contact Officer for Australia Awards scholarship students from the Asia-Pacific and Africa regions. This legislated role included program and budget management for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.- Provision of operational and strategic support to the Associate Director. - Project and Event management for events such as Orientation and Welcome sessions, Australia Awards Introductory Academic Program, on and off campus events, student workshops and seminars targeted to the engagement and welfare of international students.Achievements: - Nominated as a Swinburne Aspiring Leader in 2017. - Staff cross-unit collaboration presentation about the importance of whole institution compliance with the Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) Legislative Framework.

Melbourne

- Built and maintained professional relations with media contacts and organisations;- Performed a wide range of administrative functions, including managing the general email account, assisting with preparing pre- and post- delegation material including applications and surveys; assisted in recruitment of delegates. - Prepared and distributed newsletters to both alumni and general subscribers;- Published and distributed press releases on the activity of delegates through appropriate media channels;- Monitored media activity and liaised with delegates to guide them in gaining relevant media exposure;- Maintained and grew social media presences, including on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn;- Edited and formatted research papers developed by delegations for publication;- Edited and placed opinion pieces written by delegates in domestic and international media; and- Assisted and lead event management, including pre-departure briefings in Canberra, overseas delegations and domestic events

Melbourne

Volunteered as the Media Relations Project Officer for the HEELs Conference which was aimed at empowering young female leaders.

Melbourne

Volunteered as a vital host team member to successfully organise the Harvard World Model United Nations Conference (world's largest student conference) which was held in Melbourne from 18-22 March 2013. My role was to organise and oversee the organisation of the nightly social events. I was also involved in successfully preparing the bid to host the conference prior to being awarded the incredible opportunity. http://bit.ly/1BKWBXS

Jakarta

- General media and communications tasks- Daily office tasks such as responding to public inquiries via phone and email, internal communications in the Indonesian network of UN agencies - Monitoring of local media and corresponding with media- Assiting in the preparation of UN events and campaigns - In particular preparing for the October UN4U campaign through numerous tasks - Creating the August and October editions of the UN in Indonesia newsletter. - Created and edited various English communications. For example; media advisories, press releases, speeches and news articles. - Social media posts for Facebook and Twitter, which were mainly in Bahasa Indonesia

Master Of Diplomacy

Activities and Societies: - Elected student representative for the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy in my first semester, Semester 1.

Bachelor'S Degree, International Studies

Distinction average

Flexible Language Immersion Program

This study was undertaken in Yogyakarta, Indonesia as a recipient of the Victorian Government DSDBI Hamer Scholarship.

Chinese Language And Culture

- As part of the University Mobility in the Asia-Pacific Program. - Made possible by the Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award.

Indonesian Language Studies

Education record

2010 - George Hunter Memorial Scholarship, awarded to one successful student who completed VCE in 2009 and is now undertaking university.