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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

- Communications lead for both internal and external strategic projects, including communications planning and strategy, writing and editing of collateral, and risk analysis.- Creation and implementation of Communications Strategy for our people-led networks, as part of our Diversity and Inclusion portfolio, aimed at enhancing their profile and visibility within the organisation through impactful storytelling.- Developed a comprehensive internal communications reporting dashboards, including data analysis, for Senior Leadership, showcasing the work and success of internal communications throughout the Ministry.- Ministry communications lead for inter-agency Family Violence and Sexual Violence communications working group for four years.- Extensive mentorship with junior colleagues on various aspects of communication practices. - Thought leadership, advice and analytical reporting of social media content for Ministry channels and engagement projects.- Skilled in building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, ensuring successful collaboration.

Wellington, New Zealand

- Experience creating strategic communications for a number of different channels, including speech writing, media releases, SLT memos, factsheets, social media, blogs and internal communications.- Experience in writing detailed tactical communication plans and schedules for a number of projects, for both internal and external stakeholder engagement.- Communications lead for several internal long-term strategic projects.- Technical proficiency with content management systems including SilverStripe and SharePoint, and the Microsoft suite.- Experience in crisis communications for the duration of the COVID-19 response at a Ministry level.

Auckland, New Zealand

- Experience creating engaging and creative social media content for a variety of channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.- Management of content planning and scheduling, along with involvement in strategy development and social activations for all organisation social media channels. - Experience directing and producing video content for social media - including pitching video content, storyboards, interviewing participants, directing video shoots and providing advice on editing to create cohesive narrative-driven video content.- Responsibility for social media analytic reports, across all organisation social media channels, with experience using data analytic software such as Hootsuite, Facebook for Business, Iconosquare and Microsoft Dynamics to track and deliver reports.- Responsible for advising internal stakeholder social media strategy, including the Recruitment, Alumni, Future Students and Sustainability Teams.- Experience in emergency communications through social media channels.

Auckland, New Zealand

- Experience writing, proofing and editing content, for internal channels, social media and corporate, both in digital and print format.- Involved in content planning and scheduling, strategy development and social activations for all organisation social media channels.- Responsible for social channel analytic reports, including using data analytic software such as Hootsuite, Facebook for Business and Iconosquare to track and deliver reports for all organisation social platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Snapchat.- Experience in content management systems for internal staff intranet and external organisation website.- Experience in podcast development and recording.

Auckland, New Zealand

- Experience writing, proofing and editing web copy, press releases, and internal content.- Learning and experience with Wordpress Development.Riot Riot is a full-service, creative and communications agency with a simple idea: that strategically-led creative delivers effective business solutions. Riot Riot's aim is to provide clients with a complete, full-service strategic offering that can benefit all parts of their business, from marketing, advertising, branding, corporate and internal communications, events, digital, social and more.

Pgdipcs, Communication And Media Studies

Activities and Societies: UN Youth New Zealand, Out@AUT Student Executive Board, Out@AUT, AUT Pride Organisation Committee 2015, AUT Pink.

Bachelor'S Degree, History And English Literature

Activities and Societies: UN Youth New Zealand

High School

Activities and Societies: English Scholarship, Peer Support Leader, Peer Mentor, School Musical, Orchestra, Choir

High School

Activities and Societies: Choir, Orchestra, Volunteer Work, Trampolining, Tennis, Swimming