Lynette Lim Email & Phone Number

Rotterdam, Zh, Nl

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

- Led the development and implementation of the Resilient Cities Network's Communications and Knowledge Strategies. R-Cities is the world's leading urban resilience coalition of cities, made up of over 100 cities around the world, represented by Chief Resilience Officers, a position institutionalised in member city governments. We empower cities through communications, knowledge, practice and partnerships to build a safe and equitable world. - Led the team building R-Cities’ first monitoring, evaluation and learning system, including its log frame and real-time monitoring system. Led the delivery of R-Cities’ first program evaluations. - Led the team delivering R-Cities’ impact report 2022-23. - Member of the senior management team, overseeing a global organization across 4 regional offices, namely Singapore, Rotterdam, New York and Mexico City.- Managed the communications and knowledge departments and directly supervised 8 staff members.Programme Director of R-Cities’ Future Ready Cities Programme, funded by Visa, building resilience through education and pilot digital finance solutions, and the flagship Cities on the Frontline webinar series, overseeing fundraising, donor relations and grant management.- Oversight of the design and implementation of in-person and virtual events for network members, including regional convening and knowledge exchanges.- Architect and Project Director of R-Cities' first ever campaigns in 2022 and 2023, Urban Eats and Cities Solve, Cities Deliver and the Urban Exchange Podcast, a monthly podcast featuring city leaders. Urban Eats is a campaign aimed at inspiring and showcasing city best practices on circular and resilient urban food systems.- Project Director of R-Cities' engagement at major events, including UNFCCC COP, World Cities Summit, World Urban Forum and UN 2023 Water Conference.- Bid writer for communications, campaigns, knowledge and climate, health and food-related projects and programs.

Remote

- Developing Seefar's strategic communications, marketing and behaviour change programmes in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, covering thematic areas of migration, modern slavery, livelihoods, and public health. - Utilising research on knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and structural factors to develop and test solutions to various humanitarian and development challenges. - Track record of proposal development with major institutional donors, including FCDO, Norad, EU and GFFO. - Project Director for cross-country strategic communications and behaviour change programmes in Mali, Senegal, Afghanistan and Nigeria. - Project Manager of a World Bank-funded Afghanistan youth inclusion pilot, testing the efficacy of youth applying personal initiative behaviours in rural and urban areas.- Technical lead in the implementation of a campaign in India to end commercial sexual exploitation of children; and a livelihoods hub in Afghanistan for returnees from Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and Europe.- Managing a team of 5 strategic communications consultants and 2 project managers.- Trainer in strategic communications, confidence in action and adaptive counselling

Kabul, Afghanistan

- Utilising research on knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and structural factors to develop and test solutions in the fields of education, modern slavery, migration, health, social cohesion, corruption and economic inclusion. - Technical lead in the implementation of strategic communications and behaviour change campaigns in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and India. - Project Manager of a World Bank-funded Afghanistan youth pilot, testing the efficacy of personal initiative training on youth in rural and urban areas.- Managed a team of 3 strategic communications consultants- Bid writer, leading on project design and consortia building - Trainer in strategic communications and adaptive counselling.

Amman Governorate, Jordan

(Fixed-term contract)- Leading the implementation of the Syria Resilience Consortium’s (SRC) communications action plan for 2018. The SRC is the only consortium of International NGOs working to build resilience of conflict-affected individuals inside Syria. Consortium members include CARE, DRC, Humanity & inclusion, IRC, Mercy Corps and NRC.- Leading the brand refresh project for the SRC, developing new brand language and brand identity.- Leading the website development project for the SRC.- Commissioning and deploying consultants for 7 content collection trips in Syria. Managing the subsequent post-production work to tell the impact story of SRC’s programmes.- Developing and maintaining core communications tools including fact sheets, report summaries, key messages, talking points, and briefings.- Conceptualising and managing events for the SRC- Co-chairing the advocacy and communications task force.

Kigali, Rwanda

(Fixed-term contract)- Managing Girl Effect Rwanda’s core corporate communications activities, including communications with Government, donors and partner organisations. Girl Effect develops youth brands for social change in various markets, rooted in local culture, for girls, by girls. - Developing and maintaining Girl Effect Rwanda’s core communications tools, including fact sheets, key messages, talking points, and briefings. Core issues include gender empowerment, education, economic empowerment and adolescent sexual reproductive health. - Developing Girl Effect’s first partnership strategy in Rwanda. Managing partnership engagement, delivering on proposals, partnership building and government initiatives. - Conceptualising, project managing and budget oversight for events and high-level visits.- Managing smooth internal communications between Girl Effect Rwanda and Girl Effect London. - Contributing content for Girl Effect media platforms and leading media engagement.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

- Leading, creating and overseeing strategic campaigning across all issues related to the GROW campaign, including food value chains, agriculture investment, climate change and land rights.- Project managing the public campaign workstream of campaign development, managing project Gantt charts, overseeing budgets, leading on knowledge management and chairing global meetings.- Managing the audience research and content gathering components of campaign development.- Coordinating a wide range of internal stakeholders across the confederation, including both affiliates and country teams.- Building capacity of country and regional campaigners.

Kigali, Rwanda

(Fixed-term contract)- Leading the development and implementation of an ambitious social and behavioural change communications strategy for a USAID-funded education programme aimed at fostering a culture of reading at the community level in Rwanda. - Serving as coordinator for a USAID-funded stakeholder platform, Rwanda Reads, setting up communications channels for information sharing and partnerships with Government, civil society organisations and the private sector.- Project managing and overseeing budget for Rwanda Reads, as well as high-level events.- Leading on partnership concept notes, quarterly donor reports and communications work plans. - Leading the development of a country office-wide internal and external communications strategy, brand refresh, humanitarian media/communications/advocacy strategy, communications structure and capacity building plan. - Building a team of communicators for the Rwanda country programme, including recruitment, onboarding, training, mentoring and resource mobilising.

Yangon, Myanmar

- Developing and implementing advocacy, media, communications and social media strategies for Save the Children in Myanmar, with annual US$70 million portfolio.- Building a team of communicators for the Myanmar country programme, including recruitment, onboarding, training, mentoring and resource mobilising. - Conceptualising, project managing and overseeing budget in campaigns for children, including campaign strategies, brand and design, media engagement, and digital strategies. - Developing and updating a series of marketing materials such as factsheets, case studies, blogs, photographs and videos to showcase the scale and scope of Save the Children’s programmes in Myanmar for advocacy and fundraising purposes. - Working closely with programme teams on social and behavioural change communication strategies, designing radio programmes, promotional materials and other resources. - Traveling within 24 hours of an emergency/disaster in Myanmar and around Asia to support media, communications and fundraising efforts. - International spokesperson for Save the Children. - Capacity building for staff on media management, communications, information management, digital media, social media and multimedia. - Part of a global network of Save the Children colleagues working on the global brand refresh, internal digital communications, knowledge management and information management.- Completed the Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) in Oxford.(Remote working between 1st Jan to 30th April 2016)

Singapore

- Providing media and communications support to 15 offices in Asia (including China, Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Central Asia office of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan) for campaigns and emergencies. Save the Children is the world’s leading child rights organisation, with an annual income of nearly US$1.6billion.- Producing press releases, Q&As, key messages, case studies, blogs, photo stories, online stories, videos, donor briefs, etc for the Asia region in emergencies and campaigns- Coordinating key campaign moments in 2012-14 for 15 country offices in Asia, reaching more Asian media outlets than ever before in Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.- Travelling within 48 hours of an emergency/disaster in Asia to lead the country team in media and communications, resulting in media coverage across Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, Oceania and Asia.- Building up Save the Children’s media presence in Asia through the development of relations with key editors and journalists- Capacity building for country offices in Asia in media and communications, training staff on technical writing, visual communication, social media and speaking to the media- Developing media, communications and social media strategies for both campaigns and emergencies- Organising events in Singapore in order to raise brand awareness

Singapore

-Producing and writing news segments for Asia's leading news channel, viewed in 24 territories across Asia, including the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Northeast Asia and Australia-Sourcing for interviewees on tight deadlines-Producing packages for news segments

- Involved in the news monitoring process, specialising in Middle Eastern papers, for an electronically distributed in-house summary of global media coverage on the United Nations, Secretary-General and other officials, international developments and events that are of interest to the organisation and its work. - Involved in the news selection and writing process for two daily in-house news bulletins, summarising the top news headlines from around the world.- Involved in the 63rd UN DPI-NGO Conference in Melbourne, assisting in the registration process, generating participant statistics, welcoming speakers, and news monitoring.

SportsCenter- Assistant Producer for SportsCenter Asia and SportsCenter Week-in-Review, a daily 30-minute sports news programme, reaching 53,495,000 viewers in Malaysia, Singapore, India and Philippines.- Assistant Producer for the morning newsgathering team, serving all major news programmes including SportsCenter Asia, SportsCenter India, SportsCenter Hong Kong, SportsCenter Taiwan and Score Tonight.- Assisting in the news selection process, producing and voicing feature packages, writing and voicing sports news and highlights, video editing and creating graphics.- Presenting, producing and editing for SportsCenter Weekend Update (weekend news bulletin), SportsCenter Right Now (daily morning news bulletin) and Tiger half-time update (news bulletin during the Barclays Premier League half-time show).ESPNews- Part of the team that launched the 24-hour news channel in September ’09, currently broadcasted to Singapore, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.- Producing and editing news bulletins, writing, editing and voicing sports news and highlights.Mobile ESPN/SportsCenter Right Now on espnstar.com- Producing, presenting and editing up to nine individual video news bulletins a day for various new media platforms, including mobile news services and webcasts.

- Volunteer position in one of Ghana’s Central Region community television stations, imparting technological and news writing/producing skills to local staff- In charge of news planning, producing, managing assignments, shooting, video editing, script-writing, script-editing, field and ‘live’ studio presenting and voicing

Masters, International Relations

Communications, Journalism

Activities and Societies: News Editor of Nanyang Chronicle, Tennis