Maria Cheney Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships with industry associations and additional strategic partners. This includes managing partnership agreements and ensuring sponsorship entitlements are delivered and effectively leveraged.Also responsible for increasing brand awareness of the Club Plus Super profile and exposure through its involvement in a number of corporate and member-based networking events.- Managing and maintaining strong partnerships with industry associations and strategic partners.- Managing partnership agreements and ensuring sponsorship entitlements are delivered.- Ensure that the Club Plus Super brand is promoted in the best possible way at each event, making sure that key stakeholders are engaged in the Club Plus Super message.- Work collaboratively with the Member Experience Team and Marketing Team on campaigns, communications and video content.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for providing executive administrative support to the Custody & Fund Services Lead for Australia and New Zealand, the APAC Custody & Fund Services Platform Lead and the broader Technology team.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for providing executive administrative support to eight team members in the Natural Resources team within the Investment Banking Division.

Parental Leave

Sydney, Australia

In this role, I was responsible for managing the implementation and administration of the organisation’s sponsorship program. This included managing a multi-million-dollar annual sponsorship budget.Responsibilities- Managing the sponsorship program including negotiations, agreement renewals and budgeting.- Building and maintaining sponsor relationships with Community Partners, charities, community services, festivals and sporting associations.- Coordinating and marketing the sponsorship program, generating new initiatives and ensuring sponsorship entitlements are delivered.- Development and coordination of an annual sponsorship plan including nominated activities/events.- Coordination and development of materials (letters, editorial, brochures, merchandise, advertisements) to assist in the implementation of communication requirements for the sponsorship program.- Represented ClubsNSW at various sponsorship activities and events.- Identifying and recommending new sponsorship activities or events including improvements to existing programs.- Produced a monthly board report outlining all sponsorship activities including potential opportunities for ClubsNSW.Achievements- Promoted from Sponsorship and Events Coordinator to Community Partnerships Executive.- Expanded the Community Partnerships program by doubling the number of Community Partners from three in 2012 to six in 2013 and further increasing the program to eleven partners in 2015.- Negotiated and secured new partnerships with Surf Life Saving NSW and the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Games.- Solely organised a successful boardroom breakfast which was attended by The Hon. Mike Baird, MP which resulted in positive feedback from the Department of Premier and Cabinet. - Solely organised a successful boardroom lunch which was hosted by Ita Buttrose AO.

Sydney, Australia

Working within a small team, I was responsible for the coordination of three annual large scale events as well as a number of smaller events. I was also responsible for coordinating the organisation’s sponsorship program.Key Events:• Conference and Trade Expo - 3 day event, 1400 delegates and 2 day 100+ exhibitor Trade Expo- Managed various elements including speaker and delegate liaison, registration, transport, partner activities and event promotion. - Expo stand sales, production, entertainment program and marketing to both exhibitors and visitors.- Created and implemented a promotional plan to increase delegate attendance and exhibitor sales.• The Awards for Excellence Program, including 20 different categories, culminating in a presentation dinner for 1200 guests- Assisted with developing and distributing communications for the program including nomination forms, website copy and any promotional materials.- Managed ticket sales- Assisted with designing and implementing an event theme.- Provided administrative support for the judging process including travel bookings.- Stage management.• NSW Chef’s Table Culinary Competition - 12 finalists and 12 finalist events culminating in an Awards Dinner.- Coordinated and managed the competition program.- Marketing and promoting the competition with a focus on increasing club participation.- Recruitment and management of the competition judges.- Created and implemented a promotional plan to increase the awareness of the program and increase number of entries. Sponsorship Program- Coordination and administration of the sponsorship program including negotiations, agreement renewals and budgeting.- Coordinate and market the sponsorship program generating new initiatives and ensuring sponsorship entitlements are achieved.- Liaising with and maintaining sponsor relationships with Community Partners, charities, community services, festivals and sporting associations

Manly

Responsible for the administration of the public relations campaigns of clients such as The Wales Tourist Board, South African Tourism, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Wanaka Ski Resort, Conservation Corporation Africa, Tourism Snowy Mountains and Manly Surf School.Responsibilities- Coordination of individual and group medial familiarisation trips (international and domestic). This involved conception of purpose as well as liaison with clients, tourist boards and airlines. Liaison with invited media and itinerary logistics.- Client liaison: Daily communication with clients via email, phone and in person.- Media liaison: Daily communication with a broad range of Australian media organisations including major radio, television, online and print media providers. Pitching story ideas and managing enquiries.- Attendance at a monthly networking lunch for the Australian Society of Travel Writers.- Coordinating product launches, networking lunches, dinners and cocktail functions for a broad range of clients.- Updating and maintaining media and contact databases and monitoring media coverage for clients Achievements - Hosting and leading an overseas media familiarisation trip to Wales as a representative of Five Star PR and the Wales Tourist Board. This trip included media representatives from New Zealand, including New Zealand Herald on Sunday, New Zealand Women’s Weekly, NZ Life & Leisure and the Dominion Post. This familiarisation resulted in four positive media articles.- Hosting and leading a media familiarisation trip to the Snowy Mountains as a representative of Five Star PR and Tourism Snowy Mountains. This trip included media representatives of Country Style, Australian Senior, Two Wheels, BusinessWriters, and 2UE and resulted in positive media articles.

Public Relations Certificate Iv

Undertaking marketing activities Promote innovation and change Apply principles of professional practice in the PR Industry and contribute.

Certificate Iii In Advertising And Marketing

Marketing fundamentals Advertising and promotions management Buyer behaviour and sales skills and sales management

Certificate Iii In Business (Office Administration) With Distinction

Certificate Ii In Business (Office Administration)