Mary Bell Email & Phone Number

Greater Sydney Area

Supporting the delivery of the Cooling the Schools climate cooling tree planting program in schools

Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

★ Coordinate the development, implementation of bespoke learning activities to encourage environmental education and Junior Landcare values of being Aware, Active and Empowered.★ Design the Educator Hub as a vibrant communication centre for educators to increase their experience provide value in the Junior Landcare Learning Centre.★ Coordinate the development, implementation and review of a disaster resilience pilot project linking Landcare groups and schools to build community and stability.★ Source organisations to link and be a part of the Junior Landcare Community for relationship building and encouraging collaboration and joint endeavours.

Sydney, Australia

Mentor, counsel performance and support trainers in early years STEM professional development workshops; Australia-wide.★ Manage and monitor professional development accreditation.★ Facilitation of Little Scientists early years STEM professional development workshops★ Development of online workshop audience evaluation and analysis ★ Quality framework development and continual improvement processes ★ Internal communication development to build partner connections★ Customer satisfaction planning★ Support trainers on all aspects of the curriculum, teaching methods and leadership. ★ Organise, develop and collaborate to develop an online training process and associated quality evaluation processes.★ Prepare and maintain training administrative records and statistical reports. ★ Develop and plan enhanced training programs

Sydney, Australia

Develop and deliver curriculum-linked lessons to 20,000 students per year at The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and Blue Mountains Botanic Gardens Mount Tomah. This included preschools, primary and high schools, ESL, TAFE and university students..★ Lead digital technology to develop new in-situ and virtual lessons and engage national audiences.★ Mentor manage and support 30 casual education officers and build their expertise. Establish complex rosters and manage the budget to ensure delivery of lessons to large client base at two gardens in situ and virtually.★ Build strong relationships with corporate sponsors.★ Reinvigorated offerings to incorporate the new Australian Curriculum to attract new audiences★ Build RBG school programs from 13,000 to 20,000 students annually★ Created an online classroom of resources to build capacity of remotely based casual education staff to develop their skills and improve lesson quality★ Design and delivery of training solutions and website development.

Sydney, Australia

Deliver walks talks and tours to community and school groups within Sydney Harbour National Park. Assist with visitor inquiries and experiences and stakeholder engagement.

Sydney, Australia

RANDWICK CITY COUNCIL 2010 - 2013Key responsibilities• Design, develop and deliver new primary lesson program based on the Water Wise and Energy Wise Trails at Randwick Sustainability Hub incorporating energy and water saving technologies. • Contribute to the development of interpretative signs and interactive displays for the Water Wise and Energy Trail designed to engage the community with sustainability issues Achievements • In its inaugural year (2011) - 900 primary students attended water or energy-based lessons.

North Ryde

Create a multidisciplinary Wildlife Management Postgraduate program for postgraduate students using distance, online and on campus learning.Consulting with industry partners and academics for partnerships and capstone industry experience in the development stage. Develop and implement a nationwide survey to collect data to guide the curriculum development of the postgraduate degree.

Sydney

I managed two outreach education programs - Museum in a Box and Museum on the Road. I was responsible for a $150,000 per year budget and a reaching a regional audience of over 320,000 people a year. I also had responsibility for the management, coordination, maintenance and loaning of the education collection which included over 12,000 natural and cultural specimens valued at over 8 million dollars. I also was responsible for the management, direction, training, supervision and staff development of four staff.

Fairfield City Farm is an educational and recreational venue. My role was to establish and manage an environmental education program as a successful new initiative for primary, secondary and tertiary students through grants from Commonwealth Landcare funding. Responsible for budget and completion of reports to Commonwealth funding body.

Sydney, Australia

Pulpit Point Development Site Technical assistant at clean up of toxic waste site, including soil sampling, plant supervision, field survey and data entry.

Sydney, Australia

Preparing and conducting vacation activities including environmental games, interpretive activities and night spotlight walks. Presenting environmental film at local schools and retirement villages. Designing and organising displays for field shows. Compiling educational broadsheets and promotional posters. Writing press releases and letters to Municipal residents on environmental issues. Completion of soil landscape survey of the Ku-ring-gai Municipality. Aerial photograph interpretation, soil sampling, analysis of data, writing up of project, supervision of staff and computerisation of draft map.

Queanbeyan

Aerial photograph interpretation and subsequent fieldwork to compile soil erosion maps in the southeastern region of New South Wales. Writing articles and talking to community groups on soil conservation issues, assisting at field days and agricultural shows. Joint compilation of farm and work plans, supervision of earthmoving plant and survey as well as assisting with advice to landholders and public bodies on soil erosion problems. Working in conjunction with the CSIRO: collecting data for CSIRO-NASA Joint Scanner Project; coding Erosion Hazard Map using LUPLAN for a Technical Memorandum; Compiling land use and channel maps of Jerrabomberra Creek using aerial photograph interpretation for Division of Water and Land Resources, Burrinjuck Reservoir Sedimentation Project.

Bachelor Of Science, Geography (Land Management), Geography

Activities and Societies: Windsurfing Club Subjects completed • Statistics • Biology • Genetics • Introductory Ecology • Plant Structure.

Graduate Diploma In Geoscience (Applied Geomorphology), Geoscience (Applied Geomorphology)

Natural and managed Australian ecosystems Hydrology Applied Geomorphology Advanced Geomorphology Terrain Evaluation Environmental Law.

Diploma Of Primary Education, Primary Education

Environmental Education through Social Studies Mathematics Curriculum Studies K-6

Hsc

Primary Education