Muriah Umoquit Email & Phone Number

Niagara Falls, ON, CA

Remote

• Awarded the Chris Silagy Prize, which is given to an individual who has made an "extraordinary" contribution to the work of Cochrane.
• Nominated for the COVID-19 Influencers 2023 Social Media Award and the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communiations
• In 2023, I grew Cochrane's Instagram following by 22% and their LinkedIn group by a whopping 92%.

Remote

• Awarded the 2022 Development Directorate Team Player Award.
• Content and campaign creation for website with over 3 million views per month and social media channels with over 306K followers.
• Building collaboration with aligned external organizations and influencers for wider exposure and brand awareness.
• Direct lead on several strategic high-profile projects, including World Evidence-based Healthcare Day and Cochrane’s partnership with Wikipedia.

Remote

• Awarded the 2019 Cochrane Outstanding Contribution Award.
• Awarded the 2020 Cochrane Collaborative Campion Award.
• SOCIAL MEDIA - Lead all on social media strategy, content management, performance measurement, and platform management across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube for Cochrane and.
• WRITING – Content and campaign creation that is optimized for individual platforms and audiences; includes interview and news items (Drupel), community story highlights, and newsletters (MailChimp).
• ANALYTICS - Analyzed metrics related to social media and engagement, web-site traffic (Google Analytics), a/b testing, and survey data, while making sound recommendations for improvements.
• COMMUNITY BUILDING - Slack workspace owner for the central team and larger community, run a private Facebook and LinkedIn group, engage and answer questions via social media dms, and active social media listening..

Markham, ON, Canada

• Federally incorporated company specializing in advisory services in knowledge translation, stakeholder management, and research methods (interviews, surveys, and qualitative analysis).
• Meeting the project-based and long term research needs of academic, public, and private sector clients.
• Marketing management of Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter content based on stakeholder analytics. Contributed to a successful $192,000 Kickstarter and implemented a successful brand awareness and new product.
• Identified newsworthy topics to produce press releases, website content, and blog posts to build brand awareness and community support while meeting the business goals and generating leads.
• Event planning, advertising, and management for a private company’s workshops and booths at an international convention and at local special events. Used social media to drive booth traffic and collaborated with.
• Conducting and analyzing systematic literature reviews, media reviews, document analysis, archival research, interviews, focus groups, surveys, and ethnographic fieldwork.

• Oversaw the rebranding of websites and all assets (logos, templates, guidelines) while engaging the diverse, global community on messaging and encouraging uptake.
• Writing, maintaining, co-ordinating new and existing content including for Cochrane.org and the Cochrane community website and co-ordinating approvals of this content.
• Co-ordinating project updates for the Cochrane community.
• Managing information flows from CET to Cochrane email lists.
• Assisting in co-ordinating the day-to-day operations, as laid out by the content strategy, including updating the content calendar.
• Providing co-ordination and support to a wider global communications network within Cochrane.

Toronto, Canada

• Demonstrated strong communication, time management, planning and organizational skills through the coordination of consensus workshops and international meetings with project and community stakeholders.
• Prepared research progress reports for grant and ethic renewals, meeting reports, summary reports, newsletter summaries, and peer-reviewed journal articles based on ongoing and completed research activities.
• Conducted several systematic reviews using multiple health publication databases and completed an extensive environmental scan which included grey literature.
• Developed strong leadership skills by overseeing and supervising work of staff members and summer students on various research projects.

Toronto

• Involved in all aspects of the department's research processes; grant application, ethics approval/renewal, research design, implementation, management, and analysis of data.
• Senior researcher on multiple qualitative research projects who trained and directed team members.
• Lead for various internal knowledge exchange efforts: established bi-weekly working group to promote internal knowledge exchange, launched a Lunch and Learn Speaker Series with LiveMeeting, and created internal and.
• Knowledge translation and leadership Module Coordinator for the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation's Executive Training for Research Application Program. Contributed to curriculum design, prepared course.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Primary qualitative researcher on review and evaluation of Legal Aid Ontario’s funding to ethic-specific centers; designed, conducted, and analyzed telephone interviews and inperson focus groups with stakeholders at.
• Focus group and stakeholder meeting management; booking, conducting, meeting minutes, presentation of findings in reports to various stakeholders.

Toronto

• Reviewed and edited questionnaires to be conducted over the telephone and tested survey skip logic.
• Transcription and data entry of closed and open-ended questions.
• Maintained databases of sensitive and confidential information.

Masters Of Arts, Sociology, Graduated With A G.P.A. Of 3.9

-Full McMaster Graduate Scholarship with Teaching Assistant positions in Media Studies and Sociology -Completed graduate seminars on.

Honors Bachelor Of Arts, Specialist; Sociology, Graduated With Distinction

-University of Toronto Entrance Scholarship -Related courses include Social Statistics, Qualitative Methods in Social Research.