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Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia

Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia

Internal Communications Specialist for Lake Macquarie City Council.

Senior Communications Officer with Latrobe City Council. Primarily focused on bushfire and flood recovery, advocacy and media liaison.

Morwell, Victoria, Australia

Communications professional working on Latrobe Valley Authority's $85 million sports and community initiative.Key Responsibilities● Managing communications strategy and operations for an $85 million state government package.● Working across state government, local government and delivery partners to develop a coordinated communications approach on shared projects.● Website and social media management and content creation.● Developing and delivering on communications plans for major events, infrastructure projects and community programs in collaboration with key partners and stakeholders.● Producing high level written materials for a variety of audiences across a range of mediums including: media releases, web stories (internal and external), speech writing, social media, corporate reporting, internal brief writing, marketing pitches, post-event reporting and more.● Capturing and editing multimedia content for promotional purposes, including photo and video.● Working with a wide variety of internal and external partners on a range of major projects.● Managing media at events and public relations promotions.● Recording data and outcomes and reporting back to project control groups and boards.● Developing budgets and creative content for advertising and promotional campaigns.● Contributing to the development and implementation of objectives and the evaluation of major events and other activities.

Gippsland

Regional network television journalist and 2IC for WIN Gippsland covering general news and sport.Key Responsibilities● Researching and packaging engaging broadcast news stories across the Gippsland region.● Working to tight deadlines on copy, interviews, news updates, vision and voiceovers while managing travel time across a vast regional area. ● Managing a news team and working with head office to provide timely and engaging content and regular news break updates for daily broadcast.● Developing a vast array of key contacts and networks to generate ideas and news content.● Setting the agenda with creative stories based on public interest.● Presenting to camera in an audio-visual environment.● Generating content for social media and managing social media presence.● Tracking the 24/7 local, national and international news cycle.

Gippsland, Victoria

General news, sports reporting and sub-editing roles at award winning regional non-daily newspaper.Key Responsibilities● Senior print reporter for Latrobe Valley Express covering a range of rounds including: court, police, coal industry, forestry, health, sport, entertainment and general news.● Researching and packaging engaging print news stories relevant to the Latrobe Valley and surrounds.● Generating content for social media and website.● Creating and maintaining a broad network of contacts and stakeholders.● Interviewing and transcribing.● Sub-editing role for general news and sport.● Photography and photo editing.● Experience with newspaper layout and design.

Gladstone, Queensland

Sales in computers department. My role also included production of some advertising materials, store maintenance and creation of displays for products.

Gladstone

Sports, entertainment and general news reporter for the Observer. My role required the ability to plan, research, write, and co-ordinate The Observer’s sport section and regularly produce content for both general news and entertainment. I also gained experience in other areas of print production including: design, photography, appropriating content for web, and sub-editing duties.

Store person and customer service.

Work experience and professional placement with Herald Sport. Involved interviewing, observation, attending media events and writing stories, including several published works (April 2008 and September/October 2009).

Communications, Journalism And Public Relations

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