Sarah Elder-Chamanara Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta

Calgary, Canada Area

Madame Premier creates political clothes for political people.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Crisis management, negotiator, personal chef, cleaner, sleep consultant, boss, emotional support person, teacher, food consultant, personal shopper, constant multi-tasker, driver.Working 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Tall Poppies PR is a boutique firm offering content development, event planning and graphic design. 10% of the time spent on any project Tall Poppies PR is hired for is given back to individual women and women’s groups that cannot otherwise afford public relations help.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

An simple and elegant website that let’s Calgarians find out who is running for public office.

Calgary, Alberta

She Stole My Style is a lifestyle blog.

Calgary, Alberta

• Engaged in government and community relations in Alberta and British Columbia.
• Responsible for daily media monitoring to proactively identify issues and opportunities.
• Led the implementation of a social media tool.
• Responsible for strategic social media content development to further business interests by creating a community presence online.
• Responsible for research, report writing and special projects on a broad variety of topics in the waste management field and provincial public policy including the development and analysis of strategic positions and.

Fort Mcmurray, Alberta

• Responsible for planning, co-coordinating, executing and facilitating a three day retreat and monthly learning days for 30 adults to meet the strategic goals and mission of the organization in developing active.
• Acted as the key contact to program participants, alumni, mentors and committee members in promotion of the organizations mission and vision statements.
• Organized and implemented the first ever training session specifically for volunteer community program mentors and coaches to ensure greater accountability and consistency of desired outcomes to participants.
• Responsible for the organization of monthly board meetings including the development of board meeting agendas.
• Responsible for budget management and administration of budget.
• Led and implemented strategic tactics for issue and media management, community engagement and stakeholder outreach through social and traditional media.

Victoria, British Columbia

• Provided high-level political analytical policy and strategic advice to the Minister, Executive Council (Cabinet), and Office of the Premier and Members of the Legislative Assembly.
• Ensured public policy development aligns with corporate priorities and objectives set by Cabinet.
• Responsible for planning, co-coordinating and executing province wide ministerial tours and events and preparing speeches, news releases and social media.
• Acted as liaison to other provincial, national and international levels of Government including accompanying the Minister to China as part of the Canadian Minister's of Education Council for the Second High Level.
• Responsible for managing multi-million dollar funding requests and coordinating cross-government responses, stakeholder engagement, written and oral briefings involving sophisticated senior leaders.
• Led and implemented strategic plans for issue and media management, community engagement and stakeholder outreach.

• Provided high-level political analytical policy and strategic advice to the Minister, Executive Council (Cabinet), and Office of the Premier and Members of the Legislative Assembly.
• Ensured public policy development aligns with corporate priorities and objectives set by Cabinet.
• Responsible for planning, co-coordinating and executing province wide ministerial tours and events and preparing speeches, news releases and social media.

• Provided high-level political analytical policy and strategic advice to the Minister, Executive Council (Cabinet), and Office of the Premier and Members of the Legislative Assembly. Ensured public policy development.
• Implemented and led progressive client focused correspondence response system that resulted in significant savings to taxpayers by reducing the standard response time for letters to the Minister by by 62%.
• Generated standard response templates for reoccurring issues and reduced the number of levels of approval for correspondence from a 42-step process to 15.
• Reduced the annual cost of all correspondence by 80%, achieved savings of $203,000 and an estimated 375 hours of staff time.

• Provided high-level political analytical policy and strategic advice to the Minister, Executive Council (Cabinet), and Office of the Premier and Members of the Legislative Assembly.
• Ensured public policy development aligns with corporate priorities and objectives set by Cabinet.
• Responsible for the creation of content for an e-newsletter to highlight the work of the Minister of State in the riding as MLA.
• Engaged active listening and crisis communications skills when dealing with the public facing childcare hardships.

• Created analytical research documents for the use of Members of the Legislative Assembly, Cabinet and Premier.
• Developed legislative support materials for use in the Legislature as well as public events including statements and speeches.
• Identified issues and drafted material daily to provide strategic direction for the preparation of Cabinet in question period.