Sarah Foster Email & Phone Number

Ontario, Canada

Tiverton, Ontario, Canada

Tiverton, Ontario, Canada

— Oversee the management of the on call Emergency Response Organization— Oversee the planning and execution of drills and exercises— Develop Bruce Power’s five-year drill and exercise schedule and oversee the development of each single-year calendar

Tiverton, Ontario, Canada

— Managed the business of the EM, Plans Section— Provided oversight on evaluations of drills and exercises— oversight of procedural and document updates— Participated in a number of working groups with external stakeholders including the province

— Managed the business of the EM, Plans Section— Provided oversight on evaluations of drills and exercises— Created a strategy to update document suite

Tiverton

— Lead on Severe Winter Weather program simplification and update— Served as Lead Evaluator on station drills and exercises— Updated evaluation criteria, including individual position evaluations and final drill report for station drills— Provided oversight on electronic data program— Served as Planning Advisor in the Emergency Management Centre as part of.

Kincardine, Ontario, Canada

• Increased employee safety education and awareness by co- ordinating the monthly safety and business performance video, developing key messages that support Bruce Power’s No. 1 value of Safety First.
• Managed relationships with a number of clients and stakeholders across site to develop messaging and communications through a variety of mediums including: video, print and face-to-face communications.
• Identified potential communication opportunities by using various internal reporting databases.
• Broadened my experience by familiarizing myself with the station, where I was a communications specialist for eight months.

I was the chair of the Marketing and Communications committee for the WiN Global 2021 conference hosted by WiN Canada. I oversaw the marketing and communications material for the conference, which was supposed to be held in 2020, but was postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic.

Tiverton, ON

As the chair of the Bruce chapter of NA-YGN, I managed the chapter board, planned events for our members, and looked at ways to grow the chapter to beyond the Bruce Power site.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Developed appropriate messaging and company positioning on various issues including, but not limited to: billing inquiries, customer service concerns and product information.
• Increased Rogers’ neutral and positive share of voice online by managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders including, but not limited, other internal departments, bloggers, and customers.
• Identified new technology and ways to communicate with customers in the social space by introducing live blogs, Twitter chats and Google Hangouts to the Rogers content calendar.
• Increased Rogers’ social media followers, specifically on Twitter.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed OpenFile’s main social media accounts, growing follower and fan bases by hundreds on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
• Launched OpenFile on new social networks, such as Instagram and Pinterest, where the follower base increased due to active participatory journalism, such as weekly photo challenges.
• Increased Twitter followers by creating a regular Twitter chat with readers based off of a different OpenFile story each week.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Increased employee participation in social media by developing best-practices and facilitating how-to workshops.
• Educated employees on expectations and responsibilities in using social media platforms.
• Understood the various ways to tell a story to a reader (e.g. traditional words, photo galleries, social media), employing the correct way depending on the story.

Select stories and layout pages for daily papers across the Sun Media chain.

Wrote headlines, decks and cutlines for both online copy and page copy. Worked under tight deadlines with ease. Strengthened editing skills by working with raw staff and wire copy.Broke stories, such as the Toronto propane explosion and the 2008 York University strike.

Wrote stories pertaining to Ontario university students and about issues concerning Ontario university students.

Wrote stories that concerned the students and residents around York University;Helped volunteers to write their stories;Assigned stories to volunteers;Edited copy each week and helped with layout.

Laid out and edited the sports section.Took photos and wrote 7-10 stories for each weekly edition.Wrote a weekly column, Simply Sarah.Strengthened relationships in the community by attending and covering local events.

Wrote for the youth section, alt.specAlso wrote sports, entertainment and news stories.