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Geneva, Ge, Ch

Geneva, Canton Of Geneva, Switzerland

Writing and editing English language content across all supports, primarily with regards to the brand’s partnerships in the world of sport (with athletes, events and governing bodies in tennis, golf, motor sport, sailing and equestrianism) and its initiatives in corporate social responsibility programmes including:• Articles and static content on its rolex.com and rolex.org websites• Texts and captions for the brand’s social media posts on the biggest platforms (Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Weibo, Youku)• Corporate communication (press releases, editorials, forewords)

Geneva Area, Switzerland

In charge of press releases, corporate and institutional content and internal communication • Write, publish and distribute to media outlets all press releases which come out of FIBA's headquarters; these are wide-ranging and include: announcing partnership agreements with some of the world's biggest brands (Nike, Tissot); summarizing the main takeaways from meetings of FIBA's leadership (Central Board, Executive Committee); officially confirming the winners of FIBA competitions; announcing of sanctions. • Monitor content about FIBA and/or of relevance to FIBA in global media thanks to online tools and with the help of carefully selected influencers in specific markets. • Write and edit speeches, forewords for top level officials.• Write and edit scripts for corporate events.• Oversee creation, publication and promotion of corporate and/or institutional content.• Piece together, ensure translation into French and Spanish and send out the FIBA Quarterly E-Mail which goes out to all FIBA staff across its headquarters and regional offices.Editor for FIBA's official website fiba.basketball• Overseeing content creation for FIBA's official website; this involves: o finding interesting topics, storylines and angleso assigning stories to a network of writers and collaboratorso managing a network of writers and collaborators to write and chase up contento budget management• Overseeing piecing together and sending out of the 'FIBA Daily Newsletter', a selection of the day's top stories, news, videos, which goes out to to subscribers from around the world. On-site editor and writer for FIBA official event websites• Editor and on-site writer for official websites of FIBA events, including flagship competitions such as the FIBA Basketball World Cup and FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup. • Editor and on-site writer/correspondent for FIBA websites at the Olympic Basketball Tournaments for Men and Women at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games.

Dublin, Ireland

- Worked on news, sports and features for the Independent News & Media PLC newspapers (‘Irish Independent’, ‘Sunday Independent’, ‘Evening Herald’ and ‘Herald AM’).

Serbia And Montenegro, Japan, Spain, Poland, Crete, Slovak Republic, France

- Leading correspondent at the European Championships (known as EuroBasket) in 2005, 2007 and 2009 for the official websites.- Leading correspondent at the 2006 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Japan for the official website.- Leading correspondent at a number of FIBA Europe’s youth tournaments.- In 2007, called upon by FIBA Europe to serve as the website's editor during the Preliminary Round of EuroBasket in Spain before joining the editorial team in Madrid to report on the Final Round of the competition.

London, United Kingdom

- Production assistant on the network’s monthly feature golf show ‘Living Golf’. - Contributed to the Sports Desk coverage of various events including the 2006 Ryder Cup.

Dublin, Ireland

- Worked on sports for the Irish edition of UK newspaper ‘The Daily Mail’.

Master'S Degree, Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree, History And English Literature