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Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Providing ADKARⓇ based change management expertise and and GROWⓇ based coaching for organisations and individuals who face or want to instigate change in their worlds.

• Key Responsibilities
• Technology investment stream transformation
• Drive change leadership capability and self-healing change management capability uplift
• Drive enterprise change heat map initiative
• Change Community of Practice set up
• Portfolio change management & coaching

Sydney, Australia

• Key Responsibilities
• Driving transition to Agile delivery across one of NBN’s largest business stakeholders for multimillion-dollar technology investment programs.
• Designed and executed change management framework and tool aligned to ADKAR®, Agile & SAFe for IT roadmap delivery to drive business readiness and to realise scale and optimisation targets, reporting to executive forums.
• Designed and executed related robust and meaningful portfolio governance and real-time reporting to drive change management accountability and business readiness.
• Enhancing process improvement across various technologies business enablement to realise process excellence and delivery efficiencies. Driving change management as part of self-healing organisation targets.
• Supporting the business with change management expertise and advice, coaching, problem solving and stakeholder coordination across the Agile lifecycle to lift organisational change capability and to drive business.

Sydney, Australia

• Key Responsibilities
• Held accountability for robust Change Management framework, governance and reporting across multimillion-dollar portfolio of over 35 concurrent programs to drive business readiness and benefits realisation for.
• Provided change management coaching and advice to the business to uplift change management capability across department’s projects and programs.
• Managing stage gate and change management submissions to executive forums.Key Achievements
• Developed change management tools and templates for IT delivery for each stage of change
• Embedded change management methodology and tools into the PMO stage gating framework and submissions to executive forums.

Sydney, Australia

• Responsible for coordinating the organisational changes framework for employee engagement: planned and developed the change communication framework and reform processes; increased staff awareness, engagement and.
• Authored the Office’s strategic approach, ensured strategic business planning and cascaded this across the organisation to increase the awareness and understanding of the new vision and strategy for internal and.

New Delhi Area, India

• Key Responsibilities
• Managed the South Asia region’s communication and advocacy teams in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
• Co-ordinated and managed strategic communications, advocacy and international media relations in South Asia.
• Provided strategic communication advice and support to the regional head of delegation, country delegations and national societies. Key Achievements
• Enhanced the IFRC’s and national societies’ influencing power in the region in line with organisational goals.
• Strengthened IFRC’s visibility and profile in the region by strategically documenting and disseminating the lessons learnt and success stories with partners.

New Delhi, India

• Developed a national child protection advocacy strategy to enforce laws and policies. The goals were the elimination of child marriage, child labour, violence against children and to increase the use of family based.
• To support the child protection advocacy strategy, produced advocacy tools for policy-makers. Wrote feature stories and took photos from the field for UNICEF India web site.
• Provided technical advice to four pilot states to roll out the advocacy action plans on child protection in order to learn from the pilot states and to transform the advocacy strategy into a national action plan.
• IKEA Foundation has a partnership with UNICEF. To mobilise funds for the following five years I produced print and video materials highlighting UNICEF’s major achievements within the past 10 years of the partnership.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

• Coordinated, managed and implemented the UN Tanzania’s inter-agency advocacy campaigns on gender for policy change and enforcement (Beijing+15, Economic Justice and Livelihoods, Climate Change and Biodiversity.
• Wrote advocacy briefs on each campaign for policy and decision makers and human interest stories from the field for the UN Tanzania web site.
• Organized media field trips and pitched stories to media on each campaign topic.
• Produced the content for the new UNICEF Tanzania web site on variety of programme areas and operations through detailed literature review, research, data analysis, writing and selecting appropriate images with captions.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

• Developed and wrote UNDP Tanzania country office’s first communications strategy for each programme area along with recommendations for improved internal communications.
• Coordinated external and internal communications, media relations and production of publications; wrote advocacy statements and press materials.
• Organized the launches of UNDP's Human Development Report and Election Support project.
• Provided communication support and advice to UNDP’s reform process and change management.
• Designed the ‘UN in Tanzania’ web site structure, produced the content, updated the intranet and internet sites with news stories and in-depth articles of the impact of UN in Tanzania.
• Coordinated the production of the UN Tanzania branded communication and advocacy materials.

Thailand

Coordinated the documentation of Finnish Red Cross’ tsunami recovery programme’s impact in Thailand with B roll material, web videos, photos, news and feature stories. Supervised a cameraman and an interpreter.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

• In charge of internal communication, media relations and advocacy. Developed the country office’s first communication plan with key messages, channels, audiences, budget, timeline and monitoring components.
• Developed a UN joint communication plan on maternal and newborn health with government, civil society and other partners as part of the UN reform programs.
• Driving the communications of the UN reform with the UN secretariat aiming to enhance UN agencies' effectiveness and efficiency in Tanzania.
• Established and maintained a national media network and database for reproductive health issues. Organized media field trips in Tanzania and to South-Africa.
• Managed media events, high level visits and celebrity collaboration.
• Wrote and produced communication and advocacy materials: press releases, news and feature stories, talking points, statements, Q&As, posters, brochures, photographs. Supervised 1-4 communication consultants.

Helsinki, Finland

• Developed and implemented advocacy and communication plans for several nationwide fundraising campaigns and programme areas, also with private sector partners.
• Launched the FRC’s first joint emergency communication planning and training process with all 12 FRC districts and improved the coherence of strategic planning in the headquarters, in the districts and in 200 FRC.
• Acted as a media spokesperson; organized media field trips to Africa, Asia and Latin America; wrote web stories, communication and media materials.
• Conducted communication training to senior management as well as to domestic and international delegates.

Helsinki, Finland

• Domestic and foreign TV news stories, bulletins and feature stories for national TV news.
• Generated story ideas, did background research and analysis and wrote scripts for current affairs morning show.

Helsinki, Finland

Wrote articles for three magazines (Gloria, Gloria home, Gloria food & wine) of large scale of topics: life style, personal interviews, book and movie reviews, travelling, design, food, beauty, health, sports. Brainstorming with the editorial board about the magazine's concept and content. Photo shoots, their planning and set ups with the photographer.

Helsinki, Finland

Publicity and articles about European Comissions INFO 2000 multimediaprogram for customer magazines. Translations from English to Finnish.

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