Tom Watson Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Key conduit between the NSW Government and WaterNSW on a large array of matters relating to parliament, Cabinet, Executive Council, governance, legal and other;
• Work directly with the office of the NSW Minister for Water on matters including contentious and current issues, Ministerial briefs, correspondence and parliamentary material (including capability in using PowerBI);
• Management of contentious issues on behalf of the organisation, leading agency responses on behalf of the organisation, attendance at operational meetings, weather & storage reporting;
• Extensive work (Government Relations & Communications) on one of NSW's biggest infrastructure projects, the Warragamba Dam Wall Raising;
• Contact point for WaterNSW with Members of Parliament, including regular briefing of MPs on water issues impacting their portfolio;
• Current member of the WaterNSW IPART 2025 Pricing Submission Customer Engagement Team, working to consult with customers and stakeholders;

Sydney, Australia

• Advising and briefing the Minister regarding public communications, policy development and major speeches.
• Coordinate and leading on proactive, reactive and crisis media responses for the Minister’s office and managing media announcements.
• Managing and formulating Ministerial strategic messaging including the development of media releases, social media, correspondence and talking points.
• Assisting the Minister in preparation for estimate committees, parliament question time, COAG forums and high-level meetings with the private sector and NGO sectors, members of parliament, and the public service.

Sydney, Australia

• Coordinate and leading on proactive, reactive and crisis media responses for the Minister’s office and managing media announcements.
• Advising and briefing the Minister regarding public communications, policy development and major speeches.
• Managing and formulating Ministerial strategic messaging on affordable housing including the development of media releases, social media, correspondence and talking points.
• Assisting the Minister in preparation for estimate committees, parliament question time, COAG forums and high-level meetings with the private sector and NGO sectors, members of parliament, and the public service.
• Implementation of major government infrastructure projects including the nation’s largest affordable housing building program, Communities Plus and the Nation's first Government-led 'Build-to-Rent' site.
• Leading negotiation and liaison with the Federal Government and other states and territories on a new National Housing and Homelessness Agreement (the NHHA), signed in 2018.

Sydney, Australia

• Implementation of the ‘Living Well: A Strategic Plan for Mental Health in NSW 2014-2024’ reforms, involving liaison with senior leaders of government agencies and NGOs to ensure policy and procedural reforms were.
• Planned and managed major policy and legislative announcements with the Minister, the Premier and other members of Cabinet for national and state media markets across all mediums of communication.
• Conducted research and advised the Minister on public policy for the Mental Health portfolio.
• Wrote Ministerial speeches on social policy which were delivered in parliament and at major events.

Sydney, Australia

• Undertook business development strategies focused on major accounting firms, driving growth in new and existing markets.
• Undertook business development trips in capital and regional cities across Australia to meet existing and potential clients, resulting in new business opportunities and relationships.
• Compiled market research and intelligence into the micro and macro factors affecting the Insolvency Industry in order to gain business leads and understand market dynamics.
• Management of client accounts including large-scale payment distributions, contact centre services, creditor meetings and record keeping.

Sydney, Australia

• Directly briefed the Link Market Services Chief Executive Officer and Group Executive on key issues affecting the strategic, organisational and financial future of the business.
• Undertook operational tasks such as briefings and presentations to business unit management, client reviews, new business administration, marketing and research.
• Worked on corporate strategy planning involving the review of global and domestic acquisition opportunities, market intelligence and the management of internal and external business relationships.
• Travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa to review operations and business development scoping of wider Sub-Saharan Africa and company secretarial opportunities.
• Featured Speaker ‘The Office of the CEO’ Conference in Sydney in October 2011.

Sydney, Australia

Exclusive management of the Westpac Banking Corporation (WBC) account in liaising with the Westpac Company Secretariat and Investor Relations on maintenance of the WBC register and the Annual General Meeting;Dealing with the various listed and unlisted Westpac Managed Funds including the technicalities of unit pricing, quarterly distributions and.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

General office duties while I was in full-time study.

Bachelor, Economics; Economics And Commercial Law

Activities and Societies: Sydney University Touch FootballEconomics Commercial Law

Graduate Diploma Of Divinity, Theology/Theological Studies

Activities and Societies: Graduate Diploma of Divinity

Higher School Certificate