Tracey Walker Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Leading a multi-disciplinary team in strategic communication, community engagement, citywide disaster communications, issues management, marketing and brand management, digital media, design, events, and tourism attraction and development for Redland City Council.• Led citywide Citizen's Advisory Panel (Level 4 Collaborate on IAP2 Public Participation Spectrum).• Delivered new destination brand “Redlands Coast” for Redland City after consultation with more than 5000 residents and visitors.• Led development and implementation of citywide wayfinding strategy including dual Aboriginal naming of suburbs and locations, believed to be a Queensland-first.• Annually deliver management of more than 150 face-to-face community engagement activities and more than 40 events including large-scale citywide community festivals.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Led a team of more than 80 communication, engagement, events and marketing specialists across five portfolios - Education (schools), Training (TAFE institutes) Early Childhood Education and Care (kindergartens), Arts and Employment. • Led communication, engagement, marketing, projects and events units for one of Queensland's largest government departments, including setting the direction for the department's media, communication, sponsorship, stakeholder and community engagement, events and marketing activities. • Managed web services, media management, TAFE and Kindy call centres, ministerial speeches and media release, crisis communication, community and stakeholder engagement, media partnerships publications, graphic design, sponsorship, brand management, large-scale events. • Led the annual Creative Generation - State Schools Onstage, Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Arts, Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Instrumental Music (MOST), statewide awards programs including the Queensland Training Awards, Showcase Awards for Excellence in Schools, Premier's Reading Challenge and My Favourite Teacher Awards.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Delivered communications collateral to the Office of the Minister and Director-General.• Managed the department's programs and events, including more than 50 annual events.• Provided strategic advice to the Director, Director-General and Office of the Minister on media issues, communication and marketing.• Managed a team of 20 communication specialists.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Managed the communications and marketing activities of Arts Queensland, with a team of five staff.• Managed the daily activities of the Marketing and Communication Unit.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Writing and editing for a dual language suite of Indian magazines in London.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• The Courier-Mail, Brisbane – education reporter, general reporter, columnist.• News Ltd Sydney Interstate Bureau - writing major Sydney stories for publication in daily News Limited publications in Australia including Melbourne Herald Sun, Adelaide Advertiser, The Courier-Mail, Hobart Mercury, West Australian and Adelaide Advertiser.• London News International Bureau (casual) - reporting on major UK news stories for News International’s 21 major publications in Australia, Fiji and New Guinea including The Australian, Herald Sun and Sydney Telegraph Mirror.