I am a Townsville based photographer documenting life around the North and wider Queensland region. Quite simply, I'm just a girl with a camera and a huge passion for visual storytelling.I enjoy rural, lifestyle and event photography.Visit www.zoethomas.com.au to view my current portfolio of work. Get in touch at hello@zoethomas.com.au.

- Create exciting and engaging photo, video and written content to be shared across multiple marketing platforms. - Plan and schedule the content creation calendar in line with production timelines and product launches.- Work with Business Development Manager to initiate creative ways to engage with, build brand recognition and serve our customers online.- Collaborate with the Antola team to define and grow brand identity and articulate that through visual and written content. - Manage Facebook and Instagram day-to-day activity (responding and engaging in real-time to messages, inquiries, and comments or directing them to relevant person where needed). - Answer and assist all customer service queries in a timely and professional manner.

Journalist at North Queensland Register based in Townsville.

• Scheduling, timetabling and maintenance of Occupational Therapists' Cliniko calendars and diaries.• Office administration: managing new and current client enquiries, answering emails and phone-calls in a timely manner, greeting clients in-clinic, invoicing, payment reconciliation in Xero, social media management, EDM Mailchimp management and ordering office supplies.

I previously worked as the Community Engagement Coordinator at Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors. The charity was established in 2002 by Steve and Terri Irwin as a way to include and involve other caring people in the protection of injured, threatened or endangered wildlife. Today, Wildlife Warriors has nine global conservation projects, three vast conservation properties and a loyal following of global donors and supporters. In my role, I was responsible for producing engaging communications to build positive brand awareness for Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors. This highly varied and engaging role includes: • Dealing directly with people connecting to the global charity via social media, newsletter, website content and face-to-face visitors to the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.• I am required to utilise a range of skills such as social media content curation, copywriting for EDM’s and web sites, digital fundraising campaign strategy, community engagement, customer service and not-for-profit administration.I was also responsible for supporting the Development Manager by undertaking fundraising projects including – management of digital campaigns, coordination of content across Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors website and other digital fundraising platforms, building email marketing campaigns, and driving the continued growth of the organisation’s digital communication channels, including social media.

I previously worked as a journalist at The Longreach Leader newspaper. Working within the editorial team my role included:• Researching, sourcing, interviewing and writing both news and feature articles for our weekly publication. • Taking accompanying photographs for those stories.• Attending a range of events within Outback Queensland and meeting with local communities to share the relevant issues and stories of our region.• Assisting in our social media presence and growth. Sharing stories and engaging audiences both in Queensland, and Australia, through different online platforms such as Instagram and Facebook.The paper proudly covers Outback Queensland including: Longreach, Winton, Barcaldine, Tambo, Blackall, Boulia, Diamantina, Hughenden and Barcoo regions.

• Assisting the Senior Media Buyer in buying commercial airtime across the Australian TV networks, radio campaigns and out of home campaigns. • Responsible for the implementation of traditional marketing activity, campaign management, post campaign reporting and identifying media efficiencies and success to ensure high ROI.• Provide day to day support on Youi’s sponsorship activity. • Buying TV campaigns in select markets with assistance from the Senior Media Buyer.• Assist in compiling and analysing media advertising proposals.• Ensure TV post analysis matching is completed in an accurate and timely manner.• Responsible for the timely and correct entry of media spend across all offline media and sponsorship activity.• Monitoring of media spend to ensure budgetary goals are achieved.• Reconciliation of media spends against monthly invoices.• Maintain the master media schedule with campaign spend, timings and audience size.

• Assisting the Media Buyers with TV buying in both the Metro and Regional Markets. Knowledge and understanding of the TV buying program BCC. Assortment of tasks in BCC including; reconciling played TV spots, running and organizing post reports, and also reach and frequency (R&F) schedules.• Assisting the Digital Marketing Specialist in all aspects of Digital Marketing through programs such as Google Analytics and Google DoubleClick for Advertisers. Running and updating client reports including attribution and reach reports. Currently being trained in Google Academy for Ads (DCM and DBM) and Google Analytics • Uploading/naming digital creative/specs on relevant online ad-server platforms (DCM).• Sign, organise and update invoices for all team members in the Advertising Database.• Writing blog posts for the Youi website.• Assisting with the 2018 Youi/NRL Sponsorship – monitoring and managing the online Youi Fan of the Week Competition. Communicating and organizing prizes with winners. Creating, writing and sending weekly EDM’s through the online program Braze. • Thorough use and knowledge of Facebook Business Manager. Setting up and writing social posts online for relevant campaigns. Setting-up and running sponsored posts on Facebook. • As part of Youi’s sponsorship of the 2017 Rugby League World Cup, I ran a social competition on both the Youi AU and NZ Facebook pages. My responsibilities included writing and posting the competition updates each week, creating, targeting and managing sponsored posts, and liaising with the winners to ensure they received their prizes. As a result of the competition, I successfully helped to drive more traffic to both Facebook pages and increase the number of individuals liking the online Youi pages.• Assisting the Marketing Manager in her daily role. Responding to emails, organising meetings, booking meeting rooms and greeting clients.

I completed a six month contract at WIN News Television Station on the Sunshine Coast. In the News Assistant role I assisted the weather presenter in preparing the weather segment for every QLD bulletin each night. I also helped to autocue during the recordings of every QLD bulletin. During this period I learnt the fundamentals of television journalism from chasing stories, interviewing, filming, script writing, editing and putting the final product to air. I also furthered my knowledge in the importance of utilising social media to connect with the public to share stories.